Thank you for the NHS

I have an unusual medical condition (Multifocal Motor Neuropathy) which means a day in hospital once a month for treatment (with intravenous immunoglobulin, which is an infusion of white blood cells). The Norfolk & Norwich Hospital let me come in regulalry on the first Friday of each month. I have eight bottles on a drip and I am allowed to change them myself, which means I just have to find a way to pass the time for about seven hours.

I always intend to use the time productively. I have written parts of a sermon or my contribution to Sprowton News. I also try to catch up on reading. It is not always easy to concentrate. However, today I did read "Faith in Suburbia" by Malcolm Brown. It is an area about which very little has (yet) been written, but understanding the contemporary culture of suburbia is going to be very important for the future of a mission-shaped church.

This Sunday's Gospel:

He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him
Mark 1.13