Category Archives: personal bits

the big picture

Last week we had a bunch of lovely interesting people come and visit for our open week. Its a great opportunity for some to take a step back from ‘normal’ life and into an experience of living breathing practical Christian community. Visitors sample our everyday life of learning together, working together, living together and worshipping [...]

love is … a room full of razor blades

If you’re wondering how that could possibly be both true and a good thing, think of Eustace Scrubb in Lewis’ “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.” love is loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong suffering. love is not nice pictures of sunsets and flowers. pretending that everything is OK is not love. pretending to love is not love. saying that [...]

 

weather talking

Last Saturday was indeed the first day of spring and did not disappoint. It was a 50 k’s of bike riding in the sun kind of weekend. Very very nice. But I need a new bike seat and I’m wearing holes in my pants. Yesterday and today are a different kind of story. The wind [...]