Thinking

Ariel

My friend Kieth has a song on soundclick. Like all his stuff it's fab and it really is about time he did a proper album.

Yey

Today I sold my first photo (not to a friend). I would show you but someone bought it! It's sad, but I'm very excited.

Internal mission

There's a fantastic discussion on Pete Rollins blog here. Pete's blog is hard going for the beginner, but worth the many references to the Dictionary of Philosophy!

I particularly identify with this from the comments:

I am big into re-discovering the gospel as evangelising me as much as other people, inviting me into a transformed mode of being. By giving up the desire to reach the ‘other’ with what ‘I’ possess I want to explore metanoia as something for us all. Instead of trying to ‘reach’ others one simply creates spaces for the Event of faith to be born in all of us. Giving up mission can become the most effect space for mission to take place.

[Metanoia is repentance or changing one's mind]

Uncertainty

A friend of ours recently said that the real 'cost' of her following Jesus was that she had to live with uncertainty.

As time passes, I reckon that uncertainty is not only unavoidable if you are to follow Christ, but also it's often the strongest position to take.