THERE'S A SOLUTION!

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism." - Carl Jung

Solution

Like blind Bartimaeus, many of us wake up to life and find that life has happened to us. We come to notice that our circumstances are the way they are, not because we chose for them to be so, but because it just happened and we had no choice, but God is on your path today.

Nicky Gumbel narrates this story in Bible in one year 2016. Pippa and I (Nicky Gumbel) met Ah Yin when we visited Jackie Pullinger's work in Hong Kong. He had become a drug addict as a teenager. His father was an addict. He was brought up in the notorious Walled City. He joined a gang at the age of eleven. They ate, stole and fought together. They took heroin together. At the age of fourteen,

YOU'RE ROYALTY

"We were descended from royalty." - Natalie Wood

Wood's statement couldn't have been any truer than it already is, for those who realize in actual fact that they have been called indeed into royalty, to dine with the King, of all other kings.

Nicky Gumbel narrates this experience. One day, I received a message that the Queen of England had invited me to lunch. At first I thought it was a practical joke. But it wasn't. I turned up at Buckingham Palace on my bicycle, which an amused policeman looked after for me. I sat next to the Queen as we ate some amazing food. Then she turned and
began to talk to me as the 'Parfait de Rhubarbe et Chocolat Blanc' arrived. It looked delicious. But I did not want to talk with my mouth full - nor did I want to seem rude by cutting into it while the Queen was speaking to me. Eventually she asked me whether I did not like the food. 'No, no, no', I said, 'I love it' (as I quickly began to eat). I did not say it to her, but the real reason I had not eaten