I’m off on retreat early in the morning (5.15am!) so won’t be blogging for a while. (I didn’t blog early in the morning – I’m making use of the new blogger scheduling tool which is pretty cool!)

I’m looking forward to some time to contemplate as life has been mega busy recently with family, work and study. It’s easy to lose the focus and to feel adrift in such circumstances.

I guess that pretty much sums up how I am feeling at the moment – a little adrift and just floating in a calm summer sea merrily going where the lapping waves take me and not really having a lot to do with the direction I am taking. That’s sometimes a god place to be, and I wish to be there in September – bu for now I need to be a little more disciplined so that targets are met and things are achieved.

These next few days I will pretty much be having a technology fast and making an attempt on re-centring around the stuff that matters.

During the retreat we are going to be taking the theme of trees and looking at how the tree grows, how it is shaped, how it is identified, how it bears fruit … and so on and looking at the parallels between this and our spiritual lives.

Please pray for the YFC staff there – and see you in a few days time!