Small World

Categories: general

Tags: SCM

Date: 05 December 2007 23:02:59

Its the SCM theme for the year, so as a member of General Council its a fairly common phase in my life at the moment. But recently I keep discovering remembering how small this world is! Take last night as an example. I went to a church community, bring and share meal held at someones house. I was the first to arrive (was miles from my house so I allowed 'getting lost time' which I impressively didn't need!), but after chatting with the host for a few minutes, another person arrived. He turned out to be the vicar of a local church and within 10 minutes of chatting we'd discovered:
* we were born in the same maternity unit in Swansea
* he had connections with the secondary school I went to in Manchester
* he also had close connections with a church that many of my friends at school went to
* he used to live fairly near to my uni house in Swansea
* he used to be the vicar of a church with close ecumenical links to Sketty Methodist, so knew it well (but a fairly long time ago)
* and now we're involved with the same church community in Bristol.

Now I know, and accept as part of life, that one or two connections with a stranger is perfectly common and normal. But six in three different cities at varying points in our life?!?! And to top it off, after we'd discovered this the third person arrived who said as soon as he released our topic of conversation, 'oh tell me about it - her dad taught me at uni 20 odd years ago'. Small world, huh?