**Watching the final Relay races at Tokyo reminds me of the start of the Relay Programme in the UK.

The idea of this internship was born in a chat with Nigel Lee walking round a golf course in Leamington Spa.

I had known him for a number of years through OM and he had recently started working with UCCF. I was planning to finish my time with the organisation at the end of the year and he asked

“If I was trying to persuade you to stay to help lead some change and you could do anything you wanted to do, what would it be?”**

This is number thirty six of a series that began life as a commitment to Counting my Blessings every day after ankle surgery on July 2nd 2021.

Initially I made a brief post on social media and wrote a personal daily reflection on a Psalm following the same numerical progression.

Later on in the 100 days I began to also reflect on other scriptures and combine those into my public post

These thoughts from Psalms earlier in the journey have not been made public  until now as I was writing primarily for my own benefit. I have been encouraged to share these now.