I have just finished reading Lucy Winkett's Our Sound is Our Wound, the 2010 Archbishop's Lent Book.  It is an honest and brave exploration of a range of topics through the metaphor of sound.  If anything I found it a 'noisy' book - each chapter full to bursting with ideas, quotations and anecdotes.  For me, with a linear mind, it didn't quite work, and I found it too busy, too buzzy... almost becoming a noise in its own right.  But that quite possibly says more about me than the book - a quick trawl of the Internet suggests others have found it profoundly helpful.

What it did remind me of, though, is the need for occasional stillness, of time to be quiet, of the moments, often late at night, when I swear I do hear the angels singing, if only fleetingly, before consciousness dulls my sensitivity.

Not one for my 'top tips' but definitely readable and accessible.

For Palm Sunday I am planning an extended dramatisation of part of Luke's gospel for our morning worship.  With a cast of around 20 (including a bit of doubling up) arranging a 'run through' is quite important.  The biggest unknown is whether the person allocated to play Jesus will be available - just a minor inconvenience...

Someone pointed out to me that 'Jesus' is studying motor-sport engineering, and is rather preoccupied with F1 at the moment... but also that Jesus seems to do fair bit of 'driving' too.

So to Luke 19:45...

He entered the temple area and began driving out those who were selling...

Now a whole new image comes to mind!

Anyway, all things being equal we'll have a good experience of Holy Week when we get there.