I know that this is last week's news, but did you hear that the government expect Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England to write a letter! And that's not all, he might have to write two or three letters this year to the chancellor of the exchequer. Honestly, they only pay the man £285,000 a year, how can they expect him to sign five pound notes, play golf and write a letter? I know that's not what is meant, but I did get the feeling the reporters loved saying that old Merv had to write a letter, poor chap. It almost makes up for the fact that we can't afford to heat our houses, run our cars or feed our kids due to the soaring price of things. I'll shut up about it now, but it did make me think how silly and how twistable our language is at times. It's not only that we use jargon all the time, although we do. We also change the sense of what we are doing by how we talk about it. Are you lying or bending the truth? Full of lust or a red-blooded male? A sinner or merely human? Perhaps that's why truth is such a key value for God... however we dress it up, truth matters, especially before God.