Leicester-Austerity.

This morning where I volunteer we had a morning reading and sang a hymn. Steven read us the virtues of Jesus and asked how we might live up to his example and the hymn followed in a similar vein. I was suddenly struck by the thought that this aspect of religion is a form of repression. I mean we might attempt supporting the homeless and stuff, but he saved the world! How are we supposed to do that? Now I think well actually he didn’t, he travelled around being good to people and talking beautifully about life, and we can all try to do that. And the repression was from someone along the line bigging him up so much that we normals just feel terminally inadequate and that’s a bit of a downer. But then feeling terminally inadequate means we’re unlikely to get big ideas that we can change things. No, when we’re all insignificant failures we’d best just keep our heads down and follow whoever’s leading. That’s why it’s so brilliant Leicester winning the league. They didn’t have Man City’s cash or Chelsea’s star players they started the season as the terminally inadequate. Then slowly Claudio Raniari taught them they weren’t. They found they could be fierce, focused, play freely and win matches. It’s become a miracle that nobody can quite believe has happened. And all because of attitude, no mega bucks, no PR spin, no star egos, no double speak platitudes just permission to play wonderfully. In the face of our burden of austerity under the repression of the all mighty (Conservatives) Leicester showed us how to be wonderful. And that my friend is the true message of Jesus, before the establishment got its hands on it. Just be amazing and enjoy it. Simples, chiqk.