Well, what a week! Here we are, four days into lockdown 3 and eight days into 2021. Doesn't it feel like longer?! Anyway, I am rating this week 5/10. Highs and lows, highs and lows. One Sunday I preached at the joint service, about God being with us on our journey even when the road [...]
So, for the first time in 76 weeks, I am a day late for my Weekly Check-in! But as it was Christmas Day yesterday, I figured it could wait 24 hours or so. This week is getting: 6.5/10. It's Christmas, which is lovely. The three services went far better than I expected, which was fab. [...]
It feels absolutely insane that I have been here at The Good Shepherd for six months. In many ways, the time has flown by! But, six months is half a year, a good amount of time and, as Nathan said, 'what have we done in six months?' Well, by my reckoning I've done: 0 weddings, [...]
In the many hours I spent unable to do very much when I had Covid, I got a lot of time to think and reflect. Lockdown meant that I went from curate to incumbent very quickly without being able to say goodbye properly. Thoughts about my time as a curate had been springing up for [...]
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