I spent the day at home while the plumber fixed our bathroom, and used the time to plan Sunday evening's Taize Service. I enjoy Taize worship, the reflective space it enables, the periods of silence, the engagement of something far beyond the intellect and the emotions.
Good news from the twins, Jon has gained the lead role in a Theatre Production at Lancaster, and Joanne has successfully completed an exam and signed a contract on a house for next year. I can hardly believe they are half way through their first year at University! Chris has had exams too, and is currently looking at the tensions present in making theological connections in evangelism.
Tim and I are being asked to consider the future, that could mean a move in September...
I am going to the Dr's tomorrow for some tests, I am not really ill, but aware that something is not right, something is effecting me physically and emotionally, it would be easy to ignore, but it is slowly draining me of energy of every kind.
And now I am chilling for a bit- watching Torchwood and browsing blogs...... challenged by The Winged man who says:
One of the little curmudgeonly tidbits Merton in New Seeds is an emphasis on solitude, especially his assertion that solitude is about being able to be in your own company. He diagnoses many societal ills as the result of most people being unable to stand their own company. So much so, Merton asserts, that we talk all the time, watch TV all the time, work all the time, listen to the radio all the time, and all so compulsively, so we won’t come into intimate, prolonged contact with the magnificently terrifying beauty of our own souls —our own selves— especially if our souls have also become deformed by the very things that help us remain distracted from our own company.
How noisy/ intrusive is blogging? And am I in contact with the ebauty of my own soul?- Something to think on........
