{Christianity and Christians}[19th February 1989]

[Redbook6:95-97)][19890219:1218c]{Christianity and Christians}[19th February 1989]

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I woke up a couple of mornings ago, I think it was, and it occurred to me that all the people who have been most disappointing to me very recently in terms of what one would expect in ordinary Human relationships* have one thing in common. Obviously life is full of disappointments, etc., and one would be a fool to be greatly cast down by other people’s freedom to pursue their own interests without regard to oneself; only the thing which these people have in common makes it worth mentioning. I was going to list them, but can’t actually do it; however the common factor is simply that they are all publicly practising Christians of one sort or another, amounting to half-a-dozen individuals plus one almost-entire congregation.

As against that, our closest friends as a family since we moved down here were also met in Church,** and they find the rest as much more trying than we do as their involvement is greater than ours.

*my parents remain in a class of their own.

**[[Redbook6:57-58)][19881205:1247e]{R~ birthdays, and Love [continued (4)]}[5th December 1988]]

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