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In the light of the piece I wrote yesterday, the rekindling of my love affair with public transport and with more than a passing reference to Heather Morris's Presidential theme of "A People Invited to Follow..." here is a reblog of a short poem I wrote for the Connexions event at Dublin Conference nearly a decade ago. Some people don’t like travelling on public transport Beside other people; smelly people; Rude people; poor people; Noisy people; nosy people; Young people; old people; Some people don’t like people… They prefer cars… Jesus likes people… People like you and me; People not like you and me; People not liked by you and me; People who don’t like you and me; People who don’t know you and me; But Jesus knows them And he knows you and me And despite all that he knows he invites us all to join him on his journey. I think Jesus would have liked public transport. (© David Campton 2004) Selah

Found myself in the embarrassing position on Saturday of noticing that our esteemed President, Heather Morris, had put this dialogue of mine on her facebook page... It shouldn't have been a surprise given that I had sent it to her a couple of weeks ago for her to use in whatever way she saw fit under the banner of her theme for the year "A People Invited to Follow..." But when I later shared the post I linked it to another dialogue which simply takes some of the invitations of Jesus from different gospels and stitches them together. I'm not very original in my writing... And actually I had forgotten that it is for that very reason that I HADN'T published what follows on my blog, or indeed on Seed Resources where I send most of my stuff... It is actually based on a much longer piece by John L. Bell & Graham Maule of the Iona Community/Wild Goose Worship Group, the very first of their "Eh Jesus... Yes, Peter?" dialogues. My problem was that I di...