Category: priorities

  • compromising circumstances

    A businessman gets on an aeroplane and sits down in the first class section of the plane. The stewardess rushes over to him and tells him he must move to standard class because he doesn’t have a first class ticket. The businessman replies, “I’m a businessman, I’m smart, I have a good job, and I’m…

  • the morning after the weekend before

    A few years ago the Queen remarked that she had had an “annus horriblis” (stick it in Google translate for latin if you are unsure). This weekend I have had “trainus horriblis”. I had rotten train journeys going to and returning from the Baptist Assembly in Blackpool. The Assembly itself was a massive blessing and…

  • principles?

    I have a decision to make. I have been approached by a Christian publisher to write a series of daily devotions based on my blog. That is amazing. (I can’t say which publisher but I don’t think they will be asked to join the TUC.) Apparently someone who works there is a regular blogmate and showed…

  • prioritising priorities

    I can remember a lecture at the Vicar Factory where I trained (the awesome Spurgeon’s College if you are interested). That statement may surprise you for two reasons: one is that I can remember a lecture, the second is that I actually am trained. Anyhoo… the lecture was in my final year when we were…

  • >Noises off

    > What can you hear from where you are right now? I can hear one of my children playing Quidditch (on the Playstation) and the other watching TV. I can hear the click clack of my fingers hitting the keys of my keyboard as I type. I can hear the ticking of a clock I…