by emma | Oct 2, 2007 | Everything Else
I had such a lovely day chilling out in Edinburgh on Saturday. The weather was beautiful, for one thing! I did very little… some window shopping, lunch in a restaurant I’d always wanted to try, a visit to Jim Garrahys Fudge Kitchen (yum!), coffee over several hours reading a novel (something I don’t read much!), a walk in the park… I wandered through the Meadows for a while in the early evening sunshine, it was so beautiful. It wasn’t too busy, and yet it was great just to watch people playing. I’m rediscovering play. Doing things for no other reason than because they bring me joy.
Some visual documentation:
[Royal Mile]
[Pretty roof]
[The Meadows]
[Fudge Kitchen]
[Found this little clothes shop and adored the name and the reminder… I’m just a ragamuffin, loved by God]
[View from the coffee shop window]
by emma | Sep 28, 2007 | Faith
I’m going to Edinburgh tomorrow for the day…
I’m learning that I need to be alone to rest and refresh. I’m learning that I need to plan regular time in where I do that. If I don’t, other things (good, worthwhile things) will crowd in and I wont rest. I’m learning how much I need to depend on Jesus for everything.
I’m also learning how much I talk and don’t do. There is such a dichotomy between what I say and what I do. I’m working on that one. I long to be a person of integrity. I long to be someone whose yes is yes and no is no. Someday I will be that person.
So, tomorrow I am in Edinburgh. On my own. With a book or two. A few cups of coffee. A park visit. Hopefully lunch in my favourite restaurant there. A camera. I will be unobtainable for the most part. See you on Sunday… perhaps!
by emma | Sep 25, 2007 | Faith, Words
“The truth is, we’re always a bit restles. We’re supposed to be. This is not a flaw in our faith, it is faith’s substance. It is a divine ruse to keep us from making permanent settlement this side of eternity…
When we recognise that our loneliness, our hunger, our weariness, our disappointment – that these are not final verdicts but only rumours of things unseen, it changes their meaning. It empties them of their power to defeat us. It fills them with an energy to spur us toward deeper hope.”
[The Rest Of God – Mark Buchanan]
I finished this book today (sitting in the blazing sunshine in Offshore drinking a coffee… it’s good!) and came across this gem of a passage as it draws to a close. When I read this, I suddenly went, “yes!” That’s me. Restlessness is ok, it leads to deeper dependancy on Abba, God. All the things I battle with, they lead depper into Abba. I am constantly being reminded how much all is required of us is to lift our eyes of ourselves and fix them on Jesus… he’ll do the rest.
by emma | Sep 23, 2007 | Everything Else
…
Soooooo good to be back. I can’t even explain how I feel now in being back.
Got in about 10pm last night.
Church this morning. Jamie is doing a series on sex, started last week. Refreshingly honest.
Curlers for lunch with a load of mates.
Oran Mor for rugby with some girlies.
Dinner with Stoopsie and a new friend.
Rest is coming…
by emma | Sep 22, 2007 | Everything Else
by emma | Sep 21, 2007 | Words
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’
hierarchies? And even if one of them suddenly
pressed me against his heart, I would perish
in the embrace of his stronger existence.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure and are awed
because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Each single angel is terrifying.
[Duino Elegies – Rainer Maria Rilke]
I am rediscovering how much I love the work of Rilke.
by emma | Sep 20, 2007 | Photography
In The Spray
Originally uploaded by emmaboyd.
by emma | Sep 20, 2007 | Everything Else
Tomorrow is my last day at work… 6 weeks come to an end! I’m hoping that I can get back to some decent blogging again. I dunno, it takes it out of you! Kinda drains your energy.
Some random thoughts:
I’m loving reading and exploring the concept of Sabbath right now.
There’s potentially some exciting new things re: photography kicking off.
I have another flight out of the country booked… guess where and when? (Unless you already know!!)
I’m looking at next summers trips… flights are expensive!
I still really want a nice wide-angle lens for my camera.
by emma | Sep 15, 2007 | Everything Else
I’m in Glasgow 🙂
Yea, so I realised I haven’t done a great job at updating you all (like, all 3 of you) recently! I’ve been working full-time in an office, 8:30-4:30 Mon-Fri. Realising how much working full-time takes it out of you actually. I’ll blog about my trip to the US soon hopefully, and get some more pictures on flickr.
When I haven’t been working I’ve just been catching up with friends. It’s been great to hang out with folks I hadnt seen in a while.
This weekend I’m in Glasgow. Came across on the boat with my parents and wee bro to move my stuff into my flat. Just moved into a flat in Partick with a couple of girls, pretty excited about living with them. Can’t wait for term to start to be honest. I head back to NI on Sunday evening for another weeks work before I’m back in Glasgow proper. Term starts next Tuesday 25th I do believe.
It’s nice to be in Glasgow… get to go to my church, see friends I’ve missed, and so on. Went to Offshore today, was lovely to be back!
Righto… off to put the wee bro to bed!
by emma | Sep 12, 2007 | Words
“‘Those who are limping are still walking”
A friend sent me that quote today in an email. I do believe I love it.
Limp on…
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