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CINEMAS ARE ALL FIRED UP ABOUT ERIC LIDDELL

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A CLASSIC athletics film is getting a rerun. Chariots of Fire, the 1981 portrayal of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams’s efforts to win gold at the 1924 Olympics, has been digitally remas-tered and was released in cinemas yesterday (Friday 13 July) ahead of the 2012 Games.

Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) starts out as a Cambridge student with an impressive turn of pace. He wants to put that pace to good

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Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson)

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PARTNERS of Christian Aid are providing food and household items to peo-ple being driven from their homes by torrential monsoon rains in Bangladesh. Crops have been destroyed and fish hatcheries and poultry farms devastated.

Christian Aid says that 54,000 households have been displaced and are facing shortages of fresh drinking water, food and fuel. Many are taking temporary shel-

ter in school buildings or on roadsides.

In response, partners of the UK-based development agency are handing out par-cels containing rice, lentils, oil, salt and sugar as well as household items including plastic sheets and soap.

of singing at the Royal Opera House.

Adele Armstrong – who lives at Ann Fowler House, a Salvation Army Lifehouse for homeless people in Liverpool – took part in the With One Voice concert in London. The concert was organised as part of the London 2012 Festival to showcase talent among people affected by homelessness.

Adele performed at the Covent Garden venue with Kabin Krew, a Liverpool-based music, poetry and drama group. Since arriving at Ann Fowler House,

she has taken part in activities including gardening, drama and baking. She has also undertaken training to gain further

qualifications and certificates.

‘When I first came to Liverpool, I don’t think I would have had the strength to

try anything like this,’ she said. ‘The Salvation Army is helping me get back on my feet and I’m really thankful.’

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Food for monsoon evacuees

SALVATION Army teams provided food, water and counselling to residents of the Waldo Canyon area of Colorado, where a wildfire razed hundreds of homes and caused tens of thousands of people to be evacuated.

The teams ran feeding operations at a number of shelters.

In Fort Collins The Salvation Army provided clothing and food boxes to evacuees escaping a smaller wildfire. A spiritual care team also offered a listening ear to evacuees.

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NEW SERIES:

A WOMAN whose ancestors served as church

pastors in Singapore and Malacca has become the first South-East Asian woman to become an ordained minister in the Church of England. The Rev Eileen Harrop was ordained by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Canterbury Cathedral.

SALVATION Army member John Willson carries the Olympic flame through Hatfield Peverel. He was nominated to become a torch-bearer for his work in bringing the sport of archery to young people across the UK. Over the years, John, who is now a coach of Archery GB, has taught the sport to many young people, including those at the Hadleigh Temple Salvation Army church, where he is a member.

A SURVIVOR of domestic violence has thanked The Salvation Army for helping her to rebuild her life and fulfil her dream

APPEARANCE AT ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

Concert is event of note as Adele finds strength

Course of justice

Teams help in US fires

THOUSANDS DISPLACED IN BANGLADESH

THREE Christian organisations have teamed up to produce a set of resources to encourage churches to play a greater role in campaigning for social justice.

Micah Challenge, Compassion and Christian Aid’s nine-week course, the Jesus Agenda, is being trialled in churches over the summer. It shows how churches in Peru, Nigeria and the US are fighting poverty and corruption.

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use in competition. But he has a challenge to overcome – some people treat him with disdain because he is Jewish.

Different challenges lie ahead for Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson). The Scottish athlete is a Christian and is unsure whether his personal best is to give his time to running or to spreading the gospel. His sister fears his athletics might distract him from stepping out in mission work, but Eric finds that it is possible to combine running with religion. He can race and follow up a win with some preaching.

And by running well, he honours God. ‘I believe God made me for a purpose,’ he says. ‘But he also made me fast, and when I run, I feel his pleasure.’

Harold and Eric are bound for Olympic glory in Paris. But as Eric boards the boat for France, a reporter breaks some unwelcome news: the heats for his event, the 100m, are to be held on a Sunday.

Eric refuses to run on ‘the Lord’s day’. High and mighty figures – including royalty – put pres-sure on him to run for his country, but he refuses to ‘make that sacrifice’ of his beliefs.

However, there is hope round the corner when another member of the British team gives up his place in the 400m so that Eric can run. He does. And the rest, as they say, is history … at least generally.

The film uses dramatic licence – but it’s start-ing point is factual. Eric Liddell did refuse to run the 100m on a Sunday because of his Christian beliefs. He did see a purpose to his life. And – though the exact circumstances may have been different from those shown in the film – he did receive a note during the Olympics that read: ‘In the old book it says: He that honours me, I will honour.’

