Pity Prince Charles

Pity the poor heir to the throne, Prince Charles.Why? He, like the rest of the Royal Family and also of church of England vicars can do no right. A Channel 4 documentary accused him of meddling. What this means simply is expressing his opinion on certain matters and trying to do something about them. Most of us are bar or armchair critics and shout our mouths off about things and then leave it to the other guys - or girls - to do something about whatever we complain about. I like the story, doubtless apocryphal, of a man reading the account of Isaiah's call to the prophetic ministry as describes in Isaiah 6:6. Thinking about it he fancied he heard the voice call out as in verse 8: " Whom shall I send? And who shall go for us?" To which he replied, "Lord, here am I. Send my sister!" If poor Charlie boy says nowt he is cursed as being a waste of space and taxpayers' money. If he 'meddles' he is going beyond any and every conceivable call of duty and is wasted space. Except that he is a good lad as far his charity the Prince's Trust is concerned, apparently. And what's that to do with C of E vicars. Well, did you read about the vicar who objected to the choir in his church so much that he sacked them, because they were not singing the songs that are written for the modern era, but more diffucult ones. Somebody has said that you should never get between a vicar and his organist/choirmaster (usually one and the same person). In other words the vicars can never please everyone and yet everybody expects them to be 100% perfect in every department, duly forgetting that there is only person who has ever achieved such exemplary status after whom the early Christians were nicknamed, but which name became a flag of honour - and should still be so.