Dear Friends,

Greetings for 2010 – it is hard to get “10” down on paper after 9 years of writing “0X” but given another couple of weeks I imagine it will be routine.

I wonder what this year will hold for you? I know some of the things that we have planned but I also seek to live in the maxim we find in the wisdom of Proverbs 19:21 “We humans keep brainstorming options and plans but God’s purpose prevails”. (The Message). I am keen to live a little less pressured this year than last and have taken action accordingly. I want to remain fit and healthy and keep growing in my faith with a regular expectation that the Scriptures will keep coming alive for me.

Many of you will be or have been easing back into the weekly and monthly routines of ministry, church, and family life. Routines normally give security and comfort of which we all need a certain amount to function well in life. The non routine periods can be risky or adventurous, refreshing or traumatic, stimulating or draining, or perhaps all of those mixed together.