The ‘old book’ was important to the real-life Eric. When he gave up athletics and became a missionary, he encouraged people to read the Bible every day, because it pointed towards the love of God.

When asked in an interview whether he regret-ted exchanging athletics and the limelight for missionary work, Eric said: ‘It’s natural for a chap to think over all that sometimes. But I’m glad I’m at the work I’m engaged in now. A fel-low’s life counts far more for this than the other. Not a corruptible crown, but an incorruptible one.’

Eric saw that everyone has the honour of being loved by God with a love that does not fade but lasts for ever. That love was revealed in Jesus – ‘a living, personal everyday Saviour’, as he wrote in one letter to an Edinburgh Sunday school teacher. And everyone can know that love if they turn to Jesus.

As Eric knew, those whose ambition is to discover God’s love are on the right track.

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In a king-sized tent in Kensington Gardens, London, audiences are watching a version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe featuring video, music and a huge Aslan puppet voiced by David Suchet. Producer CHARLIE BURNELL tells Philip Halcrow

When did you first encounter the book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?

I think it was read to me as a child back in the Sixties, and I was enthralled by it. I remember being slightly concerned that Lucy wouldn’t be able to find her way back to the wardrobe and might get stuck in Narnia – but as I recall she liked being there so it wasn’t an issue for her at all. Then I read or was read Prince Caspian. I am not sure that I read any of the other books until much, much later.

How did you come to put it on the stage?

When the film came out in 2005, I thought I would reread the book. At that point I wasn’t thinking about staging it. When we launched Threesixty in 2009, I produced Peter Pan. Very swiftly after that, I began to pursue the rights to do the stage version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, because on every level it felt the right show for us to do.

Why did it seem right?Threesixty provides a

multidisciplinary, multimedia storytelling environment, and I felt The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe had everything for us – an epic story, big themes, strong male and female characters. I saw that it would lend itself to huge, visual storytelling and that we could use puppetry and our video environment to create the set.

What aspects of the production have audiences been reacting to?

The design by Tom Scutt has been a hit, particularly the puppet of Aslan. We had to think long and hard about how we would bring Aslan to life on stage. The audience have to wait a long time to see him – he doesn’t appear until the beginning of the second half of the show, so we have to do the first half and get through the interval before

about why C. S. Lewis’s story still speaks to children and adults

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anyone sees him. But I like to think he is worth the wait.

What is it about The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that means people still enjoy it 60 years after it was written?

There is probably a bit of the escapist in all of us, and it appeals to that side of us. These kids are evacuated to a big country house where they can – and do – run riot, and they get even further away from any kind of responsibilities they have by going through a portal into a completely new world. So it is about leaving everything behind, and that is part of the appeal.

There is also a sense of adventure – the children have a battle to fight and they find out that they are going to be kings and queens of the land.

Like many epic stories, it speaks to adults and children at the same time but

in different ways. The children in the audience like to go on the adventure and the adults probably see that it would be a great thing to be able to escape everything.

But then, of course, there are also the very clear Christian themes in the story. I am a Christian, and I see The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as the most beautiful Christian allegory ever.

When I chose the story for the stage, I did so from a commercial standpoint, because I thought it would be a good story for Threesixty to tell; but as a Christian I love the themes that will be recognised by Christians and non-Christians alike.

The story may sow – or water – seeds of interest in those themes in some of the audience, and I like that.

In putting the show together, have you been struck by an aspect of the

story in a new way?I particularly like David Suchet’s

vocal portrayal of Aslan. Everyone else is urgent and rushing forward, but – because he is such a clever actor – David takes the speech of Aslan very slowly. Aslan’s speech is measured and has great depth. By speaking in that way, he exudes peace. It creates a wonderful atmosphere and it gives me an insight into what it might be

like to be in the presence of Christ. Everyone else is rushing around, going about their business, but when this extraordinary personality is with you, everything slows down and you feel calm and safe.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is at the Threesixty Theatre, Kensington Gardens, until 9 September

Aslan’s speech is measured and has great depth. By speaking in that way, he exudes peace

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‘THE search for the “God particle” is over,’ reported the Daily Mail.

According to the paper, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva have identified a particle which looks like the Higgs boson, or ‘God particle’.

One physicist has compared the significance of the sighting to the first Moon landing and Columbus discovering America.

