Lost in Transit...

So what has happened since the last blog? Nothing hugely random and crazy as yet, but hopefully that will change tonight as there's a bit of a party happening here in a couple of hours. A guy from my cell is leaving for Bristol so we're throwing him a party. Well I didn't realise it'd be a party, I thought it would be a few people round for a pivo, but my cell co leader has invited most of the church to my not so big house in Bracknell, so it looks like it's going to be that way now. Parties are interesting things, some go really well, some go flat very quickly and others go completely crazy, it would be funny to see lots of church folk go crazy but the carpet has just been cleaned.......hmmmm i feel old.

So the fact that I'm still here means I haven't chucked in everything and left as i threatened to in my last post, I've thought about it some more and realised that chucking in everything and leaving would actually take several months to execute. I reckon as time goes on it will get harder to do this, but hey. It's wierd a lot of my friends are starting to put roots down, buy houses, get into management jobs and generally become suburbanised. The thought that I might never leave this place does kinda freak me out a bit, it gives me impetus to do something about it! When I was in Prague I met a guy who had built a successful furniture business after finishing university in england, yet felt he wasn't being challenged so shut up shop and moved to Prague, is living off his savings and will soon be living off faith. As he was telling me this part of me was thinking "my gosh he had it made, nice cars, lots of money was he out of his mind?", but as he went on i realised that he had gained so much more and that I was in a lot of comfort zones. I couldn't help but be inspiried and challenged.

well i need to go throw a party,

peace,

g.

I started a blog for the mission that I was on earlier this summer, but have had requests to keep going...so here goes

It's been about 3 weeks now since I got back from a mamouth journey accross eastern europe with 24-7 prayer. I saw a lot of countries, saw God do some cool stuff, met some awesome people and as well as some bizarre people, ate some wierd food and managed to keep the team more or less together during the mission. By the end I was tired but could have gone on from there for quite some time, but a job and a life back in england was beckoning so I got on the plane home. It would be quite exciting though just to drop everything and go...I would like to do it at least once in my life, one day...Anyway as that day hasn't come yet i went and got back into the swing of being a musician, an uncle, a consultant and a church goer.

So any memorable moments from the past few weeks?

1) playing one last gig with my band before our 2 month break, it was a great evening and had random conversation with chinese guy wanting to use our music in TV shows in the far east...

2) met up with some of the guys from the mission, had some indian food, went round london, discussed the random american we met in prague who was obsessed with a wierd christian doctrine, drank some pivo (beer), had many laughs and went to a wicked church in marylebone. I also booked a flight to Texas for this October to visit Jay and Jeff from the trip.

3) finally got copies of my band's new album, i was thrilled when my 3 year old neice told me she liked it.

4) one of my best mates got married in London, was an awesome wedding and generallly a great day. I also watched him get annhialiated with paintballs on his stag day...very funny.

5) Got involved in writing a worship song with some friends and recorded it, realised that it's very difficult to write christian music that didn't sound christian.


Plans for this week? Nothing that exciting so far....perhaps i should quit my job, jump on a plane and go somewhere.....