Kat Across The Pond: November 2005

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

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Sunday, November 20, 2005

Party Animals

So I really really milked this birthday. After all, it's the big 3-o!!! I had a party in Crawley a couple of weeks back, with two other thirties, and with all the lovely people from church there and a few extra friends here and there.

Then on Thursday, the two lovely girlies Ellie and Helen (I love you gals!!) organised a paahteeh for me in the common room at college. Here's what happened there:

As you can see, we ban alcohol at the college. After all, we are all being trained to be good, upright citizens of the kingdom of heaven. Here, you can see me with a glass of Ribena.

Here you can see the three of us just about to start our weekly prayer and fasting time, which we do three days out of seven. We are held accountable for this by our respective fellowship group tutors.

Of course, we don't believe in the pleasures of the flesh, so this cake is only representative. It's made of cardboard (good imitation isn't it?). The money we saved will go to a worthwhile charity.

No comment.

Then on Friday, my parents arrived. We went out for a lovely meal on Friday night, and then I joined them for breakfast at the hotel on Saturday morning. Oh and on Saturday night we went out for another lovely meal, and I also joined them for a full cooked English breakfast this morning. I only had some soup for dinner tonight, because I just couldn't face any more food.

So now, back to the grindstone. Less of this cavorting and partying. Life, after all, is a serious affair. There'll be enough laughter in heaven.

Monday, November 14, 2005

Quiet Day

We had our college quiet day today. Have I mentioned that I'm an extrovert? A day's silence frightened me somewhat. However, I actually really enjoyed it, once I got into it. I didn't follow the theme of the day ("Listening from the Heart", ironically), but sort of did my own thing, as God laid on my heart. As a result, I decided I really have to start doing some sport again. I'm hoping to go swimming about twice a week. Very gently at first. I guess it's better than nothing, which is the state of affairs at the moment.

Oh and I am in the process of writing an essay - hence this update. Avoidance tactics. Back to St Paul and his teaching on the Holy Spirit. *sigh*

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Optical Illusion

If you stare at this picture for a little while (give it about a minute), you will see a giraffe...

I nicked this from Lee's website, it was just too good to keep to myself. So sorry Lee to steal your limelight, but hey, it's public domain :-)

Friday, November 04, 2005

Recent Movements

Lately, I have surprised myself with the discovery that I am starting to like college. I love the people here, we have some real fantastic Christians and leaders in this college. If this is the future of the Church of England, then I have hope.

I am concerned though, that this might mean that I am becoming anglicanised. ;-)

I sincerely hope that I will, first and foremost, stay a follower of Jesus who wants to share his amazing love with others. Anything else isn't important. And, actually, the trappings that come with that aren't important either. So, in other words, if I have to wear silly dresses and swing smoking baubles around in order to communicate to the world that Jesus loves them and died for them, and if they, because of that, take notice then great. If I discover that swinging incense and wearing silly dresses is NOT helpful or in fact hinders the above, then I will have to reconsider doing so. Seriously reconsider doing so, in fact.

I think we, as the worldwide church, rather than the CofE, have to remember the 'Jesus rule'. How would Jesus handle this? What would Jesus do? How would Jesus act? What would Jesus say? Even though WWJD is such a cliche, I think if we took it serious, we would see some serious results, too.

Oh and David H., who is the bursar here at college, was very much disappointed that I haven't mentioned him on my blog so far. David is the man who is in charge of everything here and works really hard to make our lives very enjoyable whilst on campus. We love you David! :-)

A lot of trivia about my life across the pond. Depending on where you are of course. Also, for everyone who's interested, a faithful account of one charismatic evangelical's journey into the Church of England priesthood (maybe!)

: Name: Kat; Location: Nottingham, Across the Pond, United Kingdom

I have been told I'm strange. Well let's face it - who wants to be normal? I am studying for ordination in the Church of England - that alone might give you an idea as to how *not* normal my life is. But hey what do you do when God calls you? Do you say "thanks very much but no thanks, I'd rather stick with my old safe life"? Well some might, but I didn't. So here I am, again at the beginning of a whole new life. Let's see where this "journey of faith" takes me.

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