Liz Edwards, October/November 2008
Wednesday
Dear Diary,
It’s been a normal sort of a day – for me – started the day with prayers, so I knew it was going to be an OK day, began to write a sermon, spent time with some lovely people, popped over to the hospital for a bit, kept awake during a meeting… all in all, not a bad day.
Thursday
Dear Diary,
It’s been a long day and I’m tired now, so I’ll just tell you about one thing for today. I had to meet with T, the sound technician at the church. The loop system hadn’t been working and he fixed that really quickly but then we tried to solve another problem. We couldn’t track it. He’d had floor boards up and everything. Then I did one of those ‘arrow’ prayers – you know, you just shoot it straight up to Heaven and it says, ‘Help!’ I should have done that well before (I’m slow to learn). Right then, we started to think down another track… maybe the cable follows another line… practically ran downstairs and onto the platform where the connections are – sure enough, there it was. It was fixed in seconds after that! I have an electrician friend who reckons that God’s an electrician (Because His first recorded words are, ‘Let there be light!’), well, I think He must be a sound technician too because He really knows how things work.
Friday
Dear Diary,
The weather’s been cold and I’ve had to rush through everything all day – still a good day though. I saw the latest James Bond – great action, very fast, must see it again to catch the bits I missed.
Saturday
Dear Diary,
Kat had to go back home to London
Sunday
Dear Diary,
I like Sundays. I like that they always start with prayer and it always seems as if everything gets sorted out there and then, in the circle of chairs in the Chapel, before we get busy with all the stuff that has to be done. I like that we concentrate on Jesus and it’s a day when it’s ‘normal’ to say His name out loud and talk about all the wonderful things He’s doing. I like that we spend lots of time at church because it feels like ‘home’ there. I think I’m very blessed to have 2 homes and so many brothers and sisters. Father is very good to us.
Monday
Dear Diary,
It’s been a proper ‘day off’. Sean and I got some cupboards cleared out and the house cleaned, I did some shopping and we watched a film.
Tuesday
Dear Diary,
Home Group nearly always raises challenging questions but they’re so nice with it! I like Tuesdays. Nite Bite always brings its own challenges too. There were lots in tonight. I guess the cold weather makes that hot meal all the more inviting – not that it needed any help to be appealing: home-made ‘allotment’ soup today, followed by steak and dumplings, then home-made apple and blackberry pie and custard. No wonder everyone was happy today!
I wonder what tomorrow will bring.
Wednesday
Dear Diary,
All the commentators say that we’re living in historic times. I guess they must be right. A century from now, all the world history books will mention that this was the day that the USA
Dear Diary,
I keep thinking that 1 man can’t change the world in 1 day and that’s probably true of everyone and every time… except that it wasn’t true of Jesus. He wasn’t surrounded by tens of thousands of cheering supporters and the news wasn’t beamed around the world, but when the stone got pushed away and He sat up and unwound the grave cloths from his face, a truly historic moment had occurred. Now it’s up to us to realise it and push on through the changes that He keeps on bringing as a result of what He did then.
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