I recently received a potentially terrifying email. My computer had been hacked, and a virus now had access to my camera, address book and web activity. I had been filmed watching porn (not great for a Christian leader!). The dual videos would now be sent side by side to my entire address book unless I […]
The conversation went like this: Customer: ‘Can you help me; do you have any cantaloupe melons?’Assistant: ‘I’ll just check our stock to see if we have any.’ The assistant checked their electronic handset. ‘I’m sorry but we won’t have any until tomorrow morning.’ The reaction from the customer was not what the assistant expected. In […]
“I want to enter heaven breathlessly. I want to break the tape with a shout of ‘I did it!’” That was the heart’s desire of my first spiritual director, Alex Buchanon. I remember hearing him share this over 20 years ago and feeling so inspired and challenged to finish well in my journey of following […]
About the Sport Principle Have you ever been frustrated at being excluded from something because you cannot access the specialist language? Olympic track cycling presents this frustration for me. Every four years, I excitedly tune in to enjoy what strikes me as a gripping event, but every time, my inability to distinguish my keirins from my […]
The first part of this is going to be a bit obvious for a lot of people. Put quite simply people with autism deal very much in truth and can on occasion hang onto facts like a dog with a bone. On occasion we don’t so much speak the truth in love, but in a […]
“It’s Numbing Nonsense” The house is quiet, little man is at Nursery and my wife is meeting friends. I have spent all morning watching Formula 1 “Drive to Survive”. I got in the car to head to the shop to get comfort food to binge eat and numb myself further with more T.V. As I […]
About the Sport Principle Everybody over a certain age (and Liverpool fans of all ages) remembers Liverpool’s European Cup final ‘miracle’ in Istanbul in 2005. 3-0 down at half-time, nobody thought they could turn it around, but they did, winning the final and going down in history in the process. Even this awesome achievement was […]
About the Sport Principle: Life in the Olympic village: This year, the Olympics will be very different. Due to the global pandemic, there will be no international spectators and the competitors themselves will be in and out of the village, only permitted to stick around for the duration of their event. But perhaps this won’t […]
Some of you may have noticed by now, but through this series of blogs I am trying to work through the attributes I listed when I began. I have to admit that as I have gone on the more difficult I have found it. This is because I have had to take a good long […]
Back in March the Royal family was stunned by words which caused them much anxiety. Relationships have at best been strained and the Queen has used some words to bring about healing and hopefully reconciliation – “…Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved family members”. The Christian family from time to time has also […]
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