Blogging

I was kind of surprised to be told by my wife that comments had started turning up on my blog and some links had been set up by other people - now I'm feeling blog pressure to actually write something!! By the way I'm struggling with the technical side of all this so haven't yet worked out how to set up a link to anybody else or 'turn on my RSS Reader' whatever that is (I'm not sure my wife would approve of that!)

Thanks everybody for making me think about stuff for a change. That's the greatest thing about this group of faith based blogs that I'm becoming aware of and part of, that there's an opportunity to discuss our faith openly and honestly in an intelligent (mostly) way and a chance to reflect a little.

I work a hectic 12 hour day Monday to Friday and spend most of the weekend running around as taxi driver for the kids, socialising with those I don't have time to see in the week and preparing for youth groups and services on Sunday, and that's assuming there's no DIY to do or electrical appliances to fix - not much time for reflection there generally.

I feel like any spirituality I'm able to dish out or be involved in is built on the head of steam I built up in my 20's and 30's as a christian when I had time to go to Bible Studies, listen to sermons at other peoples services or just pray. I keep expecting to run out of inspiration, run out of insights about God or just plain run out of sight of God amongst all the christian busy-ness, church politics and general hassle of daily life.

Thank God (literally) that I haven't run low on Him yet - or is it he hasn't run low on me? Thank God that we can sit at our computers late at night and engage in some honest thinking together. Thanks to people like Maggi and Jonny for getting our thought buds going. Thank God for blogs!