I’m having a catch up on uploading photos so a month late here are some pics from Easter. We had the Easter tree outside church to welcome people in. In church we had a time of celebration and for some reason the kids were popping balloons. After church we headed off to Culver cliff to do [Continue]
I’ve just finished reading Rob Bell’s new(ish) book Love Wins. I found it an interesting and thought provoking read, but I believe for many it will be discarded (or possibly burned) because of issues with cognitive dissonance. OK, if you’re still with me, haven’t set fire to your computer at the very mention of Rob [Continue]
So Martin and I are having a lazy morning, no noise, no rush, no need to hurry to get up. We have a leisurely breakfast planned and then a walk and lunch in a pub somewhere and a long chat about our future plans. Then there is the phone call! The one from the kids [Continue]
We stayed out too late playing cards on Saturday night, I said we would leave at 9.30 but was having far too much fun so we stayed until after 11! We played a huge game of demons in which the Gibson family took all the bottom places. We have a plan however and will play [Continue]
For the last few years our church has run a marriage MOT around Valentine’s day. We were greeted by a glass of Bucks Fizz and a lovely meal. During the meal we were given a check list of things to talk about and rate how we were doing from 1-5 in areas of our lives such [Continue]
Our Christmas days follow a fairly predictable pattern. The girls get up early and open stockings we eventually wake Jonathan up and any remaining stockings are opened in our bedroom and all gifts are displayed for everyone to see. highlights this year were Rebekah spilling her tea over my lovely and expensive (certainly by our [Continue]
Our church is usually very laid back and informal but every now and again we have a “pastoral group” week. We sit in our groups and normally have to do some very silly things for example we’ve made palm Sunday models out of play dough and wrapped people up in loo roll (unused I hasten [Continue]
We had a talk at church yesterday (Easter Sunday) which talked about how the disciples must have felt on Easter Saturday - the despair they must have felt at the centre of their lives being ripped away – but also that from our perspective we can look at Good Friday and Easter Saturday with the knowledge that Sunday’s coming [Continue]
Life has been quite busy and stressful for us since about last June/July really. We have managed to clock up 6 p/t or self employed jobs between us, we’ve been trying to fight the Badman stuff and obviously HE , do Learning Zone and church things as well as normal stuff with our lives. In [Continue]
We have learnt that pretzels are traditionally made during Lent. Apparently some monks used to pray by putting their hands on their shoulders, left hand to right shoulder and vice versa. They made pretzels to remind them of the shape the arms made and hence to be a reminder to pray more during Lent. You make the [Continue]
