by emma | Nov 15, 2006 | Books, Everything Else
I’m in Glasgow again. I know… I’m hard to track down some days.
Yesterday I was at a promotional/pastor/talking/meeting thing with Rob Bell (author of Velvet Elvis – which of course you’ve all read by now – and creator/innovator of the Nooma teaching DVD series).
We started by watching the latest Nooma, Breathe, which has just been released Stateside, dont think it’s out here yet. Then Rob spoke very brielfy on who he is, what he does, etc. Then it was thrown open to a question time.
There were several points I loved/was impacted by:
* The Hebrew mind is completely comfortable with tension, with the idea that two things can be true at the same time.
* Someone asked him about his teaching, and he said that he doesn’t teach anything that hasn’t already been brewing deep inside him for months or even years.
* “Some people simply aren’t going to be able to make the journey.”
Rob also shared something they did one Easter weekend, which I thought was an amazing idea. Instead of having a Good Friday service, they had a ‘Bad Friday’ service – a day of mourning, real sadness and rawness and emotion, which leaves the tension unresolved until the Easter Sunday service, when they blow the roof off with praise! How great an idea is that, how much more powerful would it make Easter feel to me or you?
by emma | Nov 10, 2006 | Everything Else
I am tired.
I was going to post now. But I have realised how tired I am. So now I’m not.
Tomorrow I shall return to Ireland for the first time in about 2 months. I’m curious as to how I will feel.
Goodnight.
by emma | Nov 7, 2006 | Everything Else
The report is done!
I’m listening to “Elusive” by Scott Matthews currently. I really love this song! I’m not sure why, just really nice acoustic song with great lyrics.
“She’s elusive and I’m awake,
You’re finally real, there’s nothing fake.
A mystery now to me and you,
Open my eyes and I’m next to you.
She said my destiny lies in the hands that set me free.”
I think I am beginning to understand mystery more (I know that is an oxymoron, but hopefully you know what I mean!). Why it is important and the likes.
“Like the sun at noonday, mysticism explains everything else by the blaze of its own victorious invisibility.”
GK Chesterton
by emma | Oct 24, 2006 | Everything Else
I haven’t posted in several days… how come? Hm.
I am sick at the minute. Fighting off a cold/flu-type thing… this morning I was sitting in lectures and actually thought I was going to cough my lungs up! Not a good feeling.
There is currently a week of 24/7 prayer going on here in Glasgow, a guy from Strathclyde Uni (I think!) organised it. I’m heading down for some time later on tonight. Hopefully be good to get back into a prayer room and just be with God there.
I may also go to Aberdeen this weekend. I haven’t decided yet.
So that is a recent-happenings update from me. How about you?
by emma | Oct 16, 2006 | Everything Else
I am all over the show today. As the saying goes.
by emma | Oct 10, 2006 | Everything Else
It’s funny how God works.
Take for example, my friend Jill. Went to see her at the weekend as you know. God connected us via a church with 20,000 members in a different continent.
Or my new friend Fiona. I met her at Jill’s church over the weekend. She’s in my Biblical Studies class and I never even knew it.
Or all my new friends I’m meeting here in Glasgow. Somehow find ways of being connected to most of them (nearly all the Northern Irish ones anyway) somehow.
Take Rachel. She was in Uganda in the summer with two of my friends.
Or Lucy. Who works on farms of people I know.
Or Anne. Who has been to camp with some of my closest friends from home.
Or David. Who lives about 4 mile from my home.
Or randomly bumping into a person from the church I grew up in, in a church here in Glasgow.
I like how God connects things! And I’m just one small person… does this happen to everyone?
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