Jiminy!... Cricket!

I've just discovered the Indian 20/20 cricket on TV.  Great!  What fun!  I can now watch cricket on terrestrial television.  All right, it's not the white flanneled fools playing 'on the Close tonight'.  Far from it.  Bright blue and red and gold clothes, big screens flashing up 'Not out!!' etc, fanfares and pom-pom girls cavorting whenever a boundary's scored.  But still you can watch Sachin Tendulkar, Jacques Kallis, and Shane Warne in action, masters of their art.  And there's something to be said for being able to watch a whole match in half a day.  And for a relief from the normal diet of cold muddy sports.

Tomorrow we meet our church's equivalent of a bishop - with a rather prosaic title like area superindendent.  But that's all the Greek word from which bishop comes means: episkopos - over-seer.  So I suppose it amounts to moreorless the same thing.  I'm sure he'll be nice - but not dressed in purple.  I wonder whether he'll have a beard - let the reader understand.

By the way, I am enjoying Laura Hackett's worship.

I Choose Everything

On Wednesday my editor, the inimitable Tony Collins called round at tea time, very dapper in a pin-striped jacket, button-down collar shirt and natty red tie.  He was very positive about 'I CHOOSE EVERYTHING Embracing life (even when it doesn't make sense)'.  It looks as though we're heading for publication fast.  Jozanne and Dave, her husband, have been working on getting a foreword.  I'm now starting on getting permission for quotations I've used.  So it's getting quite exciting.  Keep praying.

Today, predictably, the BBC have run another story about people NOT being prosecuted.  Personally I think not prosecuting Boudicca and Caractacus Downes is a sensible decision - but a headline story?  Non-story, more like.  Something not happening.  Any more a story than the thousands who are not asking to have their lives terminated?  I think not.  Did they read my letter?

Thanks to a link on this blog, I've discovered the young worship-leader, Laura Hackett, from Kansas City, and bought her debut album on iTunes.  Now that's a relief.  My favourite song so far is 'Beautiful Mercy'. http://www.myspace.com/ihopkclaura