Long Journey

Getting Ready for Greenbelt

Its getting closer to GB again, with the last set of months before the big weekend.

I am helping run the Tech Team for New Forms again this year, and as ever the team is coming together nicely!

The usual suspects have offered to push the sliders again, but there are still a couple of open places if you are interested.

GB looks like its going to be another good one, so come along. You don't need to camp, but it is more fun that way!

I am working on the equipment list and the proto schedule this weekend, and will probably set up a web group to help support the various groups this year.

Get your ticket here, or volunteer and get a free ticket!

God Father Part 2

Last Sunday, a poor young lad was inflicted with a life long curse (well the length of my life anyway). Against all previous signs of sense Andy and Phil asked me to be a God Father to their second son JJ!

JJ is the one with the staring eyes, he knows you know!

With Rebecca in the hospital, and the rain and hail coming down, I drove up to Hertford for the service and to make my vows. Then unfortunately turned right around and headed back to East Surrey Hospital.

It was a nice service, and the minister was a hoot.

Rebecca is now on the mend and being a pickle, and I hope and pray that JJ will survive the burden that has been placed on his shoulders!

Trapped?

HT to Thomas Hawk.

Work and life is feeling a bit problematical at the moment. Rebecca was in the Hospital over the weekend, and both Fiona and I are still recovering from the inevitable stress of it. Thankfully Rebecca is now fine, just tired out.

When the everyday stresses of life start pilling up I feel trapped and my mind turns to other escapism things. Some healthy, some not so.

So this article has helped me put things into some perspective. How would I have coped with being trapped in an elevator for 41 Hours? That's right 41 long, long hours. With no response from the emergency intercom, stuck in a concrete shaft?

If you are also feeling trapped at the moment, watch it. It might give you some perspective.....

[From Trapped: Online Only Video: The New Yorker]

The Sins of the World

[From Bigbulkyanglican: The World around us]

vaux.net

Vaux Lives! Just what is going on, a resurrection this close to Easter?

[From vaux.net ]

Warning this is a Plug

This is an unashamed plug for Proost. Some fantastic, and I mean fantastic downloads on the site. With more added nearly every month.

If you don't know about Proost, go here

This months offering is a new album called Harronell, and it is great (I already used fantastic!).

"You may remember we ran a project Unusual Suspects when we relaunched last August with three talented and as yet unpublished artists. Well the project continues and Laurence is the first Unusual Suspect of 2008 which we are excited about. We have lifted the age limit on it as we have met several people a little above the 25 age we had set."

Great piece of work,and a good achievement from Proost to give this new artist some web air time...

The subscription is well worth it, so go on you know you want to!

How clear is your message

This morning in Church, with most of the leadership off at Spring Harvest, we had a very strong and clear message about what it is to follow Christ. Spoken around Road to Emmaus. When to sermon is up on iTunes, I'll link to it. But good to hear clear and simple stuff, mainly around the commands to just get on and do, and not to wait around for some prayers to get responded to and some-kind of super spiritual signal.

One thing that was raised, is how much our Faith is under attack, and how well we can tell out story. I hope we can do better than this 3 year old!

http://www.supernovatube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=619685675

Telling our story is something a lot of us find hard to do, but as our faith comes under increasing attack we need to dust off our stories and stand firm.

Snow in April

So today it has snowed.

It is the first decent amount of snow that Rebecca has seen, and we just had to build a snowman.

Well a snow lady actually, and she is called Lola. A smaller Charlie is in the drive!