I’ve been to a training day today in Nuthall Methodist Church in Nottingham which was good stuff. It was good to not only be at a quality event run by the Church which was worth going to, but also to meet folk I’ve not seen for a while like my friend Chris who was with Fiona whose husband Phil was in college with us; John Ritson who was one of my neighbouring Superintendents in the South East; Lynda Johnson who is from Nottingham but who I knew from when she used to visit friends in Hastings and Adam Stevenson, my Superintendent in the Fens.
The day began with a puzzle. The Wi-Fi code was written on a flip chart. We all put it into our devices. A room full of ministers and circuit stewards can’t survive without the internet! None of could get on. It turned out the man had written an a in upper case and it should have lower. We needed him to rectify his mistake. We couldn’t look at things we needed to look
at if he hadn’t made it right.
Part of what is wrong with the world is that people don’t put right their mistakes or admit to them. They even sometimes try and make out it wasn’t them who made the mistake. Perhaps part of the Lenten journey needs us to be more accountable to others and fess up when we’ve made a mess of things that stops others flourishing. When we admit to God it’s gone wrong, the grace of God reaches out to us. When we pretend we are blameless then we have it seriously wrong.
Maybe today we take a leave out of G K Chesterton’s book. He answered his own question in a newspaper. “Sir, what is wrong with the world? I am.”
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