This week has been quite fascinating, both personally and professionally. In my line of ‘work’, it is difficult to separate the two. Professionally, I have done the usual round of things (taken services: communions, funerals, wedding rehearsal, baptism preparation); asking the odd question or two as I did so. Examples of the questions I have asked, are who are funerals for and why do we ask people to say things they cannot subscribe to in order to baptise children. You will find I have asked those questions for over a decade and still not come up with answers that are constant.

Personally, I have been beating myself up all week. A number of months ago, I buckled under pressure and found myself doing something that I have found it a struggle to live with. What has been more difficult to live with has been the grace of forgiveness.

I have also been reading a book about play. I need to make time to do that. Then perhaps Fridays would not be so diffident, weeks not so difficult; and I might rejoice more often in the glory of being human.