Amazed & Confused

The Christian Elite

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Comatosed

Last night was the first night in a long time that I slept completely through. Nothing short of my Napoleon Dynamite alarm was going to wake me. It was absolutely blissful, I forgot how good uninterrupted sleep felt. I spent all of yesterday evening in my new room doing a Bible study on the word and my first draft of my talk on God's story for this Sunday's meeting. I feel a lot more rooted for the time of solitude and something meaty to sink my teeth into...

Breathing in the vice

This morning I woke at 6.30am, my brain whirring at 50 mph. At least I knew where I was this morning, when I woke with a start yesterday I was baffled at the surrounding room that contained all my stuff but wasn’t my familiar attic retreat…

Greenbelt

Steve’s being a rockstar for Cathy Burton this weekend so I’ve tagged along to greenbelt to soak in the vibe and check out the musical talent. I haven’t been here since it was hosted behind my house on the fields stretching to Castle Ashby. It’s grown an incredible amount since then…

Hope Week

I feel like I know my Mum, Dad, Sister and Brother pretty well, but nothing has made me prouder of them than watching them work on the Hemmingwell estate with 1000 gorgeous, hyper kids and teenagers. My personal favourite moments were teaching girls like Thandeka (left) to shake their booty to Beyonce, watching the local police and the Mayor of Wellingborough stand bemused while most of the local troublemakers ran around with broad grins, sibling smack-down on the bungee inflatables and 50 kids with their hands in the air desperate to tell everything they know about Jesus to win a bag of Haribo. I think bribery is a grossly under-used evangelism technique, their knowledge was astounding… xc

Hide the Marrow

It’s been so long since I’ve blogged I feel almost paralysed by my topic options. Life is very full at the minute, probably too full, but everything is ticking along. Games like ‘Hunt the Marrow’ have kept us amused on wet and windy weekends and there have been moments of joy in the hustle and bustle of Round Table/Wedding preparations…

The stupidest thing I've done in years

Fabulously cheesy countdown to our Wedding!
Look how gross this is! Jonah made me do it... xc

Talented Friends

I am loving the graffitti art Emily Moore is coming up with a the minute. If you don't know the luminesent Em then I cannot praise her highly enough. She is full of joy, life and God and has been a massive encouragement and key friend of the last few years. Check out her gallery of latest work here...

Mini Milestones

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The last week has been full of mini milestones in the lives of my friends and community.  From the Wedding of Tristan and Hannah to the immanent birth of Baby Laegal, life is skipping along at a beautiful pace.  Both events sum up my thoughts of the three days of meetings I've just had, exploring the restructuring of the international 24-7 movement without choking the life, or wildness from what's happening around the world...

The World at Large

Feeling pretty depressed about the state of the world today. My thanks to the men and women who foiled this morning's plot, but with everything that's happening in the Israel-Gaza-Lebanon situation, the 6000 deaths in the last two months in Iraq and the growth of agression towards the Western World, when are we going to wake up and address the causes behind the grievances...

Countdown

Today, it is precisely three months or thirteen weeks or ninety two days or precisely twothousandtwohundred and eight hours til I walk down the aisle... I just picked the invitations up from the printers, I'm gathering the last of the addresses and Charlotte and Smiles are giggling over secret Hen Night plans at the next desk. Now I'm excited officially excited. xc

Dramatic Boredom

How do you motivate yourself when you feel like the office is sucking out your very soul... If I have to write another email I may have to cry... Hmmm, actually, being dramatic makes me feel better. I might huff and puff at the empty desks and four blue/cream walls :) xc

Sunny, chilly days

Bizarrely, despite the drop in temperature, today feels the way summer used to. I'm wearing an old headscarf to mask the results of 20 extra (blessed) minutes sleep and a hoodie that feels like constant hug. I was walking down Kingsham Avenue, with Jonny Cash in my ears and suddenly I felt as light and optomistic as my former 18 year old self; fresh from moving away from home, and walking with all the potential in the universe bursting from my chest...