It was a recommendation I spotted on a ministers online forum a while back and made a note to add it to my reading list for this sabbatical and I'm glad I did! There is a lot of thought provoking content about vision and mission linking into the idea of pilgrimage so I've made some notes and will be continuing to ponder on what God has been bringing to my attention.
The book concluded with a prayer from a Lutheran book of worship that has strong echoes with my pilgrim prayer from my pilgrimage in Italy: https://revalitaylor.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-prayer-of-pilgrim.html?m=1 So I printed it out and spent some time engaging with it creatively whilst I thought about the words so I could add it to my spiritual journal and put it alongside a copy of the pilgrims prayer.
Alongside doing more reading I popped into town last Sunday and attended Gas Street Central Church. During lockdown I'd come across 'Family at 4' - an online worship session for families that I encouraged the Bunyan church families to connect with whilst we couldn't meet in person. The sessions were led by Nick and Becky Drake and their children and through this I discovered they were worship leaders at Gas Street Central. In engaging with the worship times they shared some of their great songs including 'Every step' which I'd sung the week before at Bunyan and have since introduced at YBC. So now, with Gas Street being way more local to me than when I lived in Stevenage I thought this would be a good opportunity to visit. Had Nick and Becky been there I would have thanked them for all they did during lockdown, but although they weren't there one of the songs was a new one by them. It was a great reworking of 'Jesus' love is very wonderful' that I'd love to sing again sometime - if you fancy a listen yourself then here's a link to Becky herself singing it: https://youtu.be/MVnXGi6fiB4?si=f5Usy_68NZiSm9g- One for YBC in the future maybe?!
