2010 was when....

• I had my first experiences of India (see here for more)
• I turned 40...
• Sheryl & I went to New York to mark both of us turning 40!
• The fun of 3 children at 3 different schools began to kick in
• I had the privelege of baptising an 8o year old man and 15 year old girl in the same service
• My brain and spirit were stretched by the HTB "Holy Spirit in the world today" conference
• I got a BlackBerry (!)
• Youthwork sped up the agenda at WCF, and we learnt a lot about not being able to control everything as we looked at taking on an Oasis Youthwork student
• The boiler at home nearly set the house on fire, meaning that we had to get central heating installed unexpectedly.

There was a lot more besides, but these are some headlines...here's to 2011.

Happy Christmas

Keep thinking that I ought to post a kind of review of 2010 thingy, best of bits etc; but as yet I haven't had the time and/or motivation! It might happen next week, though, you never know.

That being the case, I'll wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a great 2011....

New Year blues?

Some people seem to get very excited about the whole New Year thing. I have to admit I don't really. After all, it's all a bit arbitrary when we start the year; we could have New Year in April if we wanted. Basically, on 1st January we'll wake up to another day that will be a lot like 31st December in lots of ways.

Or maybe I'm just being a bit grumpy about it all. I think some of it is I don't enjoy the whole "Let's look back and review" thing, and am not really disciplined enough for the serious planning for the New Year thing (as I said in an earlier post it's often the unplanned for that takes up time and energy in any case). Maybe it's a temperament thing, at least in part. My friend Johnny has a great post about planning here; guaranteed to make you feel a worm if you live in semi-chaos a lot of the time like me. And no doubt my friend Gareth will soon email round his review of 2009, with all the countries he's preached in counted and analysed...


Anyway, this is for those of us who are just trying to live a day at a time (sounds biblical enough to me!)....have a Happy Day today and tomorrow and the day after too, whatever the month or year!!