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"What was that book you were reading just now?" asked the backpack-er woman sitting beside us.
Esther, Ruth and I were travelling the Victoria Line tube trains towards Westminster. "Ruthless Trust", I replied, "by an alcoholic Catholic priest called Brennan Manning. It's brilliant."
I wrote a short article for a local Christian 'youth' magazine late last night, about 'Big Question' prayers. Here's a preview...
The builders/plumbers arrived at around 9am and began to dig a one metre hole outside our back-door... the latest attempt to find the source of the sewer-stink in our house. Joy.
I spent today hanging out with my co-Prayer Spaces in Schools team-friends, Tim Abbott and Catherine Clayton, at the SU staff conference in Northampton. We were there to host a workshop...
After nearly three years of community living together with the Newman family at 40 Kingston Road, Romford, we have agreed that it's time for this season to end. Family and friends, please pray with and for us as we attempt to end well - we know that this isn't going to be easy, for lots of reasons.
Like a lot of people, I get too many emails. And, I confess, i often just delete anything that isn't 'from a friend'. However, there are a few exceptions, and I'd like to recommend the only three regular emails I read...
Today was Poppy's first day in secondary school (aka 'big' school), and it was Angel's first ever day in school, after a few years of home education. A HUGE day for both of them... and for us.
The end of the Summer... the beginning of a new term for our children, the 'sons and daughters' in our community... the beginning of a new season for many of us too... it was good to meet as friends and family this afternoon, to eat pizza, to swap stories, to listen to one another, to break bread and pray for one another - come Holy Spirit, help us enter this new season full of faith and hope and confidence.
George R. R. Martin: A Dance With Dragons: Book 5 of A Song of Ice and Fire
Kester Brewin: Other: Loving Self, God and Neighbour in a World of Fractures
Stuart Maconie: Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England
Howard Schultz: Pour Your Heart into it: Building Starbucks One Cup at a Time
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