Rolf Heuer – the director-general of Cern, which is the home of the Large Hadron Collider – said: ‘We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature.’

Professor Peter Higgs, who in 1964 proposed the concept of the particle, was present at the announcement.

The paper explained: ‘The Higgs boson’s role is to give the particles that make up atoms their mass. Without this mass, they would zip round the cosmos, unable to bind together to form the atoms that make stars and planets – and people.’

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THE UK has a dirty little secret. It is the sexual exploitation of children. Exposed from a young age to suggestive images and explicit song lyrics in the mainstream media, children are being forced into sexual activity through the internet, smart phones and social networking.

Last month, the Deputy Children’s Commissioner Sue Berelowitz gave evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on the localised grooming of young people for sex. This followed the conviction in May of nine members of a sex ring in Rochdale and Oldham who had groomed girls to be shared with their associates.

Speaking to MPs, Ms Berelowitz said that ‘sexual exploitation of children is happening all over the country’. In parts of London, she continued, ‘children expect to have to perform … on line-ups of boys, up to two hours at a time, from the age of 11’.

Last week, Ms Berelowitz published her report into child grooming. It reveals that a disproportionate number of victims live in care homes.

She writes: ‘Children have told me how they have been abducted and serially raped by multiple perpetrators; how they have lost all sense of self-respect and come to believe that they are worthless. Tragically this can too often be compounded by adults refusing to believe them when they try to tell someone about what is happening.’

The Government is undertaking reform of England’s children’s homes. It needs to. One MP claims that 15 known sex offenders live in the same street as a number of children’s homes in his constituency. Children’s homes are set up in places where property is cheaper. Rochdale, with 47, has more children’s homes than the whole of Inner London.

This means many children are being moved into a completely new environment. Sometimes it may be for their own protection. But to some children it must feel like they’re being exploited.

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THE National Trust has defended its decision to include references to creationist theory in a new visitors’ centre at the Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland, reported The Guardian.

The trust had been criticised for including a theory that the planet is only 6,000 years old in information about how people have believed the causeway was formed. The paper quoted a spokesman, who said: ‘We reflect, in a small part of the exhibition, that the causeway played a role in the historic debate about the formation of the Earth, and that for some people this debate continues today.’

Causeway creates controversy

LORD Lloyd-Webber told the Radio Times how Jesus Christ Superstar progressed from being an album to a stage produc-tion in the 1970s.

The magazine reported that the musical was first made as an album, with Deep Purple’s Ian Gillan taking the role of Jesus. When it reached America, the songs were performed as rock shows. Lord Lloyd-Webber admitted that there was ‘never any idea, initially, of the record being done as a stage show’.

He said: ‘[Lyricist] Tim Rice and I would never at that time have thought anybody would be remotely interested in putting it on, particularly with that subject.’

But, he said, the album ‘was probably the biggest thing in America since the Beatles’.

Today, he believes ‘the songs work best when performed as a rock concert’, which is how they will be staged after the final of the ITV1 competition Superstar.

Speaking about the programme – in which the public helps to decide who will take the leading role of Jesus in the new production – he revealed why he asked Vicar of Dibley star

Dawn French to be one of the judges.‘She’s everybody’s favourite vicar so I thought we’d better

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AS a nation we are obsessed with do-it-yourself projects around the home – and there are the queues at accident and emergency departments to prove it.

According to government figures, about 50,000 people are hurt in mishaps at home every week. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents estimates that 4,000 people are DIY enthusiasts who didn’t take the right precautions.

Damage caused by couples trying to copy TV makeover experts is also sending insurance claims through the roof.

DIY expert Neil Carmody said: ‘Typical mishaps include damage to hidden pipes, paint spilt on carpets and damage to stereo equipment.

‘As well as thinking through all potential safety hazards, it clearly pays to be prepared with insurance prior to beginning the next DIY project.’

If you do decide to go ahead on your own, take the following precautions:

Make sure that you have all the necessary

equipment and accessories before you begin.

Don’t try to bodge something with the wrong tool or fitting – you could end up injuring yourself or making an expensive mistake.

Be certain to turn off your water, gas or electricity supplies if appropriate.

Keep your work area tidy and uncluttered by tools and equipment, particularly when there are other people around.

If you have to move furniture, don’t place it in such a way that children will want to climb on it.

Make sure paint, chemicals, matches and sharp tools are out of the reach of children at all times.

Make sure you know where hidden pipes and wires are before drilling through walls, ceilings or floors.

