Peter Blog a few random thoughts

The  other day I was in Pound land. I was directed to the self service tills. As I paid for my items. A voice came from the tills of Elvis Presley. First of all it really shocked me to hear him tell me to have a nice day but the other thing was it was extremely annoying. I complained to the shop steward who said that they were to have that voice until the end of October. I suspect that the next voice will be Santa or something like that. We have got used to self service tills and there is even a store run by Amazon that has no one in there that the whole shop is run by sensors and cameras called Amazon go. Both of these things have a sense of lack of human contact. They denote to us the lack of service.  The readings speak to us today of the possibility of being a servant. The old Testament from the book if Isiah shows us that Jesus was the suffering servant for us. He showed the depth of his love by suffering for humanity. Jesus gave his life because he loved us as the G...

There is one word that strikes me about what the rich young man says. He uses quite a lot the word I. What can I do to inherit eternal life he asks. I have done all this. The Rich young man was so caught up in himself and what he had achieved he could not see beyond the I.  He comes with pride to Jesus. It almost feels arrogant the way he asks Jesus the question.  The Ego is our biggest obstacle to God. When we are caught up with ourselves we find It so difficult to see beyond the ego. We come with our own sense of pride and our own sense of who we are we fail to see the world around us. We come with a sense of not realising that we do things with the help of God rather than on our own merits. This is why Jesus looked steadily at him and loved him. He saw beyond his ego, but the challenge of Jesus was deeper. He gave him something that for him was impossible to do. In one translation I read it did not say wealth but processions. This is an interesting point. For me it mak...