Part of next Sunday’s lectionary readings is Mary’s song, the Magnificat. Some people are familiar with sung versions, or versified versions. Why not try just reading it out loud, as it is in one of the English translations of the Bible. Try adding a bit of emotion, perhaps anger, and see how it sounds. How did the Church ever allow this to be said!
I’m getting fed up with walking through deep puddles, so I walked west today, instead of east – and Tameside (Greater Manchester) has these little marks of being different from High Peak (Derbyshire), like different bus stops and little dinosaur footprints painted on the pavement. Inwardly noting these kinds of things is part of doing a long distance (i.e. country-spanning) walk.