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The media call midsummer the silly season because they seem to run short of real news and often end up printing stories of an even more frivolous nature than normal. Well, not to be outdone, here is this summer’s silly story (it really needs to be spoken out loud with a heavy South American accent!).
Two Mexicans are lost in the desert, no food, no water, wandering aimlessly and now close to death. As the vultures circle overhead they feel like just lying down and waiting for the inevitable, when all of a sudden......
“Hey Jose, do you smell what I smell. Ees bacon I is sure of eet.”
“Si, Pablo, eet smells like bacon to meee.”
So, with renewed strength and hope, they struggle up the next sand dune, and there, in the distance, is a tree loaded with bacon. There is raw bacon, dripping with moisture, there's fried bacon, crispy bacon, back bacon, smoked and rind less bacon... every imaginable kind of pig meat.
“Jose, Jose, we is saved. Eees a bacon tree.
“'Pablo, are you sure ees not a meerage? We ees in the desert don't forget.”
“Jose when deed you ever hear of a meerage that smell like bacon... ees no meerage, ees a bacon tree.”
And with that, Pablo races towards the tree. He gets to within 5 metres, Jose following closely behind, when all of a sudden, a machine gun opens up and Pablo is cut down in his tracks. It is clear he is mortally wounded but, true friend that he is, he manages to warn Jose with his dying breath.
“Jose... go back man, you was right ees not a bacon tree.”
“Pablo, Pablo mi amigo... what ees it?”
“Jose... ees not a bacon tree... Ees... Ees... Ees... Ees...
a Ham Bush!”
My guess is that most of us have times when we feel that life has ambushed us. We’ve unwittingly got into situations that cause stress or pain and we wonder how we ever got there, it certainly wasn’t what we planned or hoped for. Some of these things we can do little about but much of the time they come out of life choices that we have made.
Summer holidays can break the rhythm of life for a little while (if you don’t take your mobile/computer so that you can keep in touch with the office etc.) and re-evaluate your priorities, choose where to use your time and energy in future. If we take recreation to mean re-creation then this a major reason for holidays.
One of Jesus’ famous sayings was: ‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.’ (Matthew 11:28 NIV) The ‘credit crunch’ has added to many people’s burdens this year. Maybe a re-evaluation is due?
Have a great summer. Graham Robinson
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