Day 34 Part 1 - retracing a homeward journey

I began the day at Trinity College by breakfasting with some of the students. I was delighted to find that John Bimson, my old tutor, was at work. We chatted in his study, where our pastoral group had met each week.

From Trinity I followed the route which I used to cycle, onto the main A4, through Sea Mills and into Shirehampton. For the first time on this adventure I was retracing one of my old homeward journeys.

I paused at our old house at 29 Dursley Road, then met up as arranged with Arran, who had been our next-door neighbour with his mum Tricia, sister Tanya and brother Kyle. Arran and I walked down to The Lamplighters pub, on the banks of the Avon. These really were old haunts and memories came flooding back.

We walked together up to Shirehampton Infants and Junior Schools, remembering how Arran and my sons Jon and Phil would share this journey so often.

There was, I suppose, a tangential connection with my walking verse for Day 34: Amos 3.3, "Do two walk together unless they have made an appointment?"

It's part of a sequence of rhetorical questions about causation, the point being that as God speaks judgement he will also act to bring it about.

I'd shared little bits of my journey the previous day before with Wendy, and now with Arran. Conversation unfolds easily when you're walking with a companion.

(continued in part 2)