How ordinary and how human

Morning: Psalm 45; Isaiah 48:12-21; Galatians 1:18-2:10

Evening: Psalms 47, 48; Mark 6:1-13

The hometown crowd took offence when Jesus taught in Nazareth.  He said: ‘Prophets are not without honour, except in their home town, and among their own kin, and in their own house.’  This morning, I arrived back in England to visit my mother.  Now I am no prophet, nor do I presume to teach my family.  Nonetheless, sometimes it feels to me as if people think I am still that teenager, as if I just left - though that was 48 years ago!  Perhaps you, too, can imagine how ordinary and how human was his experience.