Back to work today, and starting with a draft sermon for Sunday as part of a four week series reflecting on the well known parable of the father with two sons, one of whom stays home and the other goes far away.

This well known and well loved painting will not be featuring, nor will the book by Henri Nouwen reflecting on it, but undoubtedly my thoughts will be influenced by past reading of this, and by the thoughts of Richard Holloway I've also encountered in the past.

It's a rich parable, with oodles of possibilities for sermons - I hope that others will find something interesting, helpful or worth pondering in what I share over these next weeks.

Now - back to the rest of the service!