So we had to get home, tell the kids Daddy had a brain tumour.

And I remember my son, who was then 10, looked at me with his little chin wobbling.

He hurled back the tears and he just said, Dad, are you going to die?

Just remember saying, my boy, I'm going to fight.

Welcome everybody. This is Simon Gilber with Inspired.

It's great to be back for another week.

And this week we are inspired with James Shone. Hi James.

Oh, good morning, Simon. Good morning.

So good to have you, buddy. So we first met about 25 years ago, I think it was, on a

scripture union holiday camp with pre-teens, I think, 11, 13-year-olds,

was it? Early 20s talking, I think we shared a room, didn't we? And we discussed our dreams of

finding a woman and that sort of stuff. So this is 25 years on. You know what's really funny? I had just

reconnected with Olivia, who is now my wife, and has been my wife for 23 years. And I was a very

lovesick person. And I think you had slightly fallen in love with someone as well. So we were

probably slightly hopeless leaders. we were kind of utterly

lovesick yes i actually had a crush on one of the girls who was a fellow leader and uh she she she she

was having none of it so i crashed and burned but i hit the jackpot another eight years later with my

lizzie so thank you lord you both you answered all of our prayers in your timing

so that we got the right lady to journey with. Fantastic. So that's when we first net. Now, you know,

we're going to come to your whole story, but why don't we just go back a bit and yeah, describe

yourself as a teenager. As a teenager, I think, I mean, I think two things.

I think the first thing that was a bit of a challenge for me was that my prep school closed

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