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Looking at the news and wondering what it all means

Current affairs?

I went caving on Saturday. It was an extraordinary thing; I didn't expect to like it, but I had a chance to go but I had the chance and I do like to try things... The thought of spending a couple of hours in the dark, slithering through narrow gaps half filled with water odesn't sound too appealing. But I was very wrong - it is lots of fun. Perhaps not enough fun to get me doing it every week, but enough fun to make me want to do it again some time. Why do I tell you this, when I am meant to be reflecting on current affairs? Well, because when I was deep underground and completely absorbed in what I was doing it occurred to me that almost nobody in the world knew what I was doing and that I was completely oblivious to what was going on outside. Furthermore it seems to me that this is a good picture of how most of us are most of the time. So not a reflection on a current affair in the media sense today, just a marvelling that God's interest in current affairs is able to encompass yours, and mine, and all of us in our own caves. Certainly he also calls us out to engage with him and others, but he is juts as involved in my cave as he is on Wall Street or Number 10. He's that current...

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