Monthly Archives: December 2006

weekend of firsts

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The weekend has been quite exciting, and frustrating, as I have tried 3 things for the first time …

… started to use Blogger Beta which seems OK. I can add tags and the posting is quicker. It seems every time I think of moving to typepad and actually paying(!?!) to host the blog, Blogger somes up with something knew. I have not yet, however, had the courage to update my template and see what new things I can do. If it goes wrong the thought of typing in all the links again is scarey…

… I laid tiles on the bathroom floor (the frustrating part of the weekend!) Gary lent me his vicious looking tile cutter and during Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning I cut tiles and now the bathroom looks very different. I hate DIY and the big hurdle was actually convincing myself I could do it and I think I heard the words ‘I can’t do this!!!’ quite a few times. Quite amazing how our thoughts can hold us back, as it turned out I could do it after all …

… tonight I attended my first MOOT big service. It was great to have a lot of unrushed silence to ‘wait for Christ to come and be born among us’ in the season of advent. I think this is one of the few experiences where I have not felt that the silence has been rushed. After this last hectic week it was just cool to be able to sit and wait…

Last year I remember saying at the start of the year that I wanted to try new things … well this weekend I managed it!

Rob Bell interview

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Not a cheap shot to raise my hits again, but John Buckridge from Christianity Magazine interviews Rob Bell here.

Some very interesting answers to questions – and I particularly like his spiritual disciplines of making the breakfast and packed lunch for his children but not sure whether I will share that with Sarah and the children here! There is also a great moment when he labels the American evangelical selling machine as anti – Christ rather than bringing glory to Christ.

It’s a good interview and worth a listen.

Pen Labyrinth

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This is cool and I could have done with this over the last 2 days.
You can print this and it’s a great way to just pause in the business.
Thanks Mark for the pointer.

Mission chats – but I’m still shallow!

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Back in London today for the Youth Co-ordinating Group of CTIE and to catch up with Pauline in Solid YFC.

The meeting this morning was quite productive – although I am finding myself getting impatient in meetings who seem to like to talk over and over the same issues. Part of me wants to scream and say … ‘we’ve talked about this quite a lot – can we get on with mission now please?!’

I learnt of an exciting idea to give a more positive view of young people in the media – watch this space!

I met Pauline at The Boathouse next to Putney Bridge for a coffee and chat. It’s a great location wth an amazing view. Coffee is quite good too!

Following that I had to tackle the throngs of people in Regent Street and Oxford Circus possibly hunting for a present – but I can’t say more cos they might read about it here!

I noticed one interesting thing about me! A whole day talking about mission and wanting to reach people – but feeling anger rising inside me when people stp in the middle of pavements or top of stairs leaving tube stations! Reminds me how shallow I am!

Moot Placement

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Last night I joined the Moot Community meeting.
It was great to see everyone again and hear of plans for things of the future and interesting too to hear of the struggles of being involved in a community that has no real income and needs to remain on the edge of things and be creative.
I’m looking forward to getting involed in some stuff over the next few months, shame I can’t make the Christmas party though! I’m looking forward to the Advent Service on Sunday evening.
Ian is having the third op on his arm tomorrow so remember to shoot a prayer up!

Advent Calendar

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The Church of England has an interesting looking online Advent Calendar.
‘Advent is like a hungry man waiting for a feast’ says Archbishop John Sentamu.

SEITE bishops

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We had a visit of bishops tonight at SEITE. For our assessments at the end of this term we have prepared letters in debate – this evening the debate was between Arius and Athanasius – don’t they look good!

Meetings

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I met up with Brian today for lunch and it was great to just generally catch up; we had no agenda and just talked and listened. It was a great time and I think we should meet with no agenda, and just because we are friends, far more often than we do. Too much of life is taken up with agendas and meetings – no wonder nothing gets done!

Tesco Diesel?

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This is odd so I’m asking if anyone else has had this experience?
I seem to be noticing that if I fill up at my local supermarket, that the car does a good number of miles less than if I fill up at Esso or some other ‘brand’ garage.

I seem to have noticed this a number of occassions now.

Is this my imagination, my unique experience – or have others had similar experiences?

Great News

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We had an exciting weekend.
When I got back from Newham the children excitedly told me that Uncle Chris and Aunty Juliet are going to have a baby.
Cool news!!!
Congratulations Chris and Juliet!