Buzzing. Just spent the night speaking to teens about Daniel. Great bunch, great dynamics, great drama, great God. Loved it, loved it, loved it! I got the chance to sing a couple of my songs and hear them beg for my myspace details (they’re only young – they don’t know any better, bless em!). They [...]
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Posted in conversation, home, hope, housemates, people on Monday, 4 February, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today I am thankful that I have had people and experiences that will be worth mourning if and when things begin to change. I am thankful that tears didn’t drown my chance to speak. I am thankful for a housemate who is my friend. I am thankful that God is greater than I could ever imagine and [...]
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Posted in conversation, gospel, grace, hope, Jesus, truth, work on Thursday, 31 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(Eh, so the students were only 25 mins late – the rest of the blame was on traffic. I stand corrected.) Conversation, conversation, conversation. Dreaming dreams, discussing realities; theorising, categorising, somethingelse-ising. Great. The indoors when outside is so manky. Seeing awesome potential in an already so competent student leader… Looking forward to hearing how his life [...]
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Posted in beauty, church, conversation, friendship, hope, music, people, prayer, sleep, Sunday, The Unexpected, travel, work on Sunday, 13 January, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A lengthy lie-in, cosy and warm and no pressure to get up. I was taking the service in my home church tonight. Talking about my work with students. Took a different slant and got people within the congregation to talk about their experiences of the CU movement. It was magic! Not only did they say [...]
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Posted in hope on Thursday, 3 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Honesty and integrity. Painful but liberating.
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Posted in church, grace, home, hope, Jesus, music, The Unexpected on Thursday, 29 November, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Driving down the road, seeing a great big man amble across the road just to stroke a little ginger kitty. Very poetic. This is another one of those weird ones where something seemingly not great becomes my great thing… I was at a funeral today. Of course it was heart-breaking, but yet… The singing of [...]
I spent the entire day inside the house, but before going to bed I stepped outside to go and get the bin to put it out and breathed a great lungful of cool, crisp autumn evening air… Breathing sustains life, breathing air like that sustains beauty and hope.
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