After a number of years of writing and re-writing my life story, I have finally just finished the first draft of my autobiography, which is called CROSSING CULTURES, FINDING FREEDOM. I have had some extracts and summaries on this website for a while, but I have recently updated much of what was in that section. … Continue reading MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY – CROSSING CULTURES, FINDING FREEDOM

Friday, 8th March I felt inspired whilst at Mt St Bernard’s Abbey on Friday to reflect on and write some thoughts about God and God's relationship with Creation and with all Humanity. God is and was and always will be, without beginning, without any ending, contained within self, yet flowing ever out. Beyond all naming, … Continue reading GOD IS ALL AND GOD IS IN ALL

"Francis [of Assisi] could not be a peacemaker until he had peace about his own broken relationship with his father, his lost dreams and his own 'demons'. It is no different for us. If we want to be peacemakers, we have to confront the wounds and darkness in our own hearts first - otherwise we … Continue reading HOW TO BE A PEACEMAKER

"We can no more achieve purity by impure means than we can achieve peace by means of war, or happiness of mankind through terror, or reach God through the intellect alone." This is a quote from the novel "Incognito" by Petru Dumitriu. Dumitriu (1924-2002) was a Romanian-born novelist who experienced the horrors of communist oppression … Continue reading ACHIEVING our dreams

Light is not so much something we can see directly, or touch, even if we can see the source. It is something by which we see all other things. When Jesus Christ calls himself the “Light of the World” (John 8:12), he is not telling us just to look at him, but to live in his … Continue reading LIGHT

At Mt St Bernard’s Abbey yesterday, I tried to empty my mind and focus on my breathing in order to enter into contemplative prayer - as usual, without much success! But I did reflect on breath and air. We cannot see air, and yet it is vital to our world. Air was present before any living … Continue reading PRAYING BY BREATHING

Back in September 2018, I did a drawing whilst I was on my own in the campervan in Derbyshire for ten days. It was a development of an earlier insight and expressed how God is the core of our being and moves within us.   I have now completed a felting picture which expresses how … Continue reading GOD MOVING WITHIN – a felting picture

I am just a microscopically tiny grain of sand, "a drop in the ocean", in this vast, vast universe which has already existed for longer than I can grasp, and contains more drops of water and grains of sand than I can begin to imagine. How insignificant I am. AND YET - God (as Father, … Continue reading I AM JUST A LITTLE GRAIN OF SAND …….

Some random reflections started in Entebbe at 2.30am on Wednesday, 28th November and completed at home on Sunday 2nd December! We’ve been in bed exactly five hours now – and I still haven’t managed to go to sleep in spite of being tired! I just can’t stop my mind going over and over all that … Continue reading FINAL REFLECTIONS

Saturday, 24th November – TESS Alumni Reunion John Omagor came over from Kobwin to see me briefly as there were a couple of things he wanted to discuss. Then we went with Robert to the TESS Alumni Reunion. Robert was the Driver for TESS for nearly 7 years until he left a few months ago … Continue reading LAST DAYS IN UGANDA