Categories: uncategorized
Date: 20 February 2003 12:06:00
fortunately i have the day off which is a Good Thing as the drains are being done. This process began two years ago (well no, the actual work began yesterday, two years would be crap workmanship in the extreme) when they blocked a few times, then it's taken absolutely ages to get the insurance people and the drain fixing people and, well, me, to the point where it was good to Actually Get the Work Done. In the mean time the drains haven't blocked at all, although i have always kind of known they could. Anyway it means that right now i can go the loo but can't flush. I kind of need to wee but am scared i'm going to flush out of habit, rendering the workmen, um, wet. Too much information for a wiblog? I thought so.
I am inspired today by wanderings into the world of loosely alt worship websites (i say loosely alt worship cos you know, people use the term or don't, it doesn't matter, but it means you probably kind of know what i mean) through the blog of steve collins linked from the front page. Go on, pop to the front page and explore it yourself [incedentally i just managed to not flush, enough said. or too much, quite possibly]. What i was thinking (mostly when arriving at the front page of www.landingplace.org) was that it simply warms the heart to know that people all over the place are still making it up as they go along in a kind of creative response to god, a creativity that extends beyond what we do in meetings to the ways in which we uhhh [right word would be.. not 'structure', too rigid, maybe 'manage', no no NO, too controlling... 'shape', too manufactured, not organic enough, although it's closer... oh, i don't know... 'foster'? nah, it's just not a word i like. 'do' is lazy language i think. you get the picture. if you know the word i'm looking for do Comment... you'll probably find it was on the tip of my tongue (my fingers? more accurate for a blog, not quite so alliterative] community... Do you see? Actually i felt inspired because in the last six months there has been busyness, grief, lethargy, work, productivity, drinking, christmas and new year (both full of much needed comfort and joy); apart from the little oasis of that season (christmas and new year... i ought to rewrite that properly, but i'm not going to) there has been little time for ponderings about the faith. everything else has slightly skewed as a result; it doesn't change things in any real sense - it does kind of take the shine off, though.
anyway it's not just a few websites that have brought this stuff back into focus for me, but maybe reading other people's writing gave me a vehicle from which i could articulate it. hmmm, a poor use of metaphor. remind self this isn't work, and it doesn't matter.