” Every cloud has a silver lining!” 

English proverb attributed to John Milton 

The cloud 

Online apps are a world and age away from my simple technology of pen and paper. Having to obtain my boarding pass online for returning to the UK has proved a testing time this morning.  The reception could not help me so they suggested I took a taxi to the airport. There was no TUi desk there, I went to Swiss Air, they said “You have to download the app but didn’t show me how and the information desk didn’t think I needed to download it! The phone call I made to the travel agent gave me a series of options, none of which I wanted. No tui representatives at the hotel.

 In the end, I had reached a point of frustration with my own incompetence and so I called my secretary and spiritual son Dmitry.

In a few minutes, he diffused my panic and solved the problem.

 Yet my concern remains for the ever-advancing voracious monster of Artificial Intelligence consuming reality and feigning the image of God.

One of our great saints, St Kosmas Aitolos spoke words of prophecy. He predicted many things before his martyrdom in 1779, some of which have come to pass, others yet to be fulfilled.

” the time will come when people will speak from one far place to another, for example, from Constantinople to Russia as though they were in adjoining rooms.”

” you will see in the plain a carriage without horses which will run faster than rabbits.”

” you will see people flying in the sky like blackbirds and hurling fire on the earth.”

 Lord have mercy