I wonder how many people are travelling through the Holy Land with Christian Aid's Online Pilgrimage? http://lentpilgrimage.christianaid.org.uk/?p=175
Today's stopping point, the Church of the Nativity, has become a tourist attraction and bears little similarity to the humble place where Jesus was born. Today's commentary suggests that Jesus is not in the shrine, but in the shops, cafes and markets that surround the church - in his people.
In a Circuit where the future of our old buildings is uncertain and the prospect of "letting go" of bricks and mortar causes so many tensions and disagreement, I am pleased to be reminded that it is people that count, God is to be found in people and not in empty buildings. The dwelling place for God inside us is a humble heart.

I have decided that Lent is a good time to start a Blog, a sort of online -journal of musings and reflections.
Today I have been thinking about what it means to be a disciple of Christ. How easy it is to say "Yes, I am a Christian, I follow Jesus." How difficult it is to be a true follower, to put God and God's ministry first, before everything else and to commit our whole selves to God. If we were better disciples, how different would the world be? If we all were prepared to take up the cross willingly and deny self, the Church in this world would surely be the glorious thing it was intended to be? I am sometimes embarrassed and ashamed when I look at the slightly tawdry, grubby church we have created, when we should have presented God and the world with a spotless, glorious creation.
I fail every day in my discipleship, I never come up to expectations. But thank God for the unconditional love that still surrounds me, surrounds us all.