If that has ever happened on your walk you will know that the severe discomfort it creates is out of all proportion to the size of the irritant causing the problem. The movement of your entire body is affected. It cannot be denied, or ignored. It temporarily distracts our attention from the beauty around us and everything else. We live in a finite world. Suffering is an ever present fact of...

  Have you ever met a person who made a more powerful impact on you than anyone else? A person’s presence, character, voice, conversation can act as a catalyst changing the course of our career, our mind and future. This, I believe, is what happened during the interview between Jesus and a nameless woman at Jacob’s well -though she remains anonymous. There are features which strike me as...

  The visual presentations at COP26 have been, for those willing to remove their blinkers, a stark, shocking revelation of destructive actions which threaten the survival of people and planet. Forests denuded, irreplaceable 500 year old trees felled in minutes, land stripped barren, coastal villages abandoned and livelihoods lost, river beds parched, cities smothered in smog, people starving,...

 A tourist who lost his way wandered into a small country village. He spotted a resident sitting on a wall and after the customary greeting asked him “Do you know the way to Buxton?” Back came the reply from the simple villager, “Yes, I know the way, but if I was going to Buxton I wouldn’t start from here”. Isn’t there a parallel to that in Mt.19? A young man who wasn’t where he wanted to be...