Time off!

Just over a week ago, I listed what had to be done in the three weeks following.  Since I was – and am! – planning to have time off between Christmas and New Year, I’ve recognised that everything else will have to go quiet for a couple of weeks.  That includes my blog! But as … Continue reading »

Not so lost in 2011!

I started this year feeling pretty lost in 2011.  With only twenty goals on the conservative version of the list(!), I wasn’t really sure which way to turn.  I was believing God for a year of new opportunities as I finished off my MA dissertation and turned my eyes to consider what God might have … Continue reading »

Pastor or friend?

This one is a real conundrum for me right now.  I want to be able to answer ‘pastor and friend’.  I want to be able hold those roles together.  Yet so much depends on the Other. What follows is written much as a letter might be written.  Yet I am cautious about posting it because … Continue reading »

LML

LML. From the land of texting and Facebook statuses, yet another acronym.  This time courtesy of my soon-to-be 13 year old brother. To my delight, one of his friends had to comment on said status, asking what LML stands for.  So I’m not totally uncool for not knowing. But it means LoveMyLife. I felt a … Continue reading »

A need to write

Today I just needed to write something.  It won’t be a long piece because I am half-brain dead, it seems, after nearly ten hours at college!  But it feels like it has been too long since I blogged; I have been building up so much that I want to reflect upon, to react to, to … Continue reading »

Living dangerously

Joy lives dangerously.  If an experience is deeply satisfying, it usually holds an element of uncertainty.  If satisfaction is to enlarge into joy, the uncertainty factor will be high.  Risk, peril, unpredictability are the air that joy breathes.  Remove these factors and joy suffocates.  This is why God has designed for us a life that … Continue reading »