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Date: 01 September 2005 13:36:07
What goes up must come down, and that includes me. I'm supposed to be starting my new job on Monday, but it may well be delayed so I'm a bit depressed about that. The father-in-law is still in hospital, and we're trying to plan Sunday's Graceland service - hopefully infused with a little post-greenbelt sparkle.
It's based loosely on the theme of dependence and where we put our trust (see my blog entry from last month) and designed around Monopoly. I spent some time this morning making a Faithopoly board where you can "buy" some wilderness time in the desert of Sinai, or some time in the storms on the sea of galilee. There are Pick a Parable cards instead of Chance - where you can pick up the story of the farmer and his new barns, and a couple of others about where you put your trust. Hopefully it will make people think about the things we accumulate and rely on instead of God. It's making me think, anyway. Greenbelt was, I think, a bit like Free Parking, but the trick is to make the whole thing work in ordinary life as well. Need to write some liturgy too before Sunday night. I love doing graceland, but it's lots of work.
Just organising my friend's hen-night too. So looking forward to being a bridesmaid for her (she's absolutely lovely and I've been friends with her and fiance since college) I've organised a spa day locally for hens and then dinner in London in the evening, people can then stay at mine and we'll have brunch in the morning. Hope it will be ok. Two weekends to go, and then the wedding on Oct 1.
All busy stuff, but cool. If only I could stop obsessing about the job. It's hard not knowing who I'll be working for on Monday. Compared with the terrible news yesterday in Iraq and New Orleans it seems pretty irrelevant though. Whatever anyone heard at the journalism seminar at Greenbelt, this job isn't all about death (at least not a national level) but there was certainly a lot of it about yesterday. Lord comfort your people in the midst of this suffering.