Reminds me of the story of when God was creating the Earth. As we know, he had to do it quite quickly, but he decided to make this one really special place and call it Scotland.
Beautiful scenery, mountains, rivers, forests and glens. Stunning coastline, affable people, plentiful game and fish.
A bit later St Peter joins the team, and one day he's talking to God about how things are going down on Earth. He can't help bringing up the subject of Scotland and says, "Y'know boss, that Scotland place really is something special, arguably it's too good, once the rest of them get to know about it, there's going to be trouble, they'll all want somewhere that fantastic"
So, God thinks about it for a while and decides that he'll just dial back the weather a bit in Scotland to make it just a little less attractive.
St Peter agrees, it's probably for the best, but is deeply concerned that it's still too nice by comparison to all the other places. He really feels strongly that it'll lead to civil unrest. He puts this to God who says...
"Ok look Pete, what you don't know about is the really dreadful neighbours I'm giving them..."
;-)
|