Watching the final Relay races at Tokyo reminds me of the start of the Relay Programme in the UK.
The idea of this internship was born in a chat with Nigel Lee walking round a golf course in Leamington Spa.
I had known him for a number of years through OM and he had recently started working with UCCF. I was planning to finish my time with the organisation at the end of the year and he asked
“If I was trying to persuade you to stay to help lead some change and you could do anything you wanted to do, what would it be?”
This is number thirty six of a series that began life as a commitment to Counting my Blessings every day after ankle surgery on July 2nd 2021.
Initially I made a brief post on social media and wrote a personal daily reflection on a Psalm following the same numerical progression.
Later on in the 100 days I began to also reflect on other scriptures and combine those into my public post
These thoughts from Psalms earlier in the journey have not been made public until now as I was writing primarily for my own benefit. I have been encouraged to share these now.