Yesterday included a visit ot HMP Gartree. The choir had received a card and many verbal messages praising the recent concert. The lads were obviously encouraged. They work hard and it has a visible transforming affect on them. Shame the system does not allow it to credit them. We are losing two of the choir soon. One who has fulfilled his tariff (minimum sentence) and is still waiting a Parole Board hearing is being moved to another Category B prison. Another lad has an appeal pending. Both will be missed but we wish them well. Both are anxious about the change. They both need our prayers.
This morning I was involved in a planning meeting for Holiday at Home, an outreach summer programme that has been run here in Market Harborough for the last two years. It is headed up by the local Methodist Church but others of us support it and share in the programme. Many good ideas are in the pipeline and this will get thinned out to a balanced programme.
In the afternoon I sang and spoke at the local Methodist Wednesday Fellowship Meeting. I took as my theme cluttered lives and did a story telling version of the Martha and Mary story. How easily does our time become cluttered with little or no time to sit at the feet of Jesus! How easily do we substitute our felt need to do things for God rather than being still and receiving what he longs to do for us.
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