At a recent gathering that, at least psychologically, marks the start of my transition into ministerial training I was asked (thank you Michael!) to read out the second half of the poem “I am too alone in the world” by Rainer Maria Rilke. The lines which follow speak directly to a major part of why I have decided to blog:

“I want to unfold
I don’t want to stay folded anywhere,
because where I am folded, there I am a lie.”

And it feels like I have been holding this stuff back, waiting, waiting for ever. Delaying gratification perhaps, as M. Scott Peck might have put it. But there is also the hope, trust even, that it is not pure self indulgence, that even that which, echoing Carl Rogers, feels most personal has its universal aspect, and that you may from time to time resonate with something that is written here. Maybe even the poetry!

I certainly make no great claims to insight but nevertheless let us hope for serendipity…