I know that it was not the most serious news of the week, but did you hear that they have mended the toilet on the international space station? What got me was that it had been broken for two weeks before they fixed it. What did they do for two weeks without a loo on the space station? There aren't exactly any bushes to pop behind, are there? I am sure that there are solutions, and I am equally sure I don't want to think too much about them, but this does raise the point that there are some needs that are urgent! I wonder whether that is partly why the church is so much more vibrant in parts of the world that are less comfortable. In the west we are, perhaps too molly-coddled, shielded from our real needs. The bible says that all of us sin; all of us need cleaning up, and only God can do it. Sometimes, I think, we need to wake up and see the urgency of our need.