floating voter

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Date: 31 January 2005 14:34:35

On Saturday I voluntarily suspended myself in a warmish tub full of Epsom salts in a bath for an hour... and actually it was really rather nice. We were at a spa for a friends' hen weekend, and this strange practice was
one of the treatments on offer. Here's what the website has to say about it.

"Floating is "a method of attaining the deepest rest that humankind has ever experienced." During a float session, you spend an hour lying in the dark, mostly in complete quiet, suspended in a skin temperature solution of Epsom salts only 25cm deep. The salt solution in the float tank is so dense that you float effortlessly and it's impossible to sink. "

I don't know whether it really did me any more good than lying in the dark for an hour normally does, but I definitely needed a rest. I wondered idly whether it was a good "alternative worship" experience or not - in the sense that it is good to realise you are not responsible for everything all the time, and the sense of something or someone taking complete control of everything - even the weight of yourself - can be extraordinarily liberating. And no-one could phone me, text me or panic me while I was in this tank thing - and all the things I normally wonder and worry about seemed completely out of my hands and weirdly far away. I slept pretty well afterwards too.

We're planning our second ever alt.worship service this week (called Graceland. I'm sure its not the only one called that, but we weren't meaning to nick anyone's name) on Miracles. I'm trying to find lots of press cuttings on miracles at the moment for one of the stations so people can think about what a miracle really is and what we routinely describe as miraculous. Then we've got the usual powerpoint type stuff, and some ritual bits and bobs. Hopefully it will work. Miracles a tricky subject and we've spent so much time worrying about hospital stuff that worship hasn't been at the forefront of my mind and this service certainly hasn't. But it should have been.

Going to Finland in two weeks time for a wedding. What do you wear for a wedding when it's minus ten degrees outside?