Meeting today with Helen to plan training sessions for clusters of churches. And today is World Animal Day, the beginning of World Space Week, International Toot your Flute Day & Improve your Office Day.

And as it is the feast of St Francis of Assisi .....

“He who works with his hands is a labourer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”

“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.“

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”