I recently bought a book on body language….a subject that intrigues me, especially in my ministry as i love ‘people watching’. Now straight away those of you who meet me,as part of the church or circuit, may well become self conscious at the next time we meet. Don’t worry, i don’t look out for body language all the time ! But I’m told it can tell an awful lot about a person

Which was put to the test yesterday when i watched part of Tony Blair’s questioning at the Iraq inquiry. Just watch those hand movements go !!

which is why communication  by e-mail,Facebook,blogetc is so limiting….. you can’t see my reaction as i write this,nor can i see how you are responding to this ! Which is why, more and more, i think we need the ‘oil of grace’ poured in abundance in responding to e-mails etc. I compare it to how we used to (some still do !!) take time to compose a letter, take it to be posted and then wait for a reply….all of that taking time in which there was opportunity to withdraw the letter if we had second thoughts about something we had written. Pressing this ‘Send’ button is too easy and quick sometimes !

Grace….now there’s an ancient virtue which the Christian faith speaks allot about. And i can’t help thinking that it’s a good job God has it in abundance otherwise he might be pressing a few ’send’ buttons very quickly when we get things wrong !   But i also can’t help pondering what body language God has in response to all that we do….any suggestions ??