Reassuring

It is immensely reassuring to know that wherever we go in the world we can find brother and sisters in Christ. It is great to have physical family close, but it's also important to have spiritual family too, even if we only cross paths for a short time. Our trip to the local church in Leigh this morning brought us across warm and welcoming fellow Christians, and just like my time in New York, the world seems a little smaller when you meet Christian family thousands of miles away from home. I might have given a higher proportion of a talk on the John 9 passage we looked a today to the spiritual significance of the physical sign and a little less to physical healing in today's world but we got there eventually, and anyhow, that's not the main thing I'll remember about this morning.

Last night a big storm rolled in. It was pretty impressive - 12 hours of gales and driving rain (although the sun's trying to come out again now and the sea and sky have mostly returned to sapphire blue). I am told last night's storm doesn't compare to the three day storm that hit here a couple of weeks back. To be honest, I'm quite glad I missed it. I didn't sign up for rain. I can get that back in the UK!