Amazed & Confused

Swiss Cheese!

Yesterday I was standing on the summit of an Alpine mountain, today I’m sitting in a Swiss airport in France (!?!) (connected to the internet as if by magic) and ploughing my way through Pete G’s emails. This is a funny world I live in…

My Kingdom for a sign…

I have strange criteria by which I judge a country. The more I travel the clearer I’ve become on the things that make me fall in love with a nation. I’ve been in Switzerland for 24 hours (well apart from the 3 hours I mistakenly spent in France) and I can certainly say it’s scoring nicely. ‘What are these criteria?’ I here you cry; well let me bore you with them…

Five hours and counting...

It's 10.43pm and I'm two thirds of the way through editing 24-7's Round Table report. Bleary eyed is an understatement, as I plow on I keep glancing at the clock and grimacing at the knowledge that I'm leaving for Switzerland in less than five hours...

Fear and trembling...

The last six months I've gotten increasingly slack on my Bible study, journaling and prayer. I've gone from nearly every day to once or twice a week. As I read through my journal last night I realised that I may be writing less often but what I'm thinking about has shifted slightly. Strange statement; I think I'm thinking more...

Picture Perfect

"This weekend has been like heaven..." you're absolutely right Ralf! I want to share my weekend with you all but nothing I could write would ever do justice to the music, food, friends, blustery walks, card games, joking, late night 24 marathons, worship, heart-to-hearts, farewells and numerous mugs of tea. So I shall let my pictures do the talking; welcome to my weekend...

Transiteers to the rescue!

Who am I? What's God like? How do you draw a graphic equaliser? Just a few of the deep questions I was pondering at last week's Transit training block. Lots of discussion on identity and the character of God, a little more time with people and a little less intensity made for a less draining two days in Reading...

Tom meet God...

Yesterday was fantastic.  Great friends, new lives and an amazing hour in the Prayer Room.  For the first time in weeks I woke refreshed from sleep and excited about my day.  I decided to play office worker and went for a smart beige slacks, shirt and cashmere jumper combo and strolled through Chichester with a sense of a new chapter starting...

Good friends

Yesterday I felt extremely loved. I've had a difficult weekend and returned to Chi yesterday afternoon feeling pretty fragile and drained. All considered everything went as well as it could but the last few days had really taken it out of me...

Love Esther

It's been a week now so it's about time that I introduced you to my beautiful new Spanish house mate Esther Vazquez. Esther exploded into our lives about a month ago, and though she's only been in 15 Caledonian rd a week, she's already winning our affections...

Serenity

Last night I went to see the much anticipated film and Joss Wheydon's labour of love, Serenity. If I'm honest my expectations were middling because disspite the fabulous reviews the first few episodes of it's source series Firefly didn't really grab me. My scepticism lasted all of 30 seconds as the opening sequence burst onto the screen at a frenetic pace...