It's a small world (but thankfully not a Disney one)!

OK, well I was at church this morning (nothing uncommon about that) and had just finished up helping with the kids work (well clearing up and doing the usual chase round to find various people) when, totally out of the blue, I'm met by someone who works in the previous school I teach at. We didn't overlap in out teaching (I left at the end of one year, and he started the next), but with various supply and other days in, he was able to recognise me at church. He'd been a few times before, but was looking for one to really call a home church.

Anyway, it's made me wonder about whether it really is a small world. Many say that the Christian world (especially in the UK) is small, and that, within reason, you are likely to bump into other Christians you know more frequently at Christian events. However, is that true of most groupings of people.

As a teacher, at the end of term, for some reason teachers all tend to end up in the same series of pubs/bars. (Possibly to avoid the kids!)

So, do we all live in a small world, despite all the travel that is open to us, and if so, do we do it purposefully at some level as it's a comfort zone things.

Just a thought.


Chris

 

Lost Weekend Lamentations!

OK, it's Saturday morning, and I'm sitting here thinking to myself that the weekends just seem to disappear. Now I appreciate that it's not even 10am yet, but I know that before I know it, Saturday will be all but gone, I'll have probably played tennis for a few hours (given that it's dry, if somewhat windy, which will make for an interesting game!) and will come home and watch the rugby, recorded while I'm playing. And that will be half the weekend gone.

I suppose that it's better than just doing nothing, and I suppose that some people will do far less than I will be, but part of me thinks that I should spend more time doing 'useful stuff'.

It's left me thinking about whether other people get more out of their weekends than I do. Possibly it's part of the human condition, that we al think that we're wasting time, or maybe it's just me thinking that. Or should I just work on the basis that the weekend is for recharging, and that 'wasting' it isn't such a bad thing.

So, there you go, my first proper rumination. Not much of one really, but something that I do ponder about from time to time.

Well, this is my first entry, and it's going to be pretty boring, but then it's more to get the blog up and running.

I'll be interested to see how many people look at this blog (once it's up and running properly).

I suppose like most blogs, it's going to be a bit of a diary of my thoughts. However as a school teacher, work is something that I'm not really going to be able to talk about as it's not going to be professional to do so. (So no questions about that if you ever have any).

So, I'm going to get the rest of this set up, and then post something else later on.