成人快手

From the Reverend Richard Coles:聽
鈥淲han that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote...鈥� Prologue to Chaucer鈥檚 Canterbury Tales, taught at my school by Mr Peters, who bored easily and when he did would revert from the English of the 14th C to the morse code he learned in the Royal Navy - dit DAH, dit DAH DAH dit, dit DAH dit - (that鈥檚 morse code with a Welsh accent). I think of Mr Peters every April, when, as Chaucer noted, nature gets lively, blossom blooms, all things quicken, and people long to go on pilgrimages. In his day it was to Canterbury or Rome, in ours more likely an Easter break to the Canaries; but the impulse, if not the purpose, is the same.聽
We seek new horizons; beach therapy, white water rafting, mindfulness mini breaks. Some, like those on 成人快手2鈥檚 鈥楶ilgrimage鈥�, second episode tonight, are doing what Chaucer鈥檚 pilgrims were doing - joining with strangers to journey to a place of spiritual significance. And to discover, as we go along, how that spiritual significance gets to work on us. I took a group to the Holy Land a few years ago, to the places we have known all our lives from Bible stories, and discovered - what? That Galilee is green and beautiful because it rains there (though nowhere in the New Testament does Jesus gather his followers and say 鈥渋nside if wet鈥�).聽
That at Hebron on the West Bank, together with Jews and Muslims, you can go to visit Abraham鈥檚 Tomb, under the impatient gaze of teenage soldiers with semi- automatic rifles. That to get to Bethlehem you have to pass through check points before being thrown out of church by a grumpy monk for praying in the wrong place (this happened to me). And then, suddenly, at the centre of this most fought-over place, in spite of wearily relentless hostility on all sides, silence falls as we approach the candlelit spot where, the carol tells us, Christ the Saviour was born.聽
A place of spiritual significance does not mean a mountaintop wreathed in mist, or a flower-filled sunny meadow. It means a place where the world beyond this world breaks through, and suddenly we sense the possibility of life transformed by it; of darkness turning to light, despair to hope, and hostility to peace. Journey towards that.