Middle Age Book Alert

I treated myself to this book before half term and I've been enjoying slowly dipping in and out of it. There's a chapter called 'Thinking' where the author conveys how he, and a list of other greats, have used walking as a way of thinking. I wholeheartedly agree with that and know that some of my best ideas have come when walking, running or cycling. If I'm having a creative block with something at work I know that the best thing I can do is leave my car on the drive and take the slow walk to work. This usually solves my creative block.

Yesterday I decided that despite how ugly the weather was, I'd get my gear on and do a long, slow run. I've had a funding proposal that's been bothering me for weeks and all it took was 60 minutes of running to straighten out the problem in my head.

The chapter I'm currently reading is entitled 'Remembering' and talks about walking as a way of connecting with the past and allowing God to walk alongside you as you remember. I was particularly struck by a poem that a 13 year old Princess Elizabeth suggested that her father, King George, read to a Nation in the midst of war:

"And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown'.
And he replied:
'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.'
So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night.
And He led me towards the hills
and the breaking of day in the lone East."


A good poem for today, don't you think?

If any blipper wants to read this book after me, give me a shout and I can post it. Anything to stop another sale on Amazon ;-)