This morning I took a couple of hours off to go and watch Hitchhikers Guide with Tom at the cinema. We went in the morning as I am tight and had the whole cinema, apart from 1 person, all to ourselves.

It was noticeably quiet with the absence of sweet wrappers being unwrapped and people thinking they are original with comments as the lights go down. Tom was off school as the staff had a training day, but the other two of my lovely offspring went to school.

This was a good bit of father/son bonding time which I know I should make more time for, and not just when the opportunity arises.

As I have reflected on the short time we had I thought to myself how impoverished my life would be if God only showed up and spent time with me now and again, or when ‘the opportunity arose’. He is there all the time whether I want him to be or not, whether I chose to involve him or not. I sat and thought that this is probably a good clue to how he wants me to be a father.