a lovely guy from our church has written such a great report back from his time away that you have to see it. It echoes woderfully the first time I encountered Jackie Pullinger - mainly the way he describes the interraction with god that goes on and how they seem to actually understand that god is real and give him the respect and space to be so.
I love how he's written so humbly and how it's handy he's done it as I have been unable to without getting frustrated and cross and now I can just point people to him!
Thanks Andy!

when hard things come along in life it's a strange realisation to think that when you were young and your parents had hard stuff come along you'd look at it and feel safe that they were 'adults' and so would know what to do and be grown up and sort it out. As i get older I realise that actually no-one ever 'grows' up - your parents didn't ever really know what they were doing, it just seemed like it to the little people around them. They just muddled through and hoped (and prayed in some cases). hard times now just mean being more and more like a little girl again and trying to just let myself fall into the lap of the one who really does knwo what he's doing.