The Long Walk Home

The Office Freelove Freeway Medley

Sitting with my housemate tonight revisiting this genius medley. Just look at Gareth’s face…

Embrace the madness and the fun.
Unclench yourself has hit the blogging sphere.
Unclench

One reader described it as: “The breath of fresh air the blogging world needs, I’m going to read it everyday.”

For those of you who, like me, forget a lot of things in this life.

“You must believe in the yes that comes back when you ask, ‘Do you love me?’. You must choose this yes even when you do not experience it.
You feel overwhelmed by distractions, fantasies, the disturbing desire to throw yourself into the world of pleasure. But you know already that you will not find there an answer to your deepest question. Nor does the answer lie in rehashing old events, or in guilt or shame. All of that makes you dissipate yourself and leave the rock on which your house is built.
You have to trust the place that is solid, the place where you can say yes to God’s love even when you do not feel it. Right now you feel nothing but emptiness and the lack of strength to choose. But keep saying, ‘God loves me and God’s love is enough’. You have to choose the solid place over and over again and return to it after every failure.”
(Henri Nouwen- The Inner Voice of Love)

And that, my friends, is theology of the deepest kind. Choosing to believe in reality and fighting for that reality in our minds and hearts.

OK so I have many vaguely serious things to blog tomorrow, but as it is bedtime here’s a few thoughts until then.

Can someone explain the logic of the Old Lady swallowing the horse to catch the dog? Up until then the rhyme depends on an abnormally large throat and stomach but the sequence makes sense. Spiders catch flies, birds eat spiders, cats chase birds and dogs chase cats. Fine. But has there been a long standing feud between horses and dogs that I have been previously unaware of?

Also, who invented chewing gum, and were they mad or a genius? Charging money for something that loses it’s taste within three chews, has no nutritional value, no purpose in being chewed and (to turn into a old grannie for a moment) is fairly indestructable when it comes to covering pavements. Why? I’m confused.

Driving home after the prayer meeting:
Jess- Did you notice?
Kath- Yeah
Jess- His flies were so undone.
Kath- I KNOW, it was like an eclipse, I tried not to look directly at it.
Jess and Kath- uncontrollable laughter.

We spent an evening trying not to look at each other and laugh. It was taxing, but we managed it. Well done us.