The meek shall get seven seats
Mar 8th, 2007 | By admin | Category: IrelandIn college days there was a graffito,
“The meek shall inherit the earth,
if that’s alright with everyone else”
It had probably been doing the rounds for decades, it wasn’t even particularly funny, but it was true. Gentle people get trodden on. One man said to me once, “If you walk in the middle of the road, you have to expect to get run over”.
Being trodden on, getting run over, is probably a fairly Christian thing to happen, doesn’t Jesus say that we can’t be his followers unless we …