Yes, Valentine's Day - a day of cruelty and jest. A day for ominous silences and regretful glances, a day for pent up lusts to manifest as manufactured love in the hope of sex to come.
We forget it is a holy day for the venerance of Saint Valentine. I wonder if the saint would be pleased with the tributes to the currency of love paid at his altar each year?
Now I've got the lyrics to 'What if God was one of us' by Joan Osborne in my head.
"What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us,"
Just a stranger on the bus, trying to make his way home."
I always thought the girl who wrote that was pretty confused. What is she trying to say in that song? What's the message, that God would find it as difficult to cope with life as anyone else? That life is pretty awful, so get down here and have a go yourself, and then feel free to judge us?
But then at the end, she says that no-one's calling on the phone. Oh, except for the bloody Pope!
Not such a normal guy now is he, this Godman?? Hmmm, Joan Osborne??
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