If you have to use a ladder, ask someone to hold it steady at the bottom.

Whatever equipment you are working with, always follow the manufacturer’s instructions to the

letter.

Never attempt DIY when you are tired, in

a rush or stressed.

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Christian holiday organisation Oak Hall has been offering the complete package for 50 years

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happy holidays

‘Other people heard about it and asked if they could come on a trip. So we bought an old London bus for £400 and went off as a group of 26. On our first few expeditions we went camping in France, Switzerland and Portugal. Our old bus could only travel at 35mph but we made it there and back in one piece.’

Ian says that as the years went by, Oak Hall acquired ‘better’ trans-

port. The organisa-tion started running trips in which groups drove from London to Jerusalem and Moscow, among other places.

Ian describes

some of the various kinds of trips that Oak Hall runs today.

‘We take groups to the mountains, so we go to places such as Austria and also Switzerland, where we take over an entire hotel,’ he says. ‘It’s great fun. When we visit the Black Forest in Germany, we stay in a beautiful converted farmhouse with an indoor swimming pool.

‘When it comes to beach holidays, we visit countries such as Spain, Italy, Greece and Malta. We offer guests the chance to go on excursions, but they are also welcome to do their own thing.

‘Some of our most popular expe-

The organisation’s founder is Ian Mayo. He explains how and why Oak Hall got started.

‘When I was a teenager, I regularly went on church camps,’ he says. ‘They were wonderful. When I turned 18, I became too old for the camps, unless I attended them as a leader.

‘I saw a number of my friends become Christians and I wanted to take them on a trip similar to the ones that I had experienced. But we were too old for teenage camp.

‘None of us had any money, so we went round our home town of Caterham with wheelbarrows and asked people for their old magazines and newspa-pers. When we had collected enough, we sold them for recycling and bought an old ambulance. We put bus seats in the back and 13 of us set off on what we called an expedition.

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SINCE the 1960s, Oak Hall has been running worldwide

Christian expeditions. Each year, some 7,000 holidaymakers take a trip with the organisation, visiting a variety of locations, including Scotland, Italy, Sweden, Russia and Morocco. Whether a guest wants to lie on a beach, ski down mountains or cycle across country, Oak Hall aims to meet their needs. It also offers trips that give a taste of what it’s like to be a missionary.

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ditions are the camping and cycling hol-idays. Guests are put into small groups under a cycle leader, depending on the kind of holiday they are after. There are three groups – the Olympic group (for keen cyclists), the leisurely group and the coffee and cake group. This last group have a bit longer to enjoy each of the villages that they cycle to.’

As well as offering people time to relax, Oak Hall runs expeditions that challenge and inspire. Some of the holi-days – for instance, those to China and the safari in Zimbabwe – encourage people to embrace a completely differ-ent culture.

Mission trips are also set up, Ian says, to give people ‘a taste of mission’, in case they want to go into more per-manent overseas work.

‘We run our taster mission trips to Peru and Serbia. In Peru, we link up with the Christian organisation Scripture Union, which has various centres and works with abandoned street children. And in Serbia – where we have made 67 trips over the years – we take aid to refugees.’

Ian is delighted and surprised by the success of Oak Hall. Today, it runs expeditions on most weeks of the year. About 20 people work full-time for the organisation and 350 help out part-time. People who holiday with Oak Hall often book again and again.

‘The aim of our expeditions is to bring together like-minded people who enjoy the abundant life that Jesus gives,’ says Ian. ‘Holiday means “holy day”, so on our expeditions we invite people to take time away from work to contemplate in pleasurable surround-ings what life is really all about.’

Although many Christians attend the Oak Hall expeditions, the trips also welcome those making no profession of faith.

‘Each evening on our trips there is an hour’s meeting

in which guests can hear Bible teach-ing by one of our leaders,’ Ian says. ‘The meetings are optional – so there is no pressure to attend – but they are presented in such a way that they are accessible for everyone, Christian or not.

‘We get quite a lot of non-Christians attending our skiing trips, because we work hard to keep costs down and they are impressed that they can afford to come. They often ask, “Do I have to go to the religious bit in the even-ing?” and we tell them that the choice is theirs. But once non-Christians in the group have been out skiing all day with Christians, they often find they want to

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tact with one another. People want to have time to talk.’

Ian admits that he loves his job. By the end of this year he expects to have been on seven Oak Hall trips.

