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A while ago we took our children for a walk along the Pembrokeshire coastal path.听 Time and again we rounded a corner to be struck by the awesome beauty of the earth, the sea and sky. But the sense of occasion was sometimes shattered with one of the youngsters asking 鈥楢re we there yet dad?

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I tried to explain the simple joys of a journey, appreciating the wonder of the moment, but understandably they only wanted to know how long before we found the ice cream van. At times it can be difficult for adults, let alone children to appreciate that the most important things really can happen when we are neither here nor there, but simply on our way.

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One day when on a journey Jesus met ten lepers at a place that the Bible says was somewhere on the outskirts of an unnamed village. This was as close to nowhere as you'd get and such a deserted spot was probably the only place the lepers might call home.听

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But it鈥檚 at this in-between location that a miracle really happens. It鈥檚 here that Jesus meets them where they are, indeed where they have no choice but to be, and he heals them. He does so perhaps reminding us that it鈥檚 often outside the settled circles of social acceptability and arenas of religious devotion that God is听found to be at work.

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As we round each new corner in our lives, we may not yet be ready to reach our planned destination. But we can know that it is often as we go between one thing and another that God can come to us in unexpected ways and in the most surprising faces.

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Dear God

we often feel uncomfortable

caught between one thing and another

but as we journey on through changes听

come to what we are听

and lead us into the fullness of what we听 might become in you

Amen.听