Letting you into a little secret...

When I feel a bit too much like I have two feet firmly planted on the earth and God is way way way up there, I have a way to make myself feel that little bit closer.

I get out my kite and I go off somewhere...well, windy. And then I get out a chunky marker pen and write whatever on it. A prayer maybe, a verse that's important to me right then, a truth, a hope, a dream. And then I fly it up so God can read it!

Flying a kite's so relaxing (providing it's not one of those annoying days where you get it 20ft up only for it to nosedive into someone's romantic picnic/football pitch/pond).

It's the closest thing I get to flying myself, if I lie on the ground and watch my kite riding the thermals. It takes me out of myself. And that's pretty much when my prayers make the most sense and it stops being me me me me and starts being God God God.

Maybe Mary Poppins was onto something with that 'let's go fly a kite' malarkey!