‘My next expedition is to Israel,’ he says. ‘We run about ten trips to Israel every year. This particular trip is a great opportunity for people to stand in the very places where the Bible events occurred. I’m definitely at my happiest when I’m on an Oak Hall trip.’

But Ian is also quick to point out that the success of the organisation is not down to himself, but to God.

‘At our base, we start every morn-ing with prayers,’ he says. ‘We give glory to God for his faithfulness to us. None of this would have happened if it weren’t for him. We give him thanks because week by week, year by year, people write to us, saying that our holi-days have helped them.

‘Our hope is that our expeditions will encourage people and enable them to feel refreshed in their Christian faith, so that when they go back home to their churches, they are enthusiastic to serve.’

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come to the evening meetings, simply to find out what everyone is enjoying.’

Guests frequently write to the staff at Oak Hall, thanking them for their hard work. On returning from Montenegro, one guest wrote to Ian, saying that they enjoyed ‘stunning scenery, fantastic weather, but above all fantastic fellow-ship’.

And friendship is a key part of an Oak Hall trip. The size of the groups on any expedition ranges from 20 to 140. The trips are open to all ages, though they are aimed at those in their twenties and thirties.

‘After every holiday we invite the guests to our base, which is a manor house in Kent, for a reunion weekend. They can share photos and keep in con-

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Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9

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ACROSS1. Flamboyant (5)5. Bay (5)8. Brother of

Moses (5)9. Back tooth (5)10. Rendezvous (5)11. Ingenuous (5)12. Ballet skirt (4)15. Elizabeth,

Jane Austen character (6)

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10 Tryst. 11 Naive. 12 Tutu. 15 Bennet. 17 Boxer. 18 Heeded. 20 Stem. 25 Elude. 26 Sheaf. 27 Libra. 28 Igloo. 29 React. 30 Nerve.

DOWN: 1 Gambit. 2 Umlaut. 3 Yarns. 4 Frail. 5 Integer. 6 Layman. 7 Titbit. 13 Use. 14 Rod. 15 Beg. 16 Eye. 17 Benefit. 18 Hussar. 19 Eczema. 21 Timber. 22 Mutate. 23 Quell. 24 Felon.

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WORDSEARCH

QUICK QUIZ

1. In the film Oliver! what character did Harry Secombe play?

2. How many miles of the Channel Tunnel are underwater?

3. Which group reached No 1 in the UK album chart with Arrival, Voulez-Vous and The Visitors?

4. In the game Cluedo, what colour represents the Reverend?

5. Becky Sharp is a character in which novel?

6. Complete the saying: Many are called…

1. Create or design a new device

2. Child’s glove

3. Cockney rhyming slang word for hair

4. Evening meal

5. Painful swelling of the big toe

6. Pay back money

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because God regards us all as his children.

But we may never have personally experienced the love of a human dad. If so, this concept is perhaps hard for us to imagine. We may have been let down or betrayed by a man who could not give us what we needed from a father.

That will never happen with God. We can go to him in prayer as our loving heavenly Father and know he will always be there for us, ready to help and encourage in whatever situation we face.

If we want to know what God is like, we need look no further than his Son, Jesus, who taught his disciples the Lord’s Prayer and who said: ‘Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father’ (John 14:9 New International Version).

The way to get to know God as a loving father is through Jesus. He said: ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’ (John 14:6).

If we follow Jesus, he will show us the way to know God as a Father who wants the best for us and is ready to listen and answer when we call out to him.

THE sunlight glistened on the sea as the waves lapped against the beach, which was populated by happy holidaying families. But the hum of relaxed conversations and sandcastle-making was pierced by a young child’s voice crying out one word: ‘Daddy!’

Scores of men instinctively looked up in response to the cry, ready to act if the voice belonged to one of their children.

Many dads have an automatic drop-everything reaction to the cry of ‘Daddy’. When the cry comes, they are ready to act for the good of their child in any situation.

When we begin the Lord’s Prayer by saying ‘Our Father’, we can know that God’s attention is immediately gained in the same way as a loving earthly father’s. That’s

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ANDREW STONE looks at the Lord’s Prayer

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Our Father, which art in Heaven,Hallowed be thy name,Thy Kingdom come,Thy will be done, in earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread;And forgive us our trespasses,As we forgive them that trespass against us;

And lead us not into temptation,But deliver us from evil.For thine is the Kingdom, the power, and the

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I WAS chatting with an elderly woman who said: ‘When I was young, I had my path all mapped out, like a golden pathway to happiness.’

‘What happened?’ I asked. She shrugged and said:

‘It all went pear-shaped. My hopes and dreams were broken.’

