It’s been a hectic week and a whole week where I have not blogged. This has simply been due to pressure of time and lack of an Internet signal. I am currently in a busy spell and have realised again why I originally started to blog – which was to help my reflection and force me to consider what is happening and reflect on the implications of my observations.

The last week, and in particular, the last few days I have felt oddly naked (I don’t think that has anything to do with the Gender and Sexuality topic of the SEITE weekend!) This nakedness has left me thinking I am missing something. In particular missing the space to reflect, the time to analyse why I did what I did, the quiet to process in my head and heart the motivations hiding behind my actions and above all to consider where God is in all I have been doing and maybe even where I have missed God. I like to ask this as I think it increases my chance of noticing God in ‘the stuff’ in the future.

I think as we ask these questions it gives us the opportunity to again stand naked and unashamed in front of God and receive again the blessing that he intends for us to have. It’s in the nakedness of my thoughts, the rawness of my emotions, the playing with words on SHP that I think I grow a little more in Christ likeness – frustratingly so little that neither myself, nor those around me, notice it.

So – I am back, I have lots of thoughts, but I have forgotten lots of thoughts too but trust God that I will retain and reflect upon that which he has enabled me to remember.