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2CH Messages
Lift up your eyes
Alan Best - Sunday 19 February 2012
A few years ago I was hiking in the Royal National Park, south of Sydney. It was spring, and at that time, there were many wild flowers. As I walked ahead of one of my fellow hikers, I turned a corner in the track and there at my feet was a patch of flannel flowers. I commented, “Look at those, aren’t they beautiful.” My friend replied, “Yes, they’re great, but look up!” When I lifted my head, I saw that the hillside in front of me was completely covered with flowers. I had been so busy looking down at my feet as I walked, that I had seen only a few flowers – but I was surrounded by thousands of them.
I am the resurrection and the life
Harry Goodhew - Sunday 12 February 2012
I guess if you or I were born into a life of great opulence, beauty, wealth, and privilege, and always lived in such spectacular circumstances, we might well take for granted, and consider commonplace, what others, less fortunate, would see as quite exceptional. It would not be the case that we allowed “familiarity to breed” actual “contempt”, for the word “contempt” tends to carry a negative connotation, which might not be true for us; we might not actually despise our very good fortune. Rather, it might be more a case of familiarity breeding familiarity and, as a consequence, lead us to lose an appreciation of just how privileged we are.