Ahhh I love it there! I typically sit across from St Columba but I’ll have to keep an eye out for this window next time.

I’ve just started a series on Revelation at my church and, unsurprisingly, I’m spotting imagery from it EVERYWHERE now. This is gorgeous. Many blessings on your stay. Which monastery are you at?

The waiting changes us, schools us, teaches us to know God.

– Maria Boulding, ‘The Coming of God’

5/5

Faith can demand long, patient waiting, when nothing seems to be happening, and this is just as necessary to growth

4/5

Some things cannot be skimped or hurried; we have to let them take the time they need

3/5

Advent is the consecration of waiting in our lives

2/5

So. Let me say – before the movie starts – that I have always loved Act 1 of Wicked. And it was also the case that I loved the first movie. And. I have always felt that Wicked Act 2 doesn’t just fall short, it falls apart. And I hope this will not be the case here.

Oh! And also! The validity of my marriage isn’t be challenged any time soon, which was good news I was NOT expecting this week! And you’d best believe I am grateful for that!

7/7

On this, his feast day, that’s an important reminder of what we are about.

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I’m grateful for the witness of Martin of Tours who, when given the opportunity to have the state enact the justice of the church (a church that was slowly becoming nothing more than the empire at prayer), Martin said ‘No. The church’s problems are spiritual and so its remedies should be spiritual.’

It’s also the case that, at annual convention, I get to see friends that I maybe don’t get to see all that often otherwise, and I am *always* grateful for that. Especially for friends (and professors?!) from seminary who are now in this diocese I call home!

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But.

3/7

It’s common for clergy to complain a bit about having to attend our annual diocesan convention (or synod, for those of you back home), and believe you me I haven’t always loved three days of elections and budget talk and resolutions.

2/7

THE SOUTH OF WHAT

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

It’s not that phenylephrine is less effective or that it works better for some people over others. IT DOES NOT WORK. AT ALL.