I longed to know the details but realised it would go beyond courtesy to inquire. However, I compromised by asking if she’d got over it all.

She smiled and replied: ‘I more than got over it. Within a year or so I realised that if I had got what I had prayed for, my life would have been ruined.’

Into my mind came the thought: ‘What a mercy that God can see round corners!’

I wonder how many of us would share that woman’s relief. Thanks to hindsight, some people realise that if God had answered their past prayers just as they wanted him to, they might have ended up on a path to unhappiness.

As I look back over more than 100 years of my life, I can’t help but wonder how many of the ‘golden pathways’ which seduced my gaze at one time would have ended in cul-de-sacs. Looking back, I’m glad I missed them and ended up

where I have instead.

It can be hard to accept that things don’t work out the way we want. It can be tough to hear God say no. We can feel that

he doesn’t love us any more, because we can’t do as we hoped.

But, thank goodness, he has a best plan for us. We can trust him completely to lead us through life. We may not know where we are heading, but as the psalm says: ‘He guides me along the right paths’ (Psalm 23:3 New International Version).

When we follow God, we needn’t worry about where he is going to lead us. He loves us and promises to stay with us, wherever we end up.

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Food for thought

by HELEN BRETT

It can be hard to accept that things don’t work out the way we want

Method:Using a whisk, beat the egg yolks for

1 minute, then mix in the salt, pepper, mustard and paprika. Continue to whisk vigorously while adding in the vegetable oil a little at a time. The mixture should eventually have an emulsion-type consistency.

Keep whisking, adding the vinegar and lemon juice. Break up the hard-boiled eggs into bits and fold into the mayonnaise mixture. Serve with salad.

Serves 4

I’M Michael Darracott; I have been an executive chef in several large establishments in charge of cooking for 200-plus people. I have also written a number of books. It gives me great pleasure to offer my recipes in The War Cry.

I invite readers to send in recipe ideas, to be considered for publication here. I would also like to offer help with any cooking-related problems you have. So send in your question and, if it is selected, an answer will be published on this page.

Email your recipes and questions to chefmike56@chefmikedarracott.com

1½ egg yolks

Salt and pepper, to taste

¼ tsp mustard

Pinch of paprika

290ml vegetable oil

½ tbsp white vinegar

2tsp lemon juice

4 large hard-boiled eggs, shelled

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Paprika and mustard mayonnaise salad

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Ingredients:200g raspberries200g strawberries180g fromage frais4tbsp caster sugar1 large egg whiteA couple of strawberries and

raspberries, to garnish

Strawberry and raspberry fool

Method:Place the raspberries and strawberries in a

blender and liquidise. Add the fromage frais and blend again.

Whisk the sugar and egg white together until stiff peaks are formed, then fold into the fruit mixture. Pour into serving dishes and place in the fridge to chill for a couple of hours.

Garnish with the remaining berries and serve.

Serves 4

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quickly become a Proms regular with brilliant res-torations of classic film scores. He took on the mammoth task of recon-structing the lost orches-trations of all the major MGM musicals, and his 2009 Prom showcas-ing them was a huge hit. The Independent called it ‘Technicolor for the ears’.

For My Fair Lady Wilson has gone back to André Previn’s 1964 film orchestration rather than the theatre pit version which, he says, ‘would be hard to make work in the Royal Albert Hall’. On August Bank Holiday Monday, he returns to the Proms with music from legendary

Broadway shows.It’s clear that listeners

revel in rediscovering the delights of music restored to its former state.

There’s a sense in which we all might like a return to a state when things were bright and new – and unspoilt. Even in our own lives we are aware that time, the accre-tion of habits and our own bad decisions have marred what could have been beautiful.

Thankfully, God

offers us restora-tion – a renewal of our relationship

with him that can lead to a mending of

relationships with other people. Jesus talked about it as being ‘born again’ (John 3:3 Good News

Bible), and his follower Paul

described it several times as ‘new creation’, writing: ‘Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being’ (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Restoration and a new start – now that’s some-thing to make music about!

LONDON’S Olympics could claim to be a focus for the world over the coming weeks. So it’s entirely appropriate that London should be a recurring theme in this year’s Proms.

On the First Night, four British conduc-tors passed the baton in a series of British pieces, some of them for or about London. Tonight (Saturday 14 July) Lerner and Loewe’s London-based musical My Fair Lady, featuring John Wilson and his orchestra, is in the spotlight.

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