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A satisfyingly productive morning when a talk came together despite me thinking I had NOTHING to say!
SLOBS looked to be a difficult one, but again I was overwhelmed by the real sense that the Small Group Leaders are growing so much. I loved their engagement with Scripture, with each other and with me – what a blessing. I am reminded that its often in the struggle that we grow stronger.
A wee jaunt over to Derry to do an address at a ‘Lent’ service in a church – a chance to see some of the students there again and chat a little. One man’s comment about being glad to hear that ‘students aren’t all bad’ made the CU movement all the more fresh and exciting to me too.
I called a friend I haven’t spoken to in almost a year. It was easy – I just picked up the phone and did it! As the phone rang I was thinking that I feel like a different person since we last spoke. That made me nervous, but I discovered she’s been on a similar journey and that our friendship is still strong, still fresh and still organic! Praise God for friends like that. Praise God for growth in difficult times.
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