Plus ca Change

These last few weeks have been a blur - from one thing to the other - trying to get my head around life... Again!

Lots of processes of change and transition, 'life cycles' that are probably profoundly ordinary.

Watching good things happen and rejoicing in them. My sister[-in-law] a DR with the most wonderful response to a thesis... (please correct the ten typos and get it published... Dr Fach!) We knew she could do it.

There are always other changes rumbling along. It's funny, one of my theories, pretty well attested to, is that all change brings a sense of grief, so that a loss -though it can be good and celebrated - becomes also a small grief. Weddings, passing something, having a baby, buying a house, changing jobs and so on. Anyway, I don't know why I've been thinking that, probably because I watch a lot of changes happening, and some merit being full of grief -but others are just good but still grief lingers. I am, however, of a melancholic nature!

So - other things to think about: been reading What would Jesus Deconstruct - still! And other tomes. Been trying to decide what to do about life. Been gardening quite a bit, but not as much as I'd like. And, I got a bike - Funny conversation with Derek:

Me: Cycled to work today, forgot I'm a bad cyclist.
Him: Why, did you crash?
Me: No, but my legs are sore, and I can't remember how gears work.
Him: You will.

Now, I'd love to think he's refering to me remembering, but I am afraid he probably means I'll crash.... How's that for realism?!

Anyway, Andrew and I've just been in Grimsby - stayed with friends and I was preaching at the church. I loved it - it reminded me of trips there sleeping on the floor... sketches, singing and mad laughter... I also met a lovely godly woman Betty Grossmith - whose face is beautifully peaceful. I hope someday...

Right - I'd better go home.