Bucks Fizz conquered Europe with a song with this title at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981! If you want a reminder check it out. You'll find it on you tube. Yes that really is Terry Wogan! This phrase always leads me to sing the song, but it also reminds me how difficult it is to make my mind up at times.
On Sunday we held the Election Hustings in Fareham and listened to 5 of the candidates tackle a number of questions. It was a great evening - 250 people from the churches in Fareham attended - we heard from them, watched them, challenged them, but at the end of it, I still have to make up my mind who to vote for.
There are so many things that I have to make my mind up about and different people will have different perspectives on the same thing. Book reviews, film reviews, music, people, changes... so many views, so many opinions.
Take this 20 minute film. It's called 'The Butterfly Circus' and is tagged with the word Hope. If you have 20 minutes, watch it. www.thedoorpost.com/hope/film/?film=4dd298f102c77b625cf37a9e7744ac68 Is it weird or wonderful or what? I think it is beautifully shot, a powerful message, but is it good or bad, brilliant or barmy? I'm not sure. What do you think?
Or what about 'Pope-gate', the fuss over the circulated memo from the Foreign Office. It was the top headline on Sunday morning and caused a variety of opinions to be shared. The Catholic Voice spokesperson shrugged his shoulders about it whilst the news reporter wanted him to denounce it so the story could run and run. It soon slipped down the headline list. Were you disgusted by it or did you laugh about it?
I've been reading Philip Pullman's book - The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - and I'm still not sure what to make of it. It seems he is just using the Bible text and adding little to it - pretty lazy writing and a bit rich putting his name to what someone else has written. Then he'll add something so bizarre that you wonder if he is just being controversial for the sake of it, but then he'll say something that surprises you and actually gives you hope that he might just understand who Jesus really is.
My hope is that as people read the book they'll want to check out the Bible story of Jesus, because no matter that Philip Pullman doesn't believe Jesus was divine, what Jesus did was remarkable and strange and different and it might just get people thinking. Perhaps then they'll be able to make their mind up about Jesus.
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