Got That Wednesday Feeling!

Ah Wednesday! The top of the working week hill - it's all down hill from here on in to the weekend and the respite from the demands of the job.

It's all those and until just before Christmas it was just that for me too. About a week, maybe two before Christmas I noticed that a local church was having a Eucharist service on a Wednesday lunchtime. And, because I was wrestling with a resurgent belief I eventually screwed up the courage to go in rather than vacillate outside trying to decide if I really was just pandering to some sort of self delusion. SO in I went and took part in a communion service for the first time in 30 years and found I managed to draw strength from that to actually face the rest of the week.

Actually I don't just face the rest of the week - I actually enjoy the rest of the week and I feel like I have been re-invigorated just because I spend 30 - 40 minutes quiet listening to the spirit within me being nurtured.

It is quite pleasing to see that the number of people who attend on a lunchtime is actually growing as well - you never know we might have to move out from the side chapel into the main body of the church if we are really lucky!

Maybe you could use some of that Wednesday feeling?

Some People!

“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way” - C S Lewis

We all make mistakes

Tuesday - often referred to as the worst day of the week by me is over but not without incident I would say! However the incident that happened would have been enough to get me really stressed out 12 months ago. But all things being equal I managed not to panic aor get totally stressed out about this, afterwards I began to wonder why.

Was it because it was not important? - No it definitely was and caused a few minutes disruption. Was it because I did not care? - No I care about my work and my professionlism in my work.

No in the end I decided that it was because I realised the error, acted quickly to solve it and most of all was professional enough to admit it was my fault. I am not being humble here I am just able to admit to myself that I am human, I do make mistakes and I have the strength to admit my mistakes and rectify them.

Most of all it seems to me that this inner strength comes to me from the faith I have been discovering over the last few months, which because it is faith in someone who was also human and knew what it is to be human and can see that we make human mistakes and yet can still forgive us when we do make a mistake then I personally feel more a peace with myself because I know that I am no longer alone

So if you make a mistake, be brave, admit it, learn from it so that you don't make the same mistake twice.

My biggest mistake was perhaps not realising this thirty years ago when I lost my way with my faith and beliefs, I am doing what I can to correct that too!