Started off the day slowly- it is my one official day off in the week... waited for Jo, Jon and Paul to clear the shower and get out to their respective courses before surfacing to coffee ( for me) and tea ( for Tim)... toast and marmalade... then out for a walk...
We went to Holme Beach, just north of Hunstanton, Sea Henge is nearby- it is an amazing part of the coastline, constantly changing each tide makes its mark- new salt marshes are appearing where there was only sand, deep gullies appear and disappear... it is hard to believe at times that you are returning to the same place! We walked for 5 miles along the shore and back... Tim went investigating various structures while I lay on the sand and allowed the sound of the waves to wash over me...
I love the sea, the smell, the sounds and the taste of salt in the air- I reflected on how my faith over the last few years has been much like this beach, fresh tides of revelation have swept over me, causing the landscape to change- but the location is still the same. I must remain centred upon Christ or I am lost- Gods love acts as an anchor for my soul, and although some of my certainties have been ripped away by tides and storms:
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.. and though I look across this new landscape in wonder- God remains the same, yet never the same... and I am lost in awe and wonder... I know that these photos show nothing but the emptiness of the horizon, but for me that is the point- I cannot know, nor can I capture the vastness of God, I cannot encompass Him in structures of my own making, nor can I explain Her .... I have fallen in love with the unknown and the unknowable, who gave everything by becoming human that I might know... and more sacrificed even that life for the love of such as me! I am overwhelmed by such love...
With a head and heart full of these wonders we headed home, soup and bread for lunch ... then for me to work, I have had no time this week to really prepare for the training day tomorrow in Woodbridge , the churches there are placing a stall into a Mind Body and Soul Exhibition, I am leading a training day tomorrow and a seminar in November at the Exhibition itself...
Here is the introduction to the seminar:
Making your journey into wholeness seminar-
Sally Coleman
This seminar takes a holistic approach to life; it seeks to show how we can relate to the universe through acknowledging the image of the creator within us, and how that divine spark might be brought effectively into being.
Stressing that we are made up of three parts; mind, body, and spirit. it looks at how an ancient approach to centring prayer based upon the Ancient Christian Scriptures can help us to achieve balance for life’s’ journey.
I have been collating training manuals this afternoon, and refreshing thoughts on the format of the day... part of it will involve role play and hopefully will not get me into too much hot water... as it did when role play was mistaken for a political agenda at the SCE Summer School!
I am looking forward to tomorrow despite the essential early start- this is my passion, this is my call- I love the spiritually hungry with a depth I cannot explain, I long to see Gods life break forth, not in trammelled boundaries but in spirit and in truth.. in my life and in the life of others...
, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Jn 8:31-32
As for the previous post, deep calls to deep and there will be more... for love will not let me go, and I must be myself before God!
