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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Haydon Spenceley

Good morning.

I spent the first portion of my life as something of an eternal student. Some people in my family are still waiting for me to get a proper job. One of the beauties of studying a fair amount was that in the summer time I could spend a good portion of my non-studying time watching cricket. This is not something that everyone enjoys, I know, but there鈥檚 something calm, rhythmic and almost meditational about some aspects of a County Championship Cricket match that other forms of the game and other sports just can鈥檛 replicate.

It does us good to draw aside and focus on life at a different speed for a while. I find cricket does that for me, even if my working pattern now means I don鈥檛 actually get to watch much of it! There鈥檚 something about the calm and contented hum of spectators around a cricket ground, punctuated by an ice cream van optimistically turning up on a cloudy and windy day which reminds me that productivity and pace isn鈥檛 everything. There鈥檚 a good deal more to life.

This, of course is not a universally held or even all that popular opinion. I know this because all around me and often within myself I am reminded that I am not doing enough and what I am doing is not being done fast enough. Except that isn鈥檛 right, is it? God declares those who love him to be enough just because they are, because he says so, not because of how much or how fast we work or produce things. Perhaps a good reminder for us all as we head into today.

Lord, thank you that I am enough because you declare it to be so. Help me to trust and follow you today.

Amen