Sometimes there are those 'hmmm' moments that help me detect what God might be saying or doing, and this week there have been a few...

Spotting a link between the two services I've just done related to Safeguarding (on 'listening well' and 'forgiveness') and the series I am about to lead, which is a revisit of one I led in Dibley in 2006 and at The Gathering Place in 2018 looking at the women in Jesus' genealogy.

And then a link from both of these to the Bible Study series someone else is leading on the OT Joseph (him of the fancy coat).

And even a link to the Lent Series I'll be leading based on the film 'The Greatest Showman'.

Maybe, as someone wise said to me a lifetime ago, it's me making the connections, but I like to think that God has something to do with it.

Tomorrow I'm preaching about Tamar - one the stories that the Bible study series jumps past.  It's a story that is decidedly difficult to read as being remotely 'holy writ'.  It's interesting to reflect on the dysfunctional ancestry of Jesus of Nazareth, and to ponder what that might say about God.