Thursday, May 7, 2015

POST ELECTION HOPE? or Hard work!

Victory in Europe Day!

Below is a copy of my thought for the day, for the day after the election... VE day! 

                Surprising as it may seem I am too young to remember victory in Europe day. My parents though have often spoken about it, the euphoria and the celebration following on of course from years of suffering. In terms of elections I am of the age when one day sticks in my memory: Tony Blair’s landslide election: euphoria again, for some at least! I can even remember the song: Things can only get better!
                This morning I doubt the country awakes to any real sense of euphoria, I imagine rather a dull relief that it’s all over, at one level at least.  Politics may not be our hope today, nor even memories of a major war in Europe, so what can stir us?
                As a church minister I regularly remember another historic day. I celebrate communion, I am in effect remembering ‘Good’ Friday: a day when a remarkable carpenter was murdered by nailing him to a cross! I realise just as with politics so our taste for religion and faith differ. Nevertheless, when an unjust execution is remembered 2000 years later as ‘good’, clearly something has been transformed. A sign of hope offered, that neither politics or death, nor even war has extinguished. The day after VE day there was still a hell of a lot of work to do. Today it’s the same; politics rarely offers a magic bullet for all our needs.  Hope for today and tomorrow has to begin in our hearts, in our attitudes, in our willingness to work together for a society where bad things get transformed into good. So that’s my thought for today. Yesterday was the day to vote, today is a day to get on with it, and sow some hope into the world by the way we smile and deal with whatever issues that we face.


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