All is peaceful and serene; the spotlights illuminate the cross at one end of the church. A group of about 20 of us are seated around the cross. The course is prepared and silence falls as the leader rests his experienced hands on the lectern and opens in prayer. ...
“Could I ask you to pray for me today?” What would you say if one of your clients asked you that question? You might ask, “What for?” I guess you would listen to the Spirit’s prompting – what does God want for this person? You might use scripture. Let’s have...
Browsing the shelves in the library last week I saw many biographies of the famous and infamous. So many different accounts of the same famous people! Which of them presents the reader with the true picture of the life of their chosen subject? Some of the authors...
“I’ll be in the meeting room downstairs – it is booked out until the end of the day. Can you make sure I am not disturbed?” My team was more than capable of dealing with pretty much anything that might come up that afternoon (what is a manager for,...
“Whoah! If you blow that balloon up any bigger it will burst!” Do you remember being given the job of blowing up the balloons for parties and other celebrations? One of my enduring memories is of developing the risk-taking and decision-making skills required to make...
Why are all these people looking at me as if I were doing something strange? Don’t they know that statues can’t move? Living as art on the Pont St Louis in Paris shows that although there is life within nothing much is happening on the outside. My role as a statue...
