or  My son often asks ‘Who would you rather be?’ questions, but this one has stayed with me. On the school run recently he asked, “Dad, who would you rather be, Yoda or a peregrine falcon?” Good question! Usually my answer would have easily been Yoda as he’s my favourite character from Star Wars. […]

I was a lot younger than I am now, perhaps twenty years younger, enjoying a lift in the back of a pick-up truck.  Where I was going I can’t remember, but I do remember a large yellow container rattling around next to me.  Apart from that, the sun was shining, warm and bright. I hadn’t […]

The restless person can not always appreciate the surrounding beauty.  Does not know how to hold joy, or be content in everything.  There’s no capacity to hold anything else, to feel anything, to have anything else.  Nothing distracts more than the restlessness in their soul, than the constant striving, and fretting towards that which they […]

“Can we read this one before bedtime?” My nephew presents me with a book about a young fish who strays away from the safety of the reef, gets caught in a fishing net, taken away from his home and is eventually found by his father who travels the ocean in a relentless search for his […]

In the beginning God said “let us make man in our image”.  God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is a relationship and so He made us for relationship. God said “it is not good for man to be alone”.  This was the first thing He said was “not good”.  None of us thrive when […]