THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER 2016 JOHN 21:1-19When Nicky Cusack was diagnosed with cancer her world was shaken so violently that she could not tell if she was standing on the floor or the ceiling. 2009, her year of confusion, spun her upside-down before it had hardly begun. In January she was savaged by a pack of six stray dogs. She was recovering from her injuries when life doubled-down on her disorientation and she received her dizzying diagnosis. What do you do when you wake up and don’t know where you are? When they take the blind-fold off you and you don’t recognize anything or anyone? Where do you go when your head is spinning so fast you don’t know up from down? When the rules have changed, when the goalposts have moved, when you aren’t even sure you’re still in the same stadium; when the old pillars of certainty have crumbled to dust?

Aged 46, a divorced mother of four, and working for minimum wages at Asda, the name Walmart goes by in the UK, Nicky did the only thing you can do when the room is spinning. She clung onto to something that was not moving - her kids and her job. But a savaging by dogs and a ravaging by cancer were not the only blows to leave

Nicky dazed and confused in 2009. A more perplexing event awaited her. It was during her long period of treatment. Despite her illness she still (Read the full Sermon here: The Elephant on the Beach )