Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: Endure

Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: Endure

I was supposed to be on sabbatical till the end of this month.  But the restrictions on travel as well as the pastoral and missional demands of the COVID-19 lockdown has meant it rightly needed to be delayed.  No, I’m not asking for sympathy.  As God reminded me a few...
Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: Restore

Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: Restore

I spent some of my daily exercise out in the bluebell woods near my home a week or so back.  A wonderful carpet of blue, a heavy scent filling the air.  What a wonder – life being restored as the exceptionally warm April brings new life once more.  A wonderful...
Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: People

Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: People

I’ve taken to going on a short walk after lunch.  My once a day exercise as recommended in the government COVID-19 lock down advice.  Keeping an appropriate distance from other people of course. During the first week of the lockdown, on a beautiful blue-sky day I...
Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: Change

Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: Change

I have hesitated to write this month’s blog.  But this is a journey and so with fellow travellers I think I need to be honest.  I’ve been travelling quite a lot over the past month.  Some of it greener than others. I travelled “greenly” by train to the South Eastern...
Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: Ready

Twelve Steps Towards Freedom: Ready

While they might have disappeared from our headlines, replaced by different apocalyptic concerns over the spread of the Coronavirus, the forest fires in Australia have not gone away.  And with the hottest months of the summer to come, more are expected.  The images...