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Date: 03 December 2005 19:03:57
It's finished. At long last, the thesis is done. It's not handed in yet, due to an accumulation of 'stuff', namely the secretary not being in yesterday afternoon, my printer going to sleep for an hour or so mid-printing, and then running out of ink. I've printed the appendices, which are about half of it anyway! So, sometime in the next day or so I'll finish the printing, and take it in on Tuesday when the secretary's back! So, even though there's always something which will go wrong, the advantage of having set my own deadline is that there's room to allow for these hiccups. And I'm still rather pleased with myself for sticking this closely to my self-imposed deadline. So all is well.
And tomorrow we're singing in church again (I seem to be managing an awful lot of singing at the moment, which isn't a bad thing. As long as the singing itself isn't awful!), in the evening 'reflective service' for advent. Another song by Sydney Carter, who wrote some wonderful songs- a man with a great way with words. This one is one of my favourites, the words are just amazing. The first verse is just magic.
Come, love carolling along in me!
Come, love carolling along in me!
All the while, wherever I may me,
I carry the maker of the world in me.
Lifting and loving you that I am not,
Though your body is my bone and blood,
I wonder at the maker who can be
Before I am and yet a child of me.
Chorus
I lift and I carry you to Bethlehem,
I lift and I carry you to Galilee
I'll carry you wherever I may be,
I carry the maker of the world in me.
Chorus
In the beginning you were there, I know,
And you will carry me wherever I go.
I'll carry you wherever I may be,
I carry the maker of the world in me
Chorus