There’s nothing more pleasurable, when the enemy’s come at you hard, to kick him where it hurts most, then knee him in the face on the way down! That’s why, I hope and pray, that in the middle of so much aggro, and that possible threat of bowel cancer, it was such a delight to see the miracles last week – deaf ears opened, steel disappearing…. come on, God, I know you’ve already won, but let’s thrash that so-and-so until he wishes he’d never begun!

After a great night’s sleep – after no sleep and a night on the loo! – I’m raring to go again today, and SO looking forward to being with my mate Simon Allaby next Wednesday, for a New Wine Sussex leaders day. I’m really up for an invasion of the supernatural in Furnace Green, Crawley…. what a great named Sunday with a church I love dearly, City Church, Plymouth, on 30th June.

Time is galloping past so fast – were my grandparents right when they said time goes quicker when you’re older, or does everyone feel it’s going faster than ever? – and very soon, it’ll be back to wonderful Cali, Colombia, with Alan & Barbara. Today, too, I booked my flight from London to Mexico City, where my dear friends Benny & Paty Osorio lead a great church: Benny so unlike some Latinos – he’s booked me up already, whereas quite a few wait until they see the whites of your eyes…. I love Mexico, especially the ginormous Mexico City (32 million people, estimated – maybe more! – about 55% of the population of the United Kingdom in one city!). Benny’s family have meant the world to me for 16-17 years or so: one of my greatest privileges was to be involved with Benny & Paty’s wedding: their first son is named Pablo… :). Mum Mimi, brothers Jois and Enrique, and Enrique’s family, also mean the world to me. And their English is brilliant

Looking back over last week, not just the meetings and the wonderful miracles, and thinking about being at the Somme, and the amazing privilege of sharing in Communion/ Requiem, for the thousands of dead still under the ground (never found, but often found in ‘pieces’ by farmers as they plough their fields…), was immense. It’s such a joy to have a ‘fellowship’ of amazing guys around me (and, I suppose, me around them!).

Still the chaos concerning my few shipped possessions from the USA: the moving company have lied through their teeth for the last couple of weeks, and, yesterday, the owner, supposedly a ‘christian’ (small c on purpose) who loves mission, promised to wire the money to the shipping company last night, at latest this morning. Needless to say, it hasn’t been done: and it looks likely that legal action will have to be taken. People I once knew well there are well and truly implicated in this disgraceful procedure. The company holding my stuff in Liverpool won’t release it until they’re paid, understandably: the moving company had my money ($3950 – £2600 approx) 6 weeks ago. The storage charges in Liverpool, which technically are ‘my’ responsibility, but which would be part of something legal in the USA, reached £3744 today…. I don’t have that to pay again….and they’re threatening to consider my stuff as ‘abandoned’ and will dispose of it if I can’t get some answers soon…. Please pray into this, if you DO pray for me: I’ve lost my home and possessions totally three times in the past: and it could happen again…