This is a quick posting...

I've just been home a couple of days after Spring Harvest.  A great week and a great experience.  And now I'm off to London for a meeting of the Chapel Street Community Fund trustees this evening followed by a couple of easy days before I run the Marathon on Sunday.  So I'll let you know how I get on as soon as I get back home on Monday.

For the moment, I'll content myself with answering the question that people sometimes ask when they know you're running the Marathon:  Why on earth do you do it?  There are several answers...

• Because I can!  I just feel so fortunate and blessed to be able to do it.
• Because it feels great when you've done it.
• Because it's the ideal event for people like me who love sport but who've never been any good at it.  Anyone can run the Marathon who can put one foot in front of the other and keep doing it.
• Because there's no other sport in the world where they'd let me take part in the same event as the really good people.  I'll be runing with (well, I'll be running a long way behind, actually) some world-class athletes.
• Because people give me money for good causes when I do it.
• Because I get to do it with lots of other people.
• Because the crowd cheers me on.

Now, if you read through those bullet points again.  You'll discern another reason.  It's the ideal event for a preacher!  It's full of parallels with the Christian life.  But I'll let you work those out for yourself.

If you have been, thanks for listening...