It's nice to be part of something

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Date: 23 January 2005 20:52:09

Before anybody starts I know "nice" is not a word to be used, but used properly it is a very good word to describe the glow inside you get when you really feel part of something.

At the moment I really feel part of our church community, which seems to be doing community in a big way at the moment.

Last night it was a party for a friend who had found a job after long term unemployment and it was one of those everybody was talking to everybody type of events based on a community getting together to celebrate good news. It was also an opportunity to tell a number of people I was staying about and it was soooo nice to hear the reactions (we all like to hear we're appreciated now and then). Also the food was v.g. (including the banoffee pie which turned out to be something with coffee and Tia Maria in which I can't pronounce).

Today we went round to a friends for lunch after church which was again just really nice. Church itself was ok, they've started a series on the beatitudes and I was very good and wasn't the first one to mention "blessed be the cheesemakers" at the end, there are now a group of us waiting for the week they get to that one ;-)

Also it looks like I will have a willing band of helpers ready to move me at the end of the week, the sheer kindness of everybody is kinda doing my head in at the moment (in a good way).