miércoles, noviembre 01, 2006

bonjour, mes amis...

oh please forgive me.
for the love of internet! i have some at my new house...and no computer...
i have some at work and no access to blog sites...
but then - i found that one can email to one's very own blog
geeks are so smart. blogger geeks - i salute you!
commentators.....again, please forgive my neglect....
i have not one excuse. not even a bad one, so i offer none. i am crap.
well, i'm not sure about that last part, but i am sorry
i could write one of those nice long list-posts, i think i'm quite good at those...
or i could not say anything at all about what i've been doing, and just start with today.

truth is, not much has happened.
i am not near to god, in my heart, and therefore i am not changing. and not changing means there's really not much to tell.

but, i have moved to blair road, finally taking my turn at living in the wezzle homestead. the top floor flat is mine all to myself with no smelly boys, no disappeared toilet paper and no washing up left around the place.
the night before i left heald to go there, helen spied me looking rather nervous. she was like -oh, you know jesus is waiting there for you, don't you! nowhere to hide, nowhere to go, just you and him- and she smelt the fear. and now i know that the fear was entirely founded, in the reality that when left alone, backed into a corner with god, he's there waiting and i think he's been waiting a while. he's staring at me and its making me nervous. i now live with him, and no-ne else, and he knows everything about me. and he still likes me.
thunderbolt city.

i am now learning that life fully with jesus, with all the ups and downs and questions without answers and challenge and intensity and quietness and general collage of contradiction, is so much better than the last six weeks or so, probably more, of bland, quietly-corrupted, self-absorbed, prayer-less unholy holiday....it really has been rather alot longer than six weeks, too......there have been moments, where i have wanted to know god, and been temporarily committed to that idea, never really gaining enough speed with it for it to be mistaken for pursuit. but i do not want moments anymore. i want whole afternoons, days, weeks and decades of walking with god. enoch managed 300 years of walking with the lord. imagine.

i know i have made statements of intent, and rash promises, on these very pages enough times before, so i am not about to do that again today. but i do want to break this cursed cycle of a jesus-less autumn, because it is, after all, my favourite time of year, and you should always be with those you want to love the most at your favourite time of year.

look at it! just look outside - shiny and blue and clean and freakin cold - my all-time favourite weather......

hats on people, mitten up, its time to read the bible....

7 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...

amen, bring it on i say!
it is SO lovely to have you here in blair road anna
...although in the light of your recent post, i must confess to having nicked a loo roll from the mountain the gribbons left in your bathroom....i am aware that it is still stealing and i am sorry, and i really want this to be a safe, non-loo-roll-disappearing place for you, so i am infact doubly sorry x

Anónimo dijo...

Huzzah - you came back! Here's to Jesus and mittens and tea and autumn and bonfires and teaching Fran how to knit super scarves like yours and decorating and the Christmas market and snow! Welcome back...
Love you!
x

Anónimo dijo...

i enjoyed reading that very much.

thanks

and right now, on this glorious autunm night, i am at work with my knitted beanie on that cate made...and all the kids love me.

give it up for winterly weather indeed! x

Ulrike dijo...

Yeah welcome back Anna. Rejoice in him always. xxx

Tom and Anna dijo...

wooo hoo! Good one Hayward, I love ya!
Isn't your 7th birthday coming up soon?
Did you know 7 is the number of perfection?!
Anna P

na dijo...

sure is sugar, on the 14ths of november, to be exact.....cards and presents would be lovely!!

hands up who remembers the gibbering wreck of an anna h, who was the first ever person to become a christian ON a CU houseparty...?!

wooohoo and yay

Anónimo dijo...

i do...(currently holding my hand up and typing with the other)...twas a good'un...although from what i remember the only part of the houseparty you enjoyed was getting to know jesus.....happy days...will have an extra special EMP on the 14th in your honour.
love ya x