For a while, last year, I used to write an email to someone at the Herald when a particular piece struck me in any way, but the aforesaid magazines would pile up as I regularly fell behind with the task and anyway, what would the very nice Luke do with my comments, apart from, occasionally, and very kindly, replying.
It still happens that I read something which I really want to share, so where else should I do so than here on my very own blog where to my amazement, I see that nearly 8400 people have viewed my God-spot pages.
Re Chris Patten: final sentence of a review of his memoir, 'First Confession'
(He) "rose so high, served so well, and remained a decent, humane and faithful public servant." I like that.
Fr Matthew Pittam's column, "The pressure to be excellent" extolls what I like to call 'the glory of the ordinary'. So many of us today are made to feel that we have to 'jump through hoops' just to do our ordinary jobs. I think it's a really excellent article; well worth a read.
The same theme is taken up by Fr Ronald Rolheiser 'In praise of the ordinary' in his inimitable way. I would only change his last sentence, "There's a lot to be said for being a contented, little person, anchored in the rhythms of the ordinary." by removing the 'little'!
I liked Colin Brazier's column and there's a great anecdote from his 7 year old son's school diary; funny and human. It will make most parents (and teachers) smile.
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