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Sunday Blues

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Did you read Anne of Green Gables as a child?

I did, repeatedly. Still do every time I go back to my childhood home where the complete set sits on the bookshelf. I am nostalgic for it today. Bliss is away and the house has been quieter than a quiet thing. I feel sadly lacking in kindred spirits (if you read Anne you would recognize the phrase) to air my thoughts with. Sigh…

I have a lesson plan for Wednesday mocking me for having had 2 months to plan and only looking at it now. So now I have an 8 week lecture series to prepare for and so am taking the usual road of planning it week by week and hoping for the best. It is 3.27pm, I have church to go to at 6 and I have really only been out of bed since lunchtime. I have never felt less motivated.

Pathetic.

I can’t wait to get back to work tomorrow – how sad is that??? I used to get the Sunday blues at around 7pm when the weekend was nearly over and the thought of work was the depression stick wielded over us.

And now? Work makes the world feel set on the right axis.

Was thinking about ditching church tonight but it might just be the thing to tip me back on the right track.

Two Hours Well Spent

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Usually it is my internet hook up that ties up my phone line… (Yes, I am still on dial-up … Sigh)

Tonight I was actually talking on the phone. To a friend that I last spoke to around 2 years ago.

Don’t you love having people in your world with whom you totally pick up from whence you left? it is Utterly Brilliant.

TwinSet and I were friends at my last outpost of Kiwi Living – in Northland, and she is great, a real treasure. In the years (5.5) since I left she and her husband have trained for the ministry and are now full time pastors. Complete with twin set and pearls and the odd plate of scones…

They have a small church of 40 stalwart members and a wounded one at tha sadly…. Maybe I should give them Curate’s address by way of encouragement…

Anyway, we had a proper catch up, on all our own news and the news of the members of our old parish. Planning not to leave it 2 years before we do it again…

D2 with YGM2 tomorrow … going out to explore our shared passion…

For Photography!

(Had you going though didn’t I?! )

Word Association (or not)

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On occasion there are certain words in the English language that grab me. I guess I am usually more fascinated by words than pictures. It is probably the writer thing… Do you know the crazy part? I never ‘got’ English in school. Never figured out what it was for. If I had my time over I’d be doing an English Lit major at some university… followed by being a features writer for a magazine.

Anyway, as I said there are words that get me… here are some, they are in random order, they also appeal to me for random reasons, some for sound, some for meaning, some for no other reason that the prospect of turning them over in my mind and mincing them for their content, reshaping them to be used elsewhere; as inspiration, as meditation, as sword or shield. God uses words, both for and against us, I think it’s significant his legacy beyond salvation was a message in print, and that so much of that book has the power to move and change me. As much for the words as the spirit behind them.

Anyway…

1. steadfast
2. obstreperous
3. obsequious
4. serendipity
5. ethereal
6. earth station
7. aroha (a maori word for love)
8. familiar
9. beautiful
10. faithful
11. pilgrim

Good News all Round Really

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It looks as though the flatmate dilemma may have sorted itself out without me having to spend any more money on advertising for a complete stranger to move in..

I am a little bit thankful about that…

I showed the room off to a friend of a friend last night, a girl with whom I have been acquainted for a number of years through my time studying at college. So she is very keen,yet is not in a tearing hurry to leave her current abode. I still don’t have a final date from Bliss as her bosses are trying very hard to keep her here in Sydney so having someone with that flexibility is brilliant…

So, it is gratifying to know that I don’t have to stress any longer about housemates… I can just keep stressing about all the other stuff!!

There is a meeting today to decide the fate of my pay review… if you happen to be praying could you put in a good word? For my salary to stay as it is and for me to survive probably means getting another job… I am reluctant to commit to a real live 2nd job instead of just the casual babysitting I do … So if the powers that be are listening to God, who has been listening to me … I am sure they will come up with the goods… And if he has been listening to you too it will be in the bag!

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