It must be a long time since I regularly posted on here since this is the first time I have used a Horrors track in a title and I have liked them for over a year now.
I should be posting a lot more as I am starting to get a sense of where I want to go on my personal journey of faith and where we want to go as a family. For me, this is likely to be the last year of Weekenders, or rather the last year of my involvement in it. Would be great to think that it will live on beyond my tenure but I can’t see it, Katy is hoping to go to Uni and Pete has never shown any real interest in leading the group.
I have been doing a lot of juggling this summer, trying to perfect some tricks and just get more solid with it. This has reminded me of my earlier ideas to take up some sort of clown persona and go out and ‘do my thing’ to schools/church groups etc. So I think I will be some sort of vagabond, name wise, and my main message will be that you have to get the basic things right in your life. If you get your relationships with yourself, those around you and God in balance then you can go on to live a pretty good life. Of course that is 3 elements which, by an amazing coincidence, is exactly how many things I can juggle competently!!
Once I have the act thought through more I will video it and post its development on here somewhere.
For the family, we have been looking for somewhere we can belong. Somewhere we can put our faith up to some rigorous intellectual challenges as well as build some significant relationships with our friends, both old and new. Not managed it yet. We tried Sanctus but it didn’t work because of their location and focus on the city centre. Anne tried the Baptist church, which was lovely and is probably somewhere we will do the major religious festivals, but that was too much like a step backwards after all we have done with BCLC. Katy has been keen on SOS at our former church but I do not want to go back there.
So we must look to something new. My latest idea is to organise a ‘retreat’ style weekend away, somewhere we can exercise mind, body and heart. Our plan is to invite all our favourite people from all the things we have attended over the years (Swanwick, Greenbelt, church etc.) along with friends with whom we have never had a spiritual connection before, to a weekend of yoga, meditation, eating, worship, drinking, walking, playing. The idea would be to get ‘specialists’ to help with the planning (e.g. Bob and Cath could organise a walk, Pete could do some games, Stuart could do some worship etc. etc., you get the idea)
A lot to work out but we are keen to try to get it going. Will it be what we are looking for? Who can say?
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