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Date: 22 August 2007 22:08:39
I am off to Greenbelt on Friday and I CANNOT WAIT!! This year I am taking two of my friends, Ojalae and Jonathan with me. Neither have been to Greenbelt before, and Ojalae has never been camping. He was pretty horrified when I mentioned that there aren't really many showers.
Ojalae is quite anxious about going, but I am sure he will have an amazing time. He asked me what it is like, and I was trying to put into words how I feel about going to the festival. When I went two years ago my faith was really damaged, I had left a charismatic church a few months before and I was still trying to work through whether I believed in anything at all. The only thing I had to compare it to was big Christian conferences like Stoneleigh. Looking back I feel that at those events I was carried along on a huge tidal wave of emotion. It was all very souped up and exaggerated, and l wonder now how much of it was actually genuine. Greenbelt was entirely different. I felt as though God had dumped me in the middle of a field and said "Look at all this... go and have a look around... have a look at all the different faces of faith... this is what it is really about". It was a strangely liberating weekend, and whilst my faith still feels tattered, torn, stained and damaged, I really believe there is something to hold onto. So, my last words to Ojalae were "Greenbelt makes me feel genuine".
So, to all who are going... I hope to see you there :)
Ps) The car is sorted... all I can say is Norton Way Honda in Letchworth were brilliant. I have never been to a garage that was so helpful and I want to give them a plug! I even wrote them a thank you letter when I got back to the office.