If There's One Thing We Are Called To Do
Seeing as it's Sunday I thought I would begin by briefly sharing my thoughts following church this morning, which incidentally was great. We were looking at Psalm 95 and the idea of 'worship', and I came away struck by the fact that our main calling in life is to worship God, to honour Him for who He is, and what He's done. It's so easy to busy ourselves with a multitude of things, or to stand at a distance that we perhaps don't make time for God or develop intimacy with Him in the way that he wants us to.
So there you go. This weekend has been quite a good one. Lara and Tom have both been celebrating their 21st birthdays (a belated Happy Birthday, guys) and my friend Richard was visiting, which was fun. There have been a few comic moments, notably Josh 'Chez' Down's uncharacteristically chav way of greeting some of the first years in the quad last night. I'm fairly certain that you would have had to be there to find it funny, but I thought I'd (rather pointlessly) share it with you anyway. For those of you who've not had the pleasure of meeting him, it has to be said that Josh is truly a College Legend.
Amongst all the socialising and the work (yes, really) I've also had the pleasure of seeing Mrs JP, who turns out not to have gone as mad as I'd feared. I popped round with the obligatory white carnation for her first exam tomorrow (it's an Oxford thing) and some chocolates (a necessity, it seems, to keep women happy).
Given the number of comments on the matter, I thought I had better introduce Mrs JP properly, and mention her by name, as she asked. Mrs JP refers to the lovely Jo, my college wife (though that is the only way in which we are married) and girlfriend. I refer to her as Mrs JP because I feel that she should be more than another one in the list of names in my corner of the blogosphere, and the term 'girlfriend' is unoriginal and bland. I could of course have resorted to using 'bird' but think that it (along with other words beginning with 'b') would only be of use if I wanted her to ditch me - yes, she has been reading this.
Thanks so much to those of you who've taken the time to comment on my blog - keep the comments coming, it's always much appreciated.
I hope you have a very happy Sunday evening. If you're unfortunate to have exams coming up in the next couple of days I would at this point like to wish you all the very best.
Until next time...
So there you go. This weekend has been quite a good one. Lara and Tom have both been celebrating their 21st birthdays (a belated Happy Birthday, guys) and my friend Richard was visiting, which was fun. There have been a few comic moments, notably Josh 'Chez' Down's uncharacteristically chav way of greeting some of the first years in the quad last night. I'm fairly certain that you would have had to be there to find it funny, but I thought I'd (rather pointlessly) share it with you anyway. For those of you who've not had the pleasure of meeting him, it has to be said that Josh is truly a College Legend.
Amongst all the socialising and the work (yes, really) I've also had the pleasure of seeing Mrs JP, who turns out not to have gone as mad as I'd feared. I popped round with the obligatory white carnation for her first exam tomorrow (it's an Oxford thing) and some chocolates (a necessity, it seems, to keep women happy).
Given the number of comments on the matter, I thought I had better introduce Mrs JP properly, and mention her by name, as she asked. Mrs JP refers to the lovely Jo, my college wife (though that is the only way in which we are married) and girlfriend. I refer to her as Mrs JP because I feel that she should be more than another one in the list of names in my corner of the blogosphere, and the term 'girlfriend' is unoriginal and bland. I could of course have resorted to using 'bird' but think that it (along with other words beginning with 'b') would only be of use if I wanted her to ditch me - yes, she has been reading this.
Thanks so much to those of you who've taken the time to comment on my blog - keep the comments coming, it's always much appreciated.
I hope you have a very happy Sunday evening. If you're unfortunate to have exams coming up in the next couple of days I would at this point like to wish you all the very best.
Until next time...
Comments
I like the way you take such an interest in church, and stay focused on the sermon etc...which I think, even if you a 'believer' is quite feat. I know that when I was officially RC, I had serious issues concentrating after more than five minutes. And now I am even worse - all I can remember about our 5 minute sermon this morning, is that it was about loving yourself for who you are, and that the speaker said 'Gee-sus' - as in 'sussed out'.
Although I don't believe in a lot of the religious opinions, I do find it interesting to hear what other people think...
Ok, this is a little long. Sorry!