When I was young and still at school I wanted to be anyone but me! Despite being good at football and cricket and playing for my school first team I wanted to be Bobby Charlton in the winter and Colin Cowdrey in the summer.

As I got older, left school and started work this feeling of wanting to be someone else continued to be a big part of my psyche. It seemed to me that just about everyone else had more,and were better than me.

In retrospect I suppose that's how I got involved in bad things, habits and people. The real you is someone to be avoided, so let's enter a world of make believe.

The red letter day for me was my introduction to Jesus! He didn't want to know about my past, indeed when I tried to explain my many indiscretions He told me He knew nothing of them and it was time for me to start living as Norman Dix. He came to make me understand that rather than being a failure I was 'cool.' He said read 2 Corinthians 5:17. I did, wow! 'A new creation, old things passed away and now all things new.'

Thirty seven years have now passed and thank God I am still Norman Dix and happy to be so.