Surprises

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It’s been a good first day of the holiday where I had some surprises.

Surprise number 1. After having an eye test I was told I do not need glasses. A surprise because a year ago with another optician I was told I should buy some as my left eye was weaker but I decided not too as I did not think the 5% weakness warranted spending money. Today the optician said I would need glasses within 5 years but that as one eye was only slightly weaker there was no need at the moment.

Surprise number 2. Walking down Gillingham High Street I bumped into friend Pastor Mark! We had a great little chat in the middle of a foggy High Street. It’s always good to meet people unexpectedly.

Surprise number 3. My children are quite nice really! After spending a day with them I have started to remember this important fact.

Surprise number 4. There is life away from my keyboard and the virtual world! Today I have finished tiling, fixed drawers, delivered presents, walked down the road with my children, played PS2 football (very badly).

Surprise number 5. The Blogger changes do not seem as good as I expected. I can change how my blog looks but lose all my links, books and CDs. Trying to put them back using HTML seems to be harder than in the original, or classic, blogger. I am bored with how this blog looks so I might have to think a little more seriously about moving to typepad and …. paying! But I’m tight so I will have to think very hard!

Surprise number 6 … I’m actually contemplating paying to host my blog!

a covenant … or throwing toys out the pram?

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This has been in the news quite a bit over the last few days and summed up by Dave over at cartoon blog.
It’s the season of peace and good will – unless you want to take an opportunity to be divisive of course which is what this seems to be.
Tom Wright responds well here and it’s very well worth a read.

YFC Christmas Lunch

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Today was my last day of work for 2006!!
I haven’t taken enough holiday (I enjoy this job too much!) and need to take it now, which still mens i carry someover to 2007!
Today I had a great journey to head office with Sha and the journey always seems shorter when you are not driving.
There are soem photos of the lunch here if interested …. don’t know why you would be!

God Giggled

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This poem by James over at Sunday Papers sums up the wonder of the incarnation.

Amnesty

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This weekend I finally got around to joining Amnesty which I have been meaning to do for years!

One particular campaign they encourage their members to do is to send a card of greeting and encouragement to an individual who is in danger or unjustly imprisoned.

Christmas Card

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For the last year or so I have been making my own cards for certain things as the cards I find in the shops seem either incredibly overpriced or tacky.

At Christmas and Easter in particular, cards seem to be either nothing to do with Christmas or they use 1970 meek and mild baby Jesus pictures, with a nice comfortable stable which smeeled sweet, which I dislike intensely!

Yesterday I spent part of the day being creative by producing this Christmas card to send to my financial supporters. I wanted to show this was no meek and mild baby, but that this was a baby that had come with a mission, the painful task of saving the world.

I was quite pleased with this result. I was even more pleased when the house’s resident artist, aka Tom, said they were cool!

Advent

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Great advent reflection here.

New Director for Chislehurst YFC

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I spent the afternoon in Chilsehurst YFC today interviewing for the next director there. We’ve offered the job to an excellent person so I hope they accept it!

Why did it take so long to play Monty?

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you never step in the same river twice

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One good thing about being in the car for a large amount of time (nearly 9 hours over the last two days) means that I have loads of time to think and pray. It also gives me loads of time to rehearse both conversations and talks that I am going to give.

This quote has been swirling around my head for a good few weeks now. I can’t exactly remember where I first saw it, but I think it was at creative thinking blog.

I think it is an apt quote for the church of today. I have lost count of the number of times over the past six months where I have heard something that sounds like:

‘we have tried that before , but it did not work!’
Such a mundane outlook!

We never step in the same river twice.
We are never in the same time space twice.
We never exerience two identical times when all the possible variables are identical.
We think it.
It may feel like it.
But time, circumstances,opportunities are always progressing, always changing.

‘we’ve never been here before, we’ve never tried it before, and we don’t know what will happen when we do it!’

Now that’s quite exciting!
That’s quite intriguing in a scarey sort of way.
I used to get scared over what may happen because I was unsure.
I think recently I have stopped taking risks!
I want to experience that kind of fear again!