Thought for the week

IMAGINE if it was your first day at a new job and Lady Gaga turned up to sing. Would that not be a bit awkward?

There you are trying to make a good impression behind the counter at McDonald’s and, all of a sudden, she’s up on one of the tables in a skimpy costume belting out ‘Poker Face’ at you.

It didn’t happen exactly like that but she was there to celebrate last week when Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States.

What a fortunate man; Lady Gaga and a new job that he had dreamed about since childhood.

I wonder what the disciples felt when Jesus called on them to give up their jobs to follow him.

They might have had childhood dreams too of becoming the fishermen which most of them now were.

However, the future that Jesus offered was a very different line of work.

“Follow me and I will make you fishers of people,” he said. Jesus still throws down that challenge at the feet of his followers to this day.

Devote your life to others, not to yourself. Help people turn aside from their pursuit of selfish materialism.

Try to show them that there is a way of love which leads to so much more.

The majority of the disciples died martyrs’ deaths in the end but I don’t suppose they regretted their decision to follow Jesus for a moment.

With him, they had found a fulfilment beyond their imagining.

Meanwhile, let’s keep our fingers crossed for Joe Biden during his time as President.

Even with Kamala Harris and Lady Gaga on his side, he has quite a job ahead of him.