I'm going to Graceland, Graceland

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Date: 07 February 2005 11:26:58

The service last night went well, although more I think because God is good, than because we had prepared it well. We used Jenny Baker's miracles liturgy (lord we believe you can do miracles, but even if you don't, you are still God).. and had four stations round the room. One gave people a place to take bible and other quotes on miracles out of a bowl and meditate on them, one where people could meditate on and look at bread and wine, one with statistics from Bill Bryson's History of Nearly Everything, about the miracle that life is and just how unlikely it is (there was also a mirror there, and a globe). Then we had one where people could write and draw. And at the end we had post it notes that people could stick to the cross with prayers and thoughts. We left them up at the end of the evening, and it looked beautiful and very moving to read what people had written.
We'd also done a powerpoint thing with music and allowed people some time to talk quietly in threes or fours, which they enjoyed, about what miracles were, and what happens when you pray for a miracle and it doesn't happen, and whether it is right to expect God to do miracles. Ipod made a fantastic alternative worship tool and we used a lot of U2's new album. But by far the best thing was seeing people sit around and chat afterwards with wine and canapes.

Work is awful. Masses of redundancies (if you hadn't guessed which paper I work for you should be able to by now)... everything up in the air. It's most unpleasant. Still, gives me lots of time to work on my faith and the fact that my character shouldn't be defined by who I work for and what I do (always a danger).