Little green men, patience and a tiny pebble.

Spent the day with the good folk of Adelaide's.It was a day of quiet, reflection and prayer and lasted till around 3.30 in the afternoon.

Walking back from bath street to Central Station I crossed at least eight ( 8 ) pedestrian crossings and they were all showing the wee green man.

Having spent a day praying and reflecting, trying again to experience slow, put the brakes on rush, possess my soul by learning patience, not sure what the message of that was. I really thought as I came to the Bothwell Street junction I'd be stopped by a red and would be compelled to practice that futile gesture of impatience, pressing the button as if repeating the process would change or speed up the phasing of the system. But it too was at green, which meant I arrived at the station a bit early for my train.

Never mind. The train would probably be leaving from Platform 11A,that one that's a five minute hike to the nether regions of platformworld. But of course today it was to leave from Platform 13.

So having saved all that time by the ubiquitous green man, and not having to walk half way home to reach Platform 11A, the time I saved was spent impatiently hanging around waiting for the train to leave.

Need another quiet day to reflect on the meaning of all that.

But nothing to do with any of the above, from a day of reflection one line is worth quoting here – think of it as a tiny pebble in your trainer, unignorably there and needing attention:

'If physical hunger is the result of social injustice, as the Sermon on the Plain has it, then hunger and thirst after righteousness is the beginning of the way out of it.'

Luke and Matthew – Sermon on the Plain, Sermon on the Mount. Need both of them to come anywhere near the rich revolutionary possibilities that lie hidden in the words of Jesus.