Enough is Enough

Text below from my Radio Bristol thought for today:              

  I’ve simply had enough of Christmas adverts? There are certain times of year when I really notice a massive disconnect between the ways of society, of which we are all a part and the message that I proclaim as part of my calling as a Christian.  Funnily enough Christmas is one of those times.  I announce week after week the message the angels brought to the agrarian night-watchmen: “you will find this babe wrapped in cloth and lying in a feeding tough.” Yet our Christmas has become a feeding frenzy of opulence and overindulgence, which many of us simply can’t afford.  Now please don’t get me wrong, I am no scrooge puritan humbug, any excuse for a party me, I love good food and I certainly enjoy a drink or two.  However, as the old drink driving campaign said: know your limits! Enough is enough.

                

Nelson Mandela also in a very different way realised enough was enough. He knew a system where people were judged by their colour and not by their personality was a perversion of reality. When he, along with many others, made his stand he liberated many white people along with bringing dignity and grace to those who in South Africa had become the underside of society.  Every person whether black ,white or coloured is of equal value and should be afforded equal dignity and rights.  I’m personally glad that he and others had had enough, that he was courageous enough to make his stand.

                So that is my thought for today, if you’ve had enough of something, especially if it’s something that robs others or yourself of dignity, make sure you too make your stand. Mandela proved that if together we stand for what’s right, the whole world really can change.