I will be brief today, because that is what is demanded of me. I'm sure some of you were wandering what today's Sunday Sermon would be all about. Would I talk about failing online retailers and the cut throat world of business? Perhaps I'd talk about cliques and how we believe how we approach the hobby is the right way? Often to the exclusion of others and other experiences. I could've done that, and I may indeed return to both subjects soon enough. But, these topics pale into insignificance for me around about this time of year, it all seems churlish today. I myself might not have had to fight in any conflicts, a fact that I am eternally grateful for, but I always show my own personal respects for those who have. More importantly I like to show my respects for those who fought in such conflicts and gave their lives so that I might have a better life.
So that we have freedoms to do what we want within reason. So that others might badly run companies. So that we all might buy toy soldiers and play pretend war. So that we have choices that many of these young men and women were not really given themselves. I don't think about such things on a daily basis, because if I did I'd probably slide into depression, but it does me good to think of the sacrifice others have made, so that we might make a complete pigs ear of things. I'd say "lest we forget" but all to often it seems we already have. I don't want to say any soldiers sacrifice was ever in vain, but so often when you look at the progression of history you realise that quite often they were. Why? Because of the way we live our lives, and the way we quite often take what we have for granted. We spend so long wrapped up in our own little worlds, with our own little problems that we very rarely stop to think how good we have it in comparison to past times, or even others on our planet this very day.
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