Imagine the scene. The sunshine is glorious as you lie in the grass, shaded by the overhanging boughs of a tree. Up above, the sky is a magnificent shade of blue with not a single wisp of cloud on the horizon. Close by you can see a small brook, and the gentle, rhythmic murmur ofContinue reading “Green Pastures – or the Trash Heap?”
Author Archives: Matt Parker
Across the Railway Line
This is a short description of a visit to the Misisi slum, in Lusaka, Zambia. Although written several years ago, the suffering of people who live “across the railway line” is no different today… You step across the railway line to get into the Misisi slum. And, when you cross the line, you enter aContinue reading “Across the Railway Line”
Looking for God’s fingerprints
Life is full of bitter disappointments. Relationships that we cherish flounder. We experience unexpected loss, and struggle with the grief that goes with it. We may have had great hopes that are dashed or plans that fail despite our best efforts…
What great advice has helped shape your leadership?
“What advice resonated most with you when you started out in a leadership role?” This was a question that a colleague recently asked me as we discussed leadership growth. Over the past 25 years, I have worked with many different leaders and have learned from each of them, receiving a lot of wise counsel along theContinue reading “What great advice has helped shape your leadership?”
Hope amid suffering in Myanmar
The atmosphere in the city’s slum is stifling. Bouts of heavy rainfall have left the streets – and many of the houses – waterlogged or flooded, yet between the downpours the temperatures and humidity rise steadily and the air soon becomes oppressive. But there is a greater sense of heaviness, ominous and menacing, that lingersContinue reading “Hope amid suffering in Myanmar”
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