This week’s promotional discount is on my 2005 book Heaven Touching Earth, one of a four-part series I wrote that features also Touching Down, Touched By His Hand and Touching the Seasons. Subtitled ‘Prayers for daily life’, the aim of each of the books was to locate faith firmly in daily life – to bring heaven, if you like, down to earth.
Normally priced at £7.99, this week, until 6 September, you can purchase Heaven Touching Earth at a 10 per cent discount, using the code HEAVEN10 when ordering the book from the Kevin Mayhew website. Just type the code into the relevant box at the checkout between the dates given
Meanwhile,
Meanwhile, here’s the second of seven extracts I’ll be posting this week from the book, to run alongside this promotion:
The bicycle
‘Have faith,’ they said.
‘Look up,
keep pedalling,
you’ll be fine.’
But I didn’t believe them,
for it didn’t make sense,
the bike falling even as they spoke.
I wobbled . . .
toppled . . .
and fell.
‘Try again,’ they said.
‘You’ll crack it eventually,
you’ll see.’
So I got back on,
that time . . .
and the next . . .
and the next . . .
until eventually I not only stayed on,
but did so without thinking,
cycling suddenly seeming as natural as breathing.
Lord, even when it’s hard,
everything seeming to count against it,
teach me to keep faith,
knowing that, however much I falter,
and however hard I fall,
you will lift me up and set me back on my way.
Amen.