http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/
Nothing to see here..... move along now.......
http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/
Change your links to
http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/
visit me...take my count up...inflate my ego....
http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Last posting on this blog
I have now moved and you can find me on....
http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/
It is not yet complete but it is fit to move into....... it will be updated and changed over this week...
http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/
It is not yet complete but it is fit to move into....... it will be updated and changed over this week...
I'm leaving!

This will be the site: http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/ it is still being constructed- so it is not complete. I like it- a friend in Seattle, an all round good egg, is completing it...
It will be just like moving into a new house- getting used to it, working out what works and eventually being proud of a functioning space. Hmmm, so nothing like a manse then, which is rarely new, often doesn't function and 'OK that is fit for the tip and we were going to tip it, but we wondered whether you want it' (mayhaps a smidgen of irony there.... just a smidgen...).

While I'm at it, isn't a blog the ultimate vanity project, like the 18th century gentleman's habit of wearing powdered wigs? We laugh at powdered wigs now, but then...... they were just as trendy and upper class as insulting someone of a different ethnicity is now (upper class people in GB don't do that anymore though do they.....do they.....hmmmm...why can't they all be as upstanding as Prince Harry?).
No, no vanity here in my blog. That is 'my' blog..... my blog... my blog .... MY BLOG...... I am ever so 'umble.....
check it out http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/
but I'm not boasting about http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/
No you won't catch me boasting (by the way it is http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/ did I mention it?).
Monday, 12 January 2009
Quote of the Day
“Nothing makes people in the church more angry than grace. It’s ironic: we stumble into a party we weren’t invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. Then a strange phenomenon occurs: as soon as we are included in the party because of Jesus’ irresponsible love, we decide to make grace ‘more responsible’ by becoming self-appointed Kingdom Monitors, guarding the kingdom of God, keeping the riffraff out (which as I understand it, are who the kingdom of God is supposed to include.)”
- Michael Yaconelli in Messy Spirituality
HT:http://www.nakedpastor.com/
Church
Did it!
With thanks to a small floppy earred quadruped of unusual hue for the advice! (HT:http://raspberry_rabbit.blogspot.com/)
Church
For some reason I can't wotk out how to upload videos, so you will have to click on the link.....
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc80G6Yzu04
Go on....you know you want to and it is only 2:30 of your time.
It could be any church- any issue...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc80G6Yzu04
Go on....you know you want to and it is only 2:30 of your time.
It could be any church- any issue...

This is not me, but why o why o why o why o why? Just these last few days I have witnessed some unseemly spats ( did you like the 19th century english just there?) on an e-group I am part of (of Methodist ministers of all people) and on one or 2 websites that I like.

I know why...people get upset, angry, furious even. I do and I do often. It is so easy to post first and ask questions later. I wonder if part of it is the nature of being a Christian/being in full time ministry?
Even my postmodern, casual, ironic, slacker self wants someone to like me/affirm me as a success or at least better than someone else. I want to be 'right'. I get angry with people who I think are 'wrong'.
It is hard to get in touch with your own insignificance, acknowledge it even; especially as a 'professional Christian'. This is not to wallow in middle-class guilt (looking at my last few cd purchases, I do seem to be like that); you can't lose your perspective that although you screw up big time, you are valued and unique.
But as a 'professional Christian' I think that it is essential to know that although you are gifted and have a calling, you have to know that you are at the same time not the centre of the universe, not the new messiah, not annointed beyond flaws, not indispensible.
I came across this a day or so back. I first came across it during my sabbatical. It reminded me of important stuff. It is from Romero. I think I ought to print it out. I could mail it to a few friends....which would really make me a self-righteous prig that most right thinking people would want to deck. A lot. No best to think on it myself........
(HT: http://wesroberts.typepad.com/)
A Future Not Our Own...
It helps, now and then, to step back
and take the long view.
The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,
it is beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of
the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.
Nothing we do is complete,
which is another way of saying
that the kingdom always lies beyond us.
No statement says all that could be said.
No prayer fully expresses our faith.
No confession brings perfection.
No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
No program accomplishes the church's mission.
No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about:
We plant seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted,
knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces effects beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything
and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something,
and to do it very well.
It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way,
an opportunity for God's grace to enter and do the rest.
We may never see the end results,
but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders,ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
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- Alison Krauss/Robert Plant- Raising Sand
- Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
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- Dan Le Sac V Scroobius Pip- Angles
- Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes
- Flight of the Conchords
- My own compilation: Songs of morbid introspection Volume 2
- Portishead: Third
- Radiohead: OK Computer
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- Graham
- I exist in time and space most of the time. Married to Victoria, 2 children.