Monday is usually an admin day for me, but today I was looking forward to catching up with Ian – but that plan failed as all 3 of my children have had some stomach bug over the weekend which has meant no school today for any of them and so needing to stay home as Sarah had a presentation she needed to do throughout the day.

This has meant as well as working I have been able to sue the time for some long needed reflection. I always plan to have quiet in the day and week but, to be honest, I love my job so much that when I get my teeth into something hours seem to fly past and the empty quiet house is packed full and noisy again.

Today the children have been quiet and so I have been able to re-connect with God in quiet which I have failed to do fopr some time. This afternoon I particularly found the words of Gregory of Nazianzus that are said over the Easter Season in Common Worships Prayer during the day (what a very good Anglican I am becoming!):

Yesterday I was crucified with Christ;
today I am glorified with him.
Yesterday I was dead with Christ;
today I am sharing in his resurrection.
Yesterrday I was buried with him;
today I am waking with him from the sleep of death.

As I said the last line of that liturgy I felt the words to be describing my feelings. I reflected on how I have become embroiled in stuff, particularly in study stuff, or post ordination stuff, as its quite prominent at the moment. Today i felt God remind me what it is all about.

It’s all about a risen kingdom life with Jesus: all equal no matter what they achieve, all accepted no matter what their brand of Christian theology, all valued no matter where they stand in society, all created by the one true God.

It’s all about life with Jesus!