Journal: Well that was a bit of a day off!

Today was a mixed day as I needed to get some copy off to to meet a deadline and then found that the local newspaper needs everything asap for the church service page. This year we have forty-one churches featuring (plus the Good Friday Witness) so it's looking really positive again.

managed to creep out for a film (read about it elsewhere on the blog) and also managed to get over to Lichfield for some Easter requisites too. Whilst there managed time with the wife and a bit of nosebag so been a really positive day thus far.

That said it's 23:40 and I'm just about to pull the plug and get off to bed - so it has been a really good day and although I haven't managed a full day off with Easter and missioner stuff creeping in, I feel really chilled.

Lord, for the encounters today I give You thanks and praise.

For the people I have blessed, I thank You, and for those I haven't, "Hey Ho, let's keep banging those rocks together, eh?"

Denial: At last a film that made me cheer!

Today's three hour's absence from the everyday stuff saw me taking in the film 'Denial' - the true-life account of the libel case: David Irving v Penguin Books Ltd // Deborah Lipstadt.

Written by David Hare (so it was obviously going to be good before the screen even flickered into life) it tells of what was probably one of the biggest libel trials to escape my attention (guess we can blame the fact that I distracted by the wonderful world of international insurance at the time.

The film is a wonderful rollercoaster of emotions and the footage from Auschwitz, the courtroom scenes and the rationale behind the defence all conspire to be very inspiring indeed.

This is a film I will be watching with some of my closest friends when it makes it to DVD.