The last 2 weeks have seen a series of annoying little things happening which have been building and building until you end up thinking ‘what the flip is going to happen next!’

First there was emails going astray, then the YFC spam filter rejecting key emails from trusted sources, then not being able to get an answer about vaccinations (and still not!), I got home on Friday to a house with no power due to the boiler tripping the whole system, yesterday this was fixed and cost us £150. Life seems to be a bit of a battle at the moment.

Some would, and have, said this is spirtual attack as I am considering going to Kenya. I’ll acknowledge that they have started to happen since this idea came up, and that we have had an unusual run of difficulties, but is this really ‘the enemy’ trying to prevent me off going to Kenya. I’m not so sure. How can we tell?

I’ve never been one for seeing demons under tables and casting out the odd sneeze here and there; but I am intrigued by the number of people that have used this language of ‘spiritual attack’ in this context in particular. If something like Kenya had not been on the horizon would I even be thinking or writing this? If I am only seeing these things, or attacks, now, rather than all the time, does this mean that the rest of my work with YFC is not worthy of a spiritual attack. If it was surely I should be seeing boilers blow, washing machines break, things go missing all the time – but then maybe I do!

I don’t wish o knock this outloook, I am merely questionning this whole language and asking the question – is this ‘attack’ or this ‘just life’?

And saying that – should it be ‘just life’ anyway?