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Date: 20 January 2008 00:30:18
What can I say? It's been one of those weeks where I've just not known what to blog about, so I've ended up starting to write something most evenings but abandoning it pretty quickly.
So what's happened this week? Well, work's gone bonkers. Our department head broke a bone in her foot while on holiday over Christmas, and earlier this week one of our team leaders also broke a bone in her foot, so they're both off work and the remaining managers are being stretched trying to cover for them. Meanwhile, the rest of us seem to be even busier than usual, with lots of... what's the right way of saying this?... issues which are not straightforward to resolve. By the end of the week we were all saying how exhausted we were, and no doubt when we go back to work on Monday morning we'll all be saying how quickly the weekend has flown and how we don't feel ready to be back there yet. (Actually, there's something quite significant about Monday, which I'll talk about in my next post...)
This week has also seen the youth cell have its first two meetings of 2008 (it normally runs on alternate Fridays, but on this occasion the dates were rejigged so we had two consecutive Fridays), and it's been emotional. Literally. Without going into too much detail, there were some issues that needed raising, and the reaction to them was rather more intense than expected. However, following our second meeting, things seem to be, if not entirely resolved, then certainly moving forward.
And then there's God doing those God things that only God can really do. At cell this week we were talking about the things that help and hinder our relationship with God, and some of it was quite eye-opening for me. Now, just lately my housemate Chez and I have got into a pattern of getting back from cell and then spending a while talking through how we're feeling about anything and everything. Well, this week the talking went on much longer (and probably would have kept on even longer than that, if I hadn't had to get up at 6 the next morning) and has actually spurred me on to spend some proper times with God, something I've never been particularly good at doing in the past. Chez was supposed to be going to some church conference thing in Manchester this weekend, but due to an unexpected drain on her finances she couldn't go. So instead, we've been doing our own shambolic but enjoyable conference at home; we're jokingly referring to it as the 'Moving Forward With God Conference', but really it's little more than us getting together a few times each day to make tea and sit in front of the fire and pray and read the Bible a bit. But that's exactly what I need at the moment, and it appears Chez is the same. We'll probably have a couple more conference sessions tomorrow, following which we should be equipped to go back out into the world on Monday.
Anyway, that's the basics of my week covered. But enough about me, how have you been?