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I’ve never had a conversion experience, but the closest I’ve come was in a rather dingy classroom in East London just over a decade ago.  More than a year into my ordination training, I still had no real idea why I was doing it – apart from the fact that all the people who could have prevented it, hadn’t. 

In the whole of February I will only have spent two nights in the UK. I am neither proud, nor entirely happy about that, but it is what it is.

One hundred years ago at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, during the time today when we are celebrating the Eucharist, ended a world war that had brought inconceivable suffering.

Today’s Gospel reading seems, almost eerily, like a text specifically written for our troubled world. A text about outward virtue and inward corruption.  A text that shows it’s not what’s on the outside and goes in that is sinful; but what’s inside us that comes out. 

I live my life at something of a rush, and often more in the future than the present.  Even as I’m doing one thing at least half my mind is occupied with the next thing, or the one after that. But, occasionally, I get interrupted.

Wednesday is US Independence Day, celebrated with barbecues, (cold) beer, fireworks and Thomas Jefferson’s stirring words about ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’