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On Marcus Bell’s prayer: One of my kids stopped coming six weeks ago. I have texted twice and do not want to become the man who texts a third time. Pray I know the d…

This is the most useful thing anyone has said to me this month.

On Caleb Osei’s prayer: I took the one here. Marcus was right that I already knew. What I actually wanted was for someone to tell me the smaller salary was not a fa…

Proud of you. For the record I did not know either, I just recognised the silence.

On Hannah Lindqvist’s prayer: I mentioned at work that I had been to church and the room changed temperature. Nothing was said. Something was communicated. Pray I am not …

"Not ashamed and also not strange about it" is the whole discipline. Most of us only manage one at a time.

On Caleb Osei’s prayer: Two offers. One pays nearly double and is in a city where I know no one. The other is here, with people who have taught me everything, for m…

I have had that silence. For me it turned out not to be "neither" and not to be "wait" — it was "you already know, you just want me to say it so it is my fault if it goes badly."