Contemplating...

...the fact that it seems very wrong that after getting back from a week away on Sunday night, this is the first opportunity so far I have had to sit down, catch up on email, chill out with some fresh coffee and even unpack my suitcase (filled with thankfully clean laundry, due to a weekend spent at home sick). Hmmmm......seems a sad thing to me that weekly routine can get so filled up that it takes time away (thousands of miles away sometimes) to take stock, think, listen, reflect.

I think that is another thing I do appreciate about the gift of travel and time, a forced long coach journey or flight gives me time to think a little, pray quietly and just converse a bit with God knowing that he always listens - trying to get that back into my daily life here again is more of a struggle. But I am trying even if it means using my commute in to listen to some worship songs rather than my usual whilst praying for the day ahead.

It's easy to get really good at juggling lots of balls, planning your diary whilst taking a shower, making a grocery list whilst on the phone and then without knowing it you are slotting in god time in between the mess of everything else. I know that I follow a jealous God and I want his help to claim back some of the lost time in my life and show me how to worship him in all of it and not just the dregs.