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...

Hormones

Today I feel like an adolescent. I am in that delicate time of month we ladies endure and for some reason it has seriously affected the objective part of my brain that acts as the filter between irrational emotion and my mouth...

Walk on

Last night I got back from my first two day training block for Transit, the 24-7 leadership course that I'll be doing for the next nine months.  It was a pretty intense couple of days but all in all I'm pretty excited about the coming year...

Monkton from Runcton!

Tis the week for baby blogs!  Yesterday my other beautiful friend, inspired by Charlottie to hottie, took the plunge into blogdom!  If Charlotte is a frenetic burst of extraverted sparkle, then Helen is the quiet whisper of a spring breeze in your ear.  To follow the escapades and thoughts of my lovely friend Helen Monkton click here...

Friendship

I've been thinking a lot about friendship in the last month. It seems it's been a theme running through every element of my life. How do you measure friendship? How much do you give? How can we be realistic in our expectations?

Motivation that's what you need!

This morning I woke up with an instant cold. As I sailed into consciousness I was aware that only one nostril was functioning and was exploring this new handicap when I was violently thrown into the waking world by a series of shuddering sneezes. Joy...

Closet Evangelist...

Charlotte New has started blogging!  Look out world that crazy, sexy, cool bundle of energy has been let loose in cyberspace to express her opinions and share her life.  Just when you thought it was safe to dial up...

Learning to rest...

I would definitely say that my thought theme for the last week has been time. I arrived back from the RT & ILG utterly exhausted and have spent the last week in a near hermit state of existance. Well, as near to Hermit as I get...