Thought for the week from the Rev David Jones (we 16th September 2012)

Several suits belonging to Margaret Thatcher were sold at auction last week.

The most expensive for an amazing £25,000. The bidders came from all around the world and the sale also included all things ‘British’ from a London bus to the original ‘Keep Calm and Carry on‘poster.

It may seem surprising that someone would want to buy the discarded wardrobe of even of one of our most famous Prime Ministers. Then again people collect and delight in all sorts of things from multi million pound art collections to a lady I visited recently who proudly showed me her very impressive thimble collection which was obviously her pride and joy.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said that our differences are not intended to separate or to alienate but rather to be the means of us realising our need for one another.

Many in our world suffer because of totalitarian and oppressive regimes that seek to alienate and even to destroy any semblance of diversity be it of ideology or faith. That’s why tolerance and understanding must be high on the agenda in our lives as we accept and even celebrate our differences.

Then we will treasure and protect even more the free speech and freedoms we enjoy and for which many in the world can only long for. Individual freedom and mutual respect means as Jesus once said that we don’t look at the speck in our brother’s eye when there’s a plank in our own.

In the words of an old song ‘Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me’.

Rev. David Jones

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