Anyone for tea?

Some of you may think that Mrs Teapot has finally put Timelord out to grass for a model whose refinement is more in line with her own. After all I have never managed quite this poise when delivering the juice of the leaf.

In fact this is my senior partner Quentin Poole as he appears in our graduate recruitment brochure "Breaking the Law". Legal eagles go to www.wragge.com for a look.

We say in it that "everyone’s an equal at Wragge & Co, so there are no rules about who makes the tea or coffee."

I thought about this picture after listening on Sunday last to Peter Worth talk about Jesus washing the feet of his disciples. Peter encouraged us to seek out ways to serve others and adopt a culture counter to the ways of the world.

This picture is a foot washing picture and it is part of the message we as a firm want to give out. We will be judged by it. The cynics will smile at it. I do not know how often Quentin makes the tea but I do know it captures something of our values. Sometimes we will not live up to them. It is one reason why I am a partner .....and not just because I bake apple cake and muffins!

It is borne out by the care and support I have been given and the letters and cards I have received from lots of people in the firm since FreelanceNerd died.

Of course it is an age old challenge for the church that organisations and individuals outside the church sometimes adopt values which Jesus would applaud. Obvious really, when you think about it.

I then had a curious thought: Jesus washed the feet of his disciples to teach the disciples a lesson. We start at home so to speak.

And I know from our loss of FreelanceNerd and the response of our friends in the church how deeply that lesson has been learnt among us.