Be Still And Know

Ephesians 5:15-17 NLT 'So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.' My dad was distinctly unexcited about my choice to enter Christian ministry on leaving Oxford. One piece of advice from him I still remember from that time is: “Remember that good habits will always create fresh opportunities.” I’ve become increasingly grateful for this wisdom, even though it has taken me time to determine to build my daily life on good habits. When we moved into the Oratory, we were presented with a wonderful, relatively large garden. It was a blank canvas in that it had hedges each side and was laid to lawn. The hedges were high and dense, and we gazed upon a sea of green. There were no flowerbeds at all. It offered ample opportunity for a low-maintenance garden with just mowing the lawn and trimming the hedges. However, it also offered an opportunity to imagine an