Blue Truck, Red State: The Queen's Christmas Broadcast, 2021

Saturday, December 25, 2021

The Queen's Christmas Broadcast, 2021

Her Majesty the Queen broadcast her annual Christmas message to the nation and the Commonwealth today, and paid tribute to the memory of Prince Philip, who died this year on April 9th. This is the first Christmas the Queen has spent without her beloved consort since they were married in 1947. Nevertheless, her message was characteristically optimistic and encouraging.

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2 comments:

Tim said...: I know it’s against all protocol, but sometimes, don’t you just want to pick her up and give her a hug?; January 1, 2022 at 5:42 AM
Russ Manley said...: I would never be so bold - but you do it if you want to.

I thought she was marvelous, as always, though it looks to me as if she has lost a bit of weight somehow.; January 16, 2022 at 11:30 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu