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December
Advice
I Love You

November
38. Bald is beautiful
37. Fire
36 Sleep
35 Music

October 2006
34. Stupidity
33. Painting
32. mmm Pasties
31. Built to last
30. Phlegm

September 2006
29. Meetings
28. Crime thoughts
27. Colours
26. Unwanted guests

August 2006
25. Comparison
24. Waterproof Mascara
23. Tasty MSG
22. Helplessness

July 2006
21. Attraction
20. Hair
19. Hero
18. Laughter
17. Factoids

June 2006
16. Voiceless
15. Bruises (ouch)
14. Sunburn
13. Mistakes

May 2006
12. Arms
11. Willow Tree
10. Eurovision
9. Chicken
8. Addictions

April 2006
7. Age
6. Celebrities
5. Language

March 2006
4. Commonwealth Games
3. Decisions
2. Drizzle
1. Trelawney

Colours

 I think that I would have to say purple is my favourite colour, although I’m also a big fan of blue. Purple was my Nan’s fav colour so I feel some connection to her by liking purple best - a sense of a smile from heaven regarding my colour preference. So purple it is.

 As I painted my gate a deep metallic green, I was informed that God’s favourite colour is green. It turns out that my neighbour (aged 5) asked her uncle (aged old – so I’m told) who had asked God (not really aged at all). God had thought about it and replied that He liked green best. This seemed to make sense to the little girl, who was glad I had decided to please God by painting my gate in His favourite colour.

 This conversation was promptly forgotten (I have the memory span of a goldfish!) until I was sat in a meeting recently. This guy was doing a presentation on the ecological responsibilities of the church, when a slide came up asking “Does God like green?” I had to hold myself back from declaring that not only did God like green but it was actually His preferred colour, and that I had got this info from my 5 year old neighbour. As the bloke continued his presentation my mind began to wander…

 … Looking around at the world, looking around at this country, it would be quite easy to conclude that green is indeed God’s firm favourite. There’s grass and plants and trees which cover the land and spread a greeny goodness. When looking from space (so I’m told, as I’ve yet to go myself!) the world is a mass of green and blue, despite the yellow deserts, the grey mountains, the white ice-caps and the immense amount of non-green man-made structures. I don’t know why this is – maybe I’ll get my neighbour to ask her uncle to ask God! But it brings to mind the song ‘from a distance’ (a Bette Midler classic – great lyrics so worth looking up). But when we get close, when we take the time to notice, there are in fact a myriad of colours – pinks, purples, yellows, oranges, reds, blues and all the colours in between. There is such beauty in the flowers, in the rolling hills, in the winding rivers. There is such creativity in the butterflies and birds, the animals around us and even in the creepy crawlies.

 As we cut down the trees, as we increase building developments, as we leave lights on in rooms we’re not in, as we drive when we could walk or get the bus, as we merrily chuck everything away instead of recycling, we are gradually loosing some of the greenery of this world. A single tree or field, a single journey or coke can is nothing, but with over 6 billion people on this planet that’s a lot of coke cans! As humans we are supposed to have a knowledge, understanding and reasoning superior to other animals and yet when it comes to our planet we seem to be a bit dumb. By thinking only for ourselves we are destroying the world around us, we are thinking we can do creation better than God.

 Personally I think that God did an amazing job with creation, although there is room for more purple things! So when I realise how much He put into this world, how much He loves it and how much He wants us to care for it, I begin to see my responsibility in it all. Therefore I have decided to make a greater effort to conserve energy, to recycle, to use renewable products and to find more purple things. Will you join me?

 Oh and if you have a question for God, you know where to come!