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Date: 07 March 2008 23:13:53
If you're feeling kindly disposed towards me, perhaps you'd remember me in your prayers.
Please pray that the assignments I have completed towards my Local Preacher training will be satisfactory to get me enough of a grade to pass (and that I will be satisfied with my mark, even if it isn't as high as I'd like). In particular, there's one assignment which I found really quite hard to do one way and so decided to do in a completely different way which may not be accepted. Please, God, please let the assessors see in it the creativity and depth of understanding and thought which went into it and see that it is at least as appropriate, if not more so, than the conventional interpretation of the assignment. After all, if I am asked to write a meditation on images of God, surely including actual images in a PowerPoint presentation to stimulate thought, along with words to guide that thinking, is a modern approach which caters for a wider range of the congregation than simply words. Surely? Please don't let me have to do it all again! (All the assignments for this Unit - a quarter of the whole course - have to be submitted by the end of March or else wait until next November, As I'm so far behind, I really don't want to miss this deadline!).
On the subject of prayer, please remember the Smudgelet too. The turn in his foot which we had hoped would heal itself has instead become more marked and is beginning to cause pain in his Achilles tendon. His other foot also seems to be beginning to turn inwards. He has an appointment next week to assess whether I need to take him over to see the specialist in Southampton. He's excited by the attention but fearful of what it might signify, and this at a time when he's feeling a bit low anyway.
And because all good things come in threes, my immune system seems reluctant to kick back into action properly. I've had blood tests just to be on the safe side, but my doctor thinks that it is a reaction to all the years of stress and that I have to be patient with myself as it will take quite some time before I recover my strength and verve completely. How do I explain that at school when every tiny bug knocks me for six? But although I've been off for most of this week, I have to say that I am feeling potentially far better now that I'm getting over the cough and cold which laid me low - a bit like the phoenix rising from the ashes. So the potential is there - come on, immune system, I'm ready to be properly well!