The Christian life reads rather like a weather report, don’t you think? We continually move from one storm to the next with a few showers and the occasional, sometimes prolonged, sunny-spells in between. Now I’m a fairly positive sort of person, at least most of the time. Someone once commented on this and asked: Ian you always seem so cheerful, is life such a mountain top experience for you? I replied that it was. Life is always a mountain top experience for me. It’s just that some days I am on top on the mountain and other days the mountain is on top of me!

R. Ian Seymour