reflections.

At the time of writing I’m sitting in our lounge. Just me. Our Finnish friends arrived yesterday and two of them are still sleeping after a longer-than-expected trip. I’m quietly listening to glimpses of glory, the classic soul survivor album of 2002 – I can’t believe it was that long ago...

Lead us in this place
Lead us as we wait for you
Lead us in this place Lord
Lead us as we wait for you to come.

Lord we choose to worship you.
Give our all and worship you our Lord

God of all comfort
Faithful and true
Fall on your children in your mercy

This is powerful song. And as I quietly write the words as they bathe my lounge in peace, stirring the Lord’s presence I realise this is the place we are all meant to be. Not a place to visit.

Not striving. Not necessarily singing.

But being. Being with the Lord. In the same room. On the same chair. Comfortable. content. Where quiet, unfathomable tears can roll down cheeks at the smallest glimpse of the closeness of our God.

Below you’ll see the remaining days of the prayer community week thing, in reverse order so if you’re starting at the beginning of the week it’ll make sense! With easter weekend etc. I’ve not been able to get to the internet, so hope this is ok. Anyways, as I’m sitting here, the cry for the Lord to lead us is exactly where I’m at. The week was exciting, challenging and all those things that it should have been. It was both simple and difficult, but thankfully it was usually in the middle. It wasn’t a big ‘blow your socks off time with God’, we didn’t get completely changed, and we didn’t receive any crazy heavenly vision or big revolutionary revelation, and didn’t meet any angels – that we know of. It was insightful. It was constructive and very worthwhile. But most importantly, we had a great time praying together everyday, being with God, learning (hopefully from God) and dreaming (hopefully God’s dreams)…without knowing at all what God has in store for the future...

we are excited.