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Date: 10 November 2004 07:29:30
Was having a very nice meal yesterday with Revd. Mark Rudall, the Diocese communications director. very pleasant indeed, good food + good company. However I often say things, well, word things in a manner that surprises me for the words that I have chosen to use. He asked if I was doing OK bearing in mind the year had been a bit of a rollercoaster. I said that I was mostly up, occasionally down and often the victim of kindness. He looked surprised by the words. Tbh so was I. However when he asked me to explain what I meant (think fast Kercal) I put it this way.
Kindness, encouragement and generosity can be powerful forces. Far more powerful than we believe sometimes. The giving of a 10p sweet to someone in the depths of despair (not me, someone else I'm thinking of there) can be an unexpected ray of sunlight that makes other things more bearable. For me I have been in places where things have been a little ropey and someone somewhere has done something that has lifted me immeasuribly. As a for example, although I may have mentioned this before: Love Alison Moyets voice. wanted to get the latest CD when it came out in Sept. One of the youth group leaders found out that I couldn't get it so went into town and bought it for me. It blew me away and apart from feeling speechless and delighted I felt as walloped by kindness as I might have felt as walloped by (at the time) the employment tribunal. Some people say that it takes thirty confirmations to counter one attacking comment. I don't agree (mostly), although I don't think it's a bad thing to affirm people at every given opportunity.