GREAT TO HAVE PAUL back from his Bishop’s Advisory Panel. I think it has been a great experience for him, and he and Angela came round for a natter about it all earlier. One thing’s for sure, many, many people have been praying for Paul and his fellow candidates. We’ll continue to do so and whilst waiting for news, in 10 days or so, will continue to thank God for the lives and vocations of today’s disciples.  Parker J Palmer wrote in Let Your Life Speak: (p69)

The figure calling to me all those years ago was, I believe, what Thomas Merton calls “true self”. This is not the ego self that wants to inflate us (or deflate us, another form of self-distortion), not the intellectual self that wants to hover above the mess of life in clear but ungrounded ideas, not the ethical self that wants to live by some abstract moral code. It is the self planted in us by the God who made us in God’s own image – the self that wants nothing more, or less, than for us to be who we were created to be. True self is true friend. One ignores or rejects such friendship only at one’s peril.

God bless and sustain his faithful people.