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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0009 God's New Year Hangover</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I’m wondering –<br>with, I trust, due circumspection<br>with respect to these holy, mighty matters<br>yet with the open mind<br>which He has risked mankind and me with, <br>whether He keeps a tally<br>or even an annual journal<br>of mankind’s cavortings around God’s Christmas…<br>and how mankind approaches<br>God’s seasoned, ordained New Year, <br>His holy, spirited Hogmanay.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Does He receive intelligence, <br>flights of angels pushing their way -<br>or unaffected, for who knows? –<br>through cyberspace, the ether, as it was<br>and is and ever shall be, <br>bringing news of how the Good News<br>went down this year; <br>the statistics, perhaps, of how many<br>parents explained this season of infantile blackmail<br>in the name of metaphoric divine love; <br>or whether His Christmas message<br>survived Brussels edicts<br>and Brussels sprouts</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">giving Him a clear week<br>before, in the name of <br>divine justice and equity, <br>laws obeyed or disobeyed, <br>Good and Bad, <br>Virtue rewarded, <br>cause and effect, <br>planning His New Year programme for the world -<br>a catastrophe here, a well-disguised miracle there –<br>just to remind mankind of who’s in charge<br>of those things not covered by your insurance<br>touchingly referred to without a hint of political correctness<br>as ‘Acts of God’…(He passed it over to Natural Law..) </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Or as some divines assert: powerless, <br>even He, having set the world upon its course, <br>its laws – and love, it’s said – in Genesis I ch. I v. I<br>(and its equivalent of course, in other faiths) , <br>to do aught but sit and watch<br>as the world plays out all this <br>divine comedy with its silent laughs<br>like some old film that’s put on<br>the TV every New Year’s Day; <br>here We go again, maybe He thinks..</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or maybe with a gentle smile<br>that’s not forgotten the Paradise<br>of those Who Got What They Wanted<br>regardless of the cost, (for?) at Christmas; <br>the Hell of New Year’s Eve; <br>the Purgatory of a hangover; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or maybe He’s laughing fit to burst – they say<br>He got the Dawkins book on Christmas Day.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a></strong></div>