"Dashing through the snow..."

although NOT in a one-horse open sleigh, as the song might suggest. Sorry for the title: I know it's still a good while til Christmas (tho I spose Advent does start soon so soon it will be allowable to start singing Christmas songs) but it just had to be done.

Let me explain the relevance of this phrase...
1) It snowed today,
2) It was snowing while I was dashing up to Woodies for the meal tonight...hence giving me a flash of inspiration for this, my next blog post. :-)

After a fairly long day (as per usual at the moment. - Note to self, protein gels are always more complicated and take longer to run than you think they're going to), I finally left the lab 5.15 ish, dashed back to our house, then after a brief bung of things into a smaller handbag, a change of clothes and a quick check on my blog I dashed out again - in the snow (hence post title). There was a meal at 6 for all those involved in the worship team at Woodies, whether musically, or with pa (scary things!) or words etc. Was really nice actually. I knew more people than I thought I was going to, what with some of the people I know best involved in worship not being there tonight, and not that already knowing people is really what's important at something like that...It went far too fast though ! I met a few new people, and chatted more to a couple of other people I know a little, or have seen around but never really spoken to, but not to as many as I would have liked. They'll have to have another such meal again. Was also quite exciting when Dave got us all to stand up in turn and say what we played/wanted to get involved in helping with etc. There's such a range of giftings in the church. (Although I was slightly embarrassed when it was my turn and I had to say I played Keys, guitar, bass AND I sang !)

But Dave M (pastor at Woodies central for those who don't go to Woodies) gave us a few things to chew over (again, metaphorically, not actually to chew on, in fact the curry didn't really require much chewing...but anyway, back to the point again...). I hadn't really thought about the fact that as Musicians we're artists in a way, and are creative people who can have quite sensitive personalities. That's one of those things you hear, but I never quite realised it might apply to me before. Also, when he spoke about us doing church on so many levels ('big church and small church and in-between church') and that we're each going to have different levels which we fit best to. I'd never really thought in that way before...I've always just thought that-well, I've been asked to do this, but I'm not very good at doing it, and don't feel very confident here, how do I change that, rather than trying to think - actually, where do I feel most able to contribute to church life and on what level do I think I can serve best. Not that that means of course that there aren't going to be times when God will challenge me to move into a place where I don't necessarily feel comfortable...maybe some of you will know what I mean.

Anyway, mammoth post again (you'll come to realise I'm good at that). So, well done for making it this far, but in case you've forgotten what I've been trying to say, I shall attempt to summarise:
Summary= 1) We had exciting snow today, 2) this evening I went to an exciting meal for worship team people at Woodies and got me thinking about various things, 3) I cannot write concisely and 4) I've just written my first vaguely serious post !!

I shall now go and attempt to do something productive before bed...