Issues with uploading content has meant setting up a new page. Please find all Thought for the Day on the new page on the side tab. The rest will remain here. Thank you for your time and patience. I sit on a number of committees; it comes with my roles and I have always hoped I make a difference. Sadly, often these committees are places where people talk, often beyond their understanding, many waffle in an attempt to look informed and at the end of meetings I often leave feeling we have achieved nothing.
As the old adage says, all talk, no action. Making a difference can be hard. Many procedures, build over years, have ensured those in places of authority can pretty much do what they want as long as they say the right things at these meetings. In faith it is often the same. The church has many committees where much is said, little is done and those in authority carry on as before.
Being a Christian can be similar, all talk and no action. We can say the right things, look like we are even doing the right things but actually never really act in the way God wants us to. Being a Christian is a life choice, one we need to make daily.
Across these few days that end October and start November, we remember. We remember the saints and martyrs of the past and we remember those we love but see no longer. Many traditions are rolled into these few days including the wonderful Mexican tradition of the Day of the dead where families take picnics to family graves and remember their dead together.
The Disney film Coco is an excellent example of this and the importance of remembering those in our past. There is a belief that over these couple of days the barrier between the heavens and the earth is lifted allowing the souls of the dead to return to their families while they remember. The importance of remembering is vital to this festival however we celebrate it. God has given us the ability to remember, to carry within us those who have been part of our lives even after they have gone from this earth.
