Reepham Benefice

Today is D-Day. Before I go to bed tonight, or perhaps tomorrow morning, I need to ensure Daniel has everything he needs to begin setting our website up first thing tomorrow. And each time I think I have got everything off to him, I get another email from him saying “Christopher, there’s just one more thing I need from you.”

Not only that, I have a baptism this afternoon in Wood Dalling. I then, somehow, have got to fit in lunch. I’m meant to spend time with my family and I also got a string of email to answer and all sorts of other things. The list is endless. Giving each job, each person what they want - and when they want it is a constant juggling act - that’s just for today. Have you ever noticed how days are like that? But there are many different people, ideas, notions that pull at you.

People and ideas are constantly tugging us this way and that. The phone rings, there’s at knock at the door and our best laid plans go pair shaped and then we’re left wondering where our priorities lie. We try to listen with the noise of life clambering around us - what are our priorities? What do we need to get done before we go to bed today? Do we ever get everything done? We probably don’t. But of courser there are situations when we can be caught off guard with the busyness of life. And whether consciously or otherwise there are plenty of people around us who want to exploit such situations. I learnt from a very early age that if I wanted an advance in next weeks pocket money, and asked my parents when they were listening, I would get a lecture about the need to save and to wait and be patient...