Category: risk

  • evicted

    Today is my eviction anniversary*. 48 years ago I was unceremoniously evicted from the comforting, nurturing, nourishing place I had spent the first 9 months of my existence into a cold, bright, noisy environment that I had never imagined existed. I don’t think I wanted to leave the womb-warmth – which may explain why most…

  • the parable of the creativity

    Today I have been creative. Well, I think I have been creative. I have put together combinations of letters to form words that I believe make some sort of sense when I put them together. I have put images with words to illustrate them. I have sent some of the creativity to other people for…

  • autopilot

    Computers apparently take the fun out of everything. That seems to be the message that we get from motoring programmes because invariably when they are testing a car around a track the presenters turn off the computer aided traction control systems. This is followed by lots of tyre smoke, high-speed cornering, power slides and whoops…

  • travelling companions

    This weekend has been provocative, inspiring, encouraging and challenging at different times. Ideas and possibilities of whirring through my mind and I am trying to assimilate them all. I am trying to work out what God not concerned to me and to our church through all of these different thoughts and ideas. One of the…

  • out of our depth?

    “Don’t go out of your depth!” I can still vividly remember that repeated injunction from my parents when we went to the swimming pool or the beach. The rule was that I was always supposed to be able to put my feet down on the bottom of the pool or the sea bed and still be…