Sunny Norfolk!
Back home after a week's holiday.
The holiday was good. Although it rained and stopped us doing a lot of the usual holiday stuff, it was also a well needed break. It's been a hard month - first getting viral bronchitis which really wiped me out for a few weeks and then, a day before we went on holiday, spraining a ligament in my knee which basically put me in a lot of pain, destroyed my sleep and meant I could hardly move it.
So a week away in which to recover was actually very useful and well timed! My leg is much better in that I can actually bend it, but I still struggle with full movement and am still in pain most of the time so prayer would be appreciated.
The holiday was also a good time for Chris and I to process some things together.
Richard England's talk last night was really good, I thought. It was on the parable of the sower and there's a tendancy when someone reads a well known passage to think that you've heard all you can on it, but it was really clear and helpful. So still processing that one.
Early on in the worship I felt God asking me to 'lay down by the streams of living water'. Think it wasn't just for last night though. St Tom's is starting to enter it's usual time of abiding over the summer. Whilst I traditionally find this a very difficult time because my life doesn't stop over summer, and work certainly doesn't, I'm going to try to embrace it this summer by practising resting in God's presence more, laying by his streams of living water.
Anyway, that's about it really. Obviously we heard about the London bombs whilst we were on holiday. What can I say? Not much, other than praising God for the safety of a friend who moved to London last year. The blasts were on her usual line and she also walked past the site of the bus explosion only minutes before it occured.
I don't know why some people survived and others didn't, but I praise God for the fact that my friend is safe.
The holiday was good. Although it rained and stopped us doing a lot of the usual holiday stuff, it was also a well needed break. It's been a hard month - first getting viral bronchitis which really wiped me out for a few weeks and then, a day before we went on holiday, spraining a ligament in my knee which basically put me in a lot of pain, destroyed my sleep and meant I could hardly move it.
So a week away in which to recover was actually very useful and well timed! My leg is much better in that I can actually bend it, but I still struggle with full movement and am still in pain most of the time so prayer would be appreciated.
The holiday was also a good time for Chris and I to process some things together.
Richard England's talk last night was really good, I thought. It was on the parable of the sower and there's a tendancy when someone reads a well known passage to think that you've heard all you can on it, but it was really clear and helpful. So still processing that one.
Early on in the worship I felt God asking me to 'lay down by the streams of living water'. Think it wasn't just for last night though. St Tom's is starting to enter it's usual time of abiding over the summer. Whilst I traditionally find this a very difficult time because my life doesn't stop over summer, and work certainly doesn't, I'm going to try to embrace it this summer by practising resting in God's presence more, laying by his streams of living water.
Anyway, that's about it really. Obviously we heard about the London bombs whilst we were on holiday. What can I say? Not much, other than praising God for the safety of a friend who moved to London last year. The blasts were on her usual line and she also walked past the site of the bus explosion only minutes before it occured.
I don't know why some people survived and others didn't, but I praise God for the fact that my friend is safe.
Hmmm thought that the abiding was now being done in the winter?
Posted by
Tchad |
12/7/05 5:12 pm
'Fraid it doesn't look like it. The evening services are stopping over summer in about two weeks and the morning ones are going very lightweight. Looks like old habits die hard!
Posted by
susieb |
13/7/05 2:36 pm