VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Brian Draper, Associate lecturer at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity  |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 3 out of 5 (Fairly platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130615.html][img=images/2013/06/pic130615.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Brian here, in Southampton, an associate lecturer at the [url=http://www.licc.org.uk/about-licc]London Institute for Contemporary Christianity[/url] where we envision and equip Christians and their churches for whole-life missionary discipleship in the world, seek to serve them with biblical frameworks, practical resources, training and models so that they flourish as followers of Jesus and grow as whole-life disciplemaking communities. Hi.

I had to go to my son's school sports day yesterday. It went on for hours. The thing was, I had a deadline to write this really important Thought For The Day about Father's Day. There's nothing more irritating when you have a deadline to write a really important Thought For The Day about Father's Day and you keep having to discharge your duties as a father.

Which brings me neatly onto the Invisible Magic Friend. The temporarily visible third of him has an invisible third that he calls "father", or "daddy". There's another invisible third of him that's particularly invisible and doesn't seem to get out much, except when he becomes briefly visible as a dove or a flicker of flame, and that you can't be forgiven for blaspheming against because he's the sensitive type.

Anyway, this just goes to show that people require fathers. Which brings me neatly to the Prodigal Son. The Prodigal Son had a father. He didn't get irritated by school sports days when he had an important deadline for a TFTD about Father's Day.

Happy nearly Father's Day everyone!

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