Excuses
Charles Darwin and his cohort have a lot to answer for..! I was talking to a neighbour in our street; someone about my vintage. As so often happens when octogenarians engage in conversations the subject of human mortality easily comes into the conversation. Moses, in Psalm 90 asserts that the years of our life are threescore and ten or perhaps by reason of our strength, four score. That implied that we are both in our bonus years. So somewhere in the conversation about our mortality I slipped in the million dollar question: “So are you prepared and ready to face your Maker?” His answer floored me... an answer I’d never heard expressed so bluntly in the many times I’ve asked people that question. Without a moment’s hesitation he stated, “I don’t have one John!” Stone the crows...! I don’t have a Maker...? How sad is that? Here’s man who categorically states without a shadow of a doubt that he ‘just happened’. ...