If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven’t, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

Nothing worthwhile is easy.

We live in stories the way fish live in water.

This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.