david's blog

Sometimes as clergy we are invited to preach somewhere and we say yes and then afterwards think - why did i give up my sunday afternoon - especially during advent. Well that is maybe how i felt jumping on the train at King's Cross after my morning service on Sunday - but it wasn't how i felt at the end of the day.

Even with a sat nav thing - i must confess i can get lost so easily. Partly as i think i know the way and try and speak to the device or argue against it. Sat navs can't turn the car round when we make a mistake we have to admit the mistake and turn back. One night coming from Heathrow i got so lost i ended up near Milton Keynes - all because I thought i knew the way i was going and so the journey to Essex was a very interesting one. Thankfully i was alone.

So often waiting is hard for us to do.  Although we British are deemed to be a nation of people who queue, waiting is not something we do with patience (just look at the people waiting for a bus in Oxford Street). We want instant access to many things. Instant Accounts. Instant Coffee (yuck). And sometimes when we seek patience our prayer is "God give me patience and give me it now."

After trying not to blog for so long, and for thinking that people who blog don's have enough work to do - i have finally given in and decided that it is a good way to get a message accross.

So if you can cope with my poor spelling etc then we should be fine and hopefully there will be something of interest.