Flip this is hard sometimes. I am not Solomon. My rapidly advancing years mean that I am growing in wisdom – but to be honest it was a flipping low starting point and I’m still a bit of a tit a lot of the time….
I have been back in Africa for exactly four weeks. It feels like 5 minutes. And in those four weeks I have seen our wonderful God……… ……….caring for the three neglected children we help in Kitumba. Stidia, Dennis and Cleophas are now clean, parasite-free, well-housed and in…
The new J10:10 vehicle. Okay……so it doesn’t really fit the profile of a ‘Christian Missionary’ – but then neither do I. And the kids at the J10:10 house like it. And it was less than half the price that I expected to pay for a…
Ten years ago today I should have died. I crashed my expensive car, drunk, head-on into a van at an estimated impact of 140mph. My car went under the van, pretty much the whole of the right hand side of my body and head was…
Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote in his diary, as if recording some extraordinary phenomenon, ‘I have been to church today, and am not depressed.’ As a child I would have been shocked if I had gone to church and not left it feeling morose at…
I recently quoted William Shakespeare when I wrote about how trusting the poor unconditionally is crass stupidity in a developing country. I may well have done that in the light of the latest theft from me by a Ugandan that I was trying to help….
…………….where I am now. After 10 mad days in Kabale checking up on everything we do there: sponsorship; the J10:10 kids home; the medical centre in Kabale; the 88,000 litres of clean water in tanks in Kigazi; our nursery and its 160-odd pupils; our 14…
‘God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.’ Saint Augustine (354-430) It’s one of the many things that I love about Jesus. That his love for us, interest in us and concern about us…………..is individual. That to him, the visible…
‘Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.’ Henry David Thoreau US writer (1817-62) I don’t remember…
I am knackered. And blessed beyond measure. I finally returned to Kabale five days ago and I have, without a vehicle, been pounding the streets of Kabale District to review the various projects that we run here in Uganda. And it has been a joyful…