Editor's note

Before we start this process, I hope you might forgive a brief digression into the sort of things I might write.

When we first had a blog, I wrote a lengthy post each day, highlighting the thoughts that struck me. These are still on here in the archive, and you are very welcome to look at them and comment. Lat year, I posted more reflective thoughts, and by no means every day. This is the pattern I imagine I will follow this year. If any of you want to have items put up as posts, let me know and that can be done.

Many thanks to Paul Moynan for putting up a link to the blog from the St Paul's Tervuren website, and a pdf version of the reading plan.

If you follow this through, and if you look at last year's run through, you will see that I draw a lot on sources outside scripture as well, such as the music of Andrew Peterson. The direct relevance of a particular song may not be clear, although it probably was to me. Feel free to ignore or make use of as you will.

In general, the feel will be hopefully what you might expect from me if we were chatting over a coffee or while watching the Ashes or the ice hockey. All comments are welcome.