Long time no sea...

Well I have finally got back on here after rather too much time. Various things have got in the way - the back end of June and the beginning of July I was away; I helped out on a Holiday Bible Club (great fun); I went on holiday to France and stewarded at UCCF Forum. The time spent at home has been characterized by an awfully unreliable internet connection [Bad talktalk].


Anyway I am currently looking for a job in Leeds or somewhere nearer.  I am still training to officiate American football - I have now done 6 games, although the last one doesn't really count as it was not a Bafra game but an American high school game at RAF Menwith Hill.


I have recently got older but I am definitely not mid-twenties yet. I got a Spanish dictionary from my parents as I thought I would try to learn a little before the big North East Relay Reunion in Barcelona next summer (or somewhere in Spain anyway).


My little sister has just started uni at Sheffield Hallam so I have been down there a fair few time in the last two or three weeks, including a trip down on Sunday just to sort out all her computer stuff and set a wireless network for her.


Now I have moved back to Leeds it occurs to me that I am now ages away from a beach. The last four years, in Newcastle and Stockton, I have been less than half an hour from the sea. I didn't miss it much at first as we holidayed near the coast, but last weekend it dawned on me that I had missed Newcastle freshers' week for the first time, including the CU trip to the beach. The last time I went to the coast in England for the sake of it was when I was moving out of Stockton, and I took a slight diversion via Whitby for lunch.


Anywho, I have other things to do at the moment so I will bid you farewell, but one last thing - I had been drafting a post ages ago and got distracted by something after one paragraph. I have missed that train of thought bit I will wait for it to come around again. So here is that paragraph anyway:
"So, recently I was thinking - if marriage is meant to be such a good representation of the relationship between Christ and the church, then surely if we read a book about marriage we can probably take quite a lot to apply to our approach to church and the people in it. Obviously there are some limitations to the analogy."


Chao, JM

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