Home to Lincoln after 2 and a bit years, for just 4 days. Squeezing everyone in, snatching half hours with people wherever there was a chance. Everyone cuddling Chloë as they got the chance. Not long enough, never long enough. Half an hour here, an hour there, dinner one night, breakfast another day. So much the same and yet so different. The feel ( Read more... )

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( what happened this week )

Pete turned 30 yesterday ( Read more... )

i miss my friends.

well, this weekend I have managed to:
sleep in on Saturday
climb Mt Taylor in the sunshine
spend 3 hours at a retreat workshop
sit by the lake in a new spot, watching the sky dusk colours deepen, and reflect, after sunset
make cookies
get the dishwasher loaded and emptied, clean, vacuum, tidy and get two loads of laundry done and put away
cycle to church
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bible study was fantastic tonight.
i am loving life.
focus on the people, and loving the people, and the rest will fall into place.
walking up hills at sunset, driving into the misty sunrises, cycling to church, energy energy energy, dancing makes me happy. going because I want to, not to keep fit. making sure there's always time for the people in ( Read more... )

just when I got comfortable with the weight I've been putting on and the shape I currently am and stopped feeling guilty about all the chocolate I eat, my jeans started getting too tight.  So now I *still* want to lose weight, but only because I don't want to shell out lotsa money for a new wardrobe...

I went to church tonight. Taize service.  We started in laughter, as the Sat@6 congregation often does.  We're a friendly, informal, relaxed church, right through all our congregations, and it shows.  We were learning new songs, since I'd decided to throw in a couple of scary foreign new ones - we thought it best to learn them first.  And then we ( Read more... )

I think it often.  How much of the story you can't see, from the other side of the world. The beauty in the cold mornings, mist rising over the lakes and the sky tinged pink, warming the hills in the sun as it rises.  Those sunrise moments, sunset moments, that I've written about before.

I wish you were here.  I wish you could see this.  You can't ( Read more... )

Retreats for younger people are hard to find in Australia - at least in my corner of Australia.  A space where we can be, explore the Bible, and escape the world.  Taize was precious, so precious, because it provided exactly that.  Along with lasting friendships, fleeting but deep comraderie and friendly passing acquaintances.  I miss somewhere ( Read more... )