After the Rob Bell meeting I tubed across London to catch up with Ruth who is the director of Waltham Forest YFC. Ruth has an incredibly exciting vision and it is always more than a pleasure to go see her and spend time listening and praying. In a few weeks we are running an Art of Connecting course with some Newham youth workers which I am really looking forward to.

On the way back two interesting things happened on both the tube and the train to Gillingham.

On the tube I was reading the final chapter of the book ‘So you don’t want to goto church anymore?’ when the guy sitting next to me asked if I was a Christian and we had a great conversation. He has just started going to Kensington Temple and wanted to know more about YFC and what we do. People don’t talk to each other on the tube! Could this be a sign of the precence of God? Could things be changing?

On the train there was an unusually jovial atmospher with people smiling at each other despite the fact the train was crowded and loads were having to stand. There was a young girl of about 5 who was just being a young girl and then she asked a profound question: ‘mum, whay are we all trapped in here?’ A prophetic word maybe?

The question resonated with nearly every commuter … why indeed to we put ourselves through this everyday? It’s always refreshing to get a childs perspective!

We had a great cluster yesterday with Geoff sharing his vision on prisons and Rich has written more about it here.I just wanted to get a bit of my own back on the picture front and draw attention to the fact that while we went to the Chandos to chat and eat lunch while Rich retreated like a hobbit to a stained glass window somewhere!