We’re still gathering ourselves up after being away – still slapping on the moisturiser to deal with the after-effects of the sun. Yes! Poppy has returned from apartment-dwelling with Anna in Belfast. She doesn’t do Easyjet – prefers travelling as a paws passenger on the Stena HSS to Stranraer.
Meanwhile I’m still pondering the preaching and sermon-surfing issues raised by the Independent on Saturday – was there ever a skill or a discipline so widely misunderstood? I’m a believer that good communication tends to happen when there are time boundaries – broadcasting makes you that way. So I write about 400-500 words – certainly no more. Every word written out – and then I don’t read them. Strange.
Meanwhile I just happened to find this handy sermon-timer doing duty at traffic lights in Bangkok. It counts steadily down in green until your time is up. Then it counts in red. Every church should have one?
Well… it’s a lot gentler than some sermon-timers might be 😉