What a painful weekend for British sport!
The Gills painfully lost again away from home which takes them back to the relegation zone.
I am in physical pain today as I put my back out yesterday morning stupidly lifting a box into my car. The box was my ‘worship box’ which I was taking to church and has clearly become too heavy with candles, pebbles etc.! I am annoyed as it was one of those moments when I was rushing and as I bent to pick it up my brain was screaming ‘no – that’s gonna hurt’ but my body was slow on the uptake!

Sitting at the laptop is OK, but if I sit for longer than 20 minutes I then walk like the hunchback of Notre Dame for a couple of minutes until my body achieves a certain sort of vertical equilibrium. Not sure what this will mean for my work output today.

I led a contemplative service last night at St. Marks (which was the reason for carrying the box). A while back John asked me to be responsible for the service and the sermon and so I immediately asked if I could try something different. I based the service around Northumbria Community evening prayer liturgy and added an Examen type reflection. On one screen I had the liturgy and on another I had the Jesus morphing video downloaded via Jonny’s blog.

People seemed to appreciate the space, the quiet, the time allowed to just ‘be’ with God with no pressure to ‘do’ anything. It was great to be able to be part of this space and I hope we can do it again sometime.