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Date: 19 April 2008 07:13:12
Ok, as regular readers know last night I was due to be talking at our women's group. Well it didn't quite turn out as expected, (but then when does anything?).
Due, we like to think, to a combination of a major fundraiser this evening to ensure one of our favourite teenagers can be shipped of to Africa this summer and the end of the Spring break the only people about last night were me, the woman running the group and a friend I'd dragged along to give moral support. Thus the evening turned into just having a good chat. So I ended up doing far more listening than talking, which was v.g.
What was interesting was as we all sat there and chatted I was reassured that I haven't completely lost the plot and that giving up perfectly good jobs in order to follow your dreams is actually far more common than we acknowledge. That was really useful for me to hear, because to be quite honest I was starting to wonder whether I have been rather too rash. I've also been wondering if I have been right in thinking I've heard God (not audibly, but still heard him) give me this vision or whether I just have an over active imagination and am turning into the sort of Christian who justifys putting their brain into nuteral by spiritualising it. Last night's discussion was great because, what I would clarify as proper grown ups, were affirming my wider vision and the forthcoming study as a step towards that.
So all in all not at all what I expected, but really useful.