day twelve

It is strange to see bright sunshine outside our back door and to hear of deep snow elsewhere. Even more dramatic was the change from summer last week to winter this one. It is so easy to find in this a source of complaint (certainly I prefer summer!), but it is bizarre that everyone interviewed seems to moan. I wonder if too many of us are like this - complaining as a matter of course. I've become very short fused when my children moan - is this just me moaning back, I wonder, or am I being a wise parent. Certainly my experience of moaners is that they drain everyone's energy and gain nothing themselves. Why then is the church often seen to eb full of them, I wonder? Maybe it is not any more full than anywhere else - it's just that everywhere is full of them (or us?). Please God stop us moaning.