On route

Hearing people complaining about travel as I journeyed from Sheffield to Heathrow. It makes you smile. For me  by leaving ample time it meant no rush and it was amazingly smooth. Every journey I make in Ghana will start and end with a prayer. We may have pot holes, sometimes in abundance, but it's not like  that across much of Ghana. Tarmac can be a treat!  Even the capital Accra makes Sheffield the city of smooth gentle roads as well as hills.

 But journeys start with prayer because when you don't know whats going to happen in the next hour or two  you learn to live by the 'grace of God' . Having been unwell before this trip I have begun to revisit how to live. Like so many I ask why do we rush around so much? Why do we seek to fill our diaries with stuff, meetings? If we can't answer those questions honestly, and admit to being busy for the sake of being busy, then we con ourselves and deny ourselves real life. 

In starting my sabbatical (a gift from the church to do things but not work) by going to Ghana I hope I will reinforce a changing lifestyle that re focuses on doing less with more time for people. After all at the heart of ministry it is about people. We are not running a business, or in the business of marketing ourselves! We are creating the Kingdom of God and that means peoples lives. And the folk in Ghana would just love the opportunity to have a rail network, let alone like ours.

So off to the airport . Friends are waiting to meet me in Accra.