Over the years I've done a lot of individual fundraising for charities - walking across England, up Wales, around Scotland, and so on.  This year I'm taking a new challenge and a different - organising a team entry into the Glasgow by Night Pink Ribbon Walk in June.

Many challenges here, not only about fitness, but about team-building and team spirit.  It's easy to go it alone, to zoom round a course at high speed... or slog up a mountain at snail's pace.  A bigger challenge to hold together a team of people of varied fitness and motivation levels.  And I am relishing this.  It means walking the shorter ten mile course rather than aiming for the full twenty; it means walking at the pace of others... it also means conversation, laughter and companionship in the wee small hours.  It should be fun and I look forward to it.

So, for the next six months or so, a 'sponsor me' widget will appear on this blog.  Or you can text us a quid by texting GABB96 to 70070.

And of course this is a good metaphor for church life... gives me much pause for thought on how I participate in my own church...