Catch Up

Well my blogs have been very lacking over the last for weeks and the holiday period but I haven't really been in the mood to write a blog.

Well Christmas was good we spent Christmas morning with my family and then went on to spend Christmas lunch with my boyfriends family. It was really nice as my boyfriend went off up the pub with his dad and I remained at home with his mum helping to prepare the lunch and I really enjoyed just spending time with her enjoying each others company with a glass of wine whilst preparing the veg.

We then spent an evening with my mum and we had a Sunday dinner before Christmas with my dad so we managed to share ourselves around with everyone.

Then for new year we went to Dublin. It was a really nice break, we did the sites and went to the cathedral for a service on the Sunday ( I even managed to drag my boyfriend which was nice) we hopped on a sight seeing bus one day and went to the Guiness factory another. That day we ended up staying out all day, after the first pint of Guiness at the factory I realised that I quite like Guiness. We enjoyed some traditional Irish food and then went to a pub and stayed out the rest of the day/night on the Guniess. My boyfriend felt a bit worse for wear the following day though!

Coming back to work, I have found out that I got the training job that I applied for so I'm really excited for that, I am just waiting for my start date to be confirmed on that so I will keep you updated when I know for def myself.

At the mo on the God front I'm on and off, lately I haven't been making the effort to go to church and not really making a really point of praying or reading the bible. I know God doesn't want me to be doing these things for the sake of it, but why don't I want to at the minute? I am not doubting my faith, I just cant motivate myself at the moment to make the effort which is really poor on my part. I have stepped down from Alpha this year as I feel I have been involved for 4 years and would like to concentrate my efforts in to Hope08 instead. I felt a bit guilty to start with like I was letting the rest of the team down but this turned out to be a good thing. My new job will mean that I will be travelling around alot more and will not be able to confirm from one week to the next whether I will be home on Wednesdays to be available to lead one of the Alpha groups. So God was working in that situation I believe.

I also saw the lady again recently who quit the last course ( I mention this in previous blogs, that I felt to blame for her quitting) she was really pleased to see me and gave me big hugs and even said she was disappointed that I wasn't going to lead next Alpha as she felt I had lead well and really made an impact on her. That was nice.

Hope08 has got off to a bad start. We've only had one planning meeting in December and nothing since. We are supposed to have kicked it all off in January but seeing as no meeting has taken place, nothing is planned and therefore nothing is happening. Very annoying and disappointing. So just waiting to see what happens about this. My friend says they have the same problem at their church so its not just my church. It seems a shame that alot of churches have got behind this campaign but no not yet done anything.