It was a London day today.
I love London days – no getting stuck in traffic, time to read on the train, or sleep!
I attended the NCVYS chief execs meeting at their new office just across the road from The Angel Tube.
Strange … while I was enjoying London city sunshine, apparently Gillingham was experiencing torrential rain – this weather is weird!

I managed to read a few chapters of Unofficial God which is a good read. I like some of the suggestions and observations that Bishop Brian makes, not because they are necessarily new, but because it is a bishop who is responsible for placing curates that is saying them.

Essentially the whole theme of the book is whether we are inside or outside the walls. He notes that we, as ‘church’ consider the church building, that space which is inside the walls, as a place of purity while outside may be considered as a place of disgrace and separation from God.

Brian then draws our attention to the place of Jesus birth, baptism, crucifixion and resurrection. Each of these places can be considered as outside the walls, in the place of disgrace. By his very presence Jesus has transformed these places of disgrace into places of blessing.

I find that so exciting. By his presence Jesus transformed places of disgrace into places of blessing. By our presence in Jesus, can we transform places of disgrace into places of blessing too?