Big year - this year

so this last week 28th Dec - 2nd Jan I was helping to host a contemporary Labyrinth in Liverpool Cathedral. It was such a privilege to be there especially to be able to walk it for myself on the 1st day of the year. Reflection is not something I sit and do as I am an activist and so struggle with the sitting down thing, but I do reflect on the go! So using the labyrinth this week was a good bit of discipline for me and I hadn't switched the music on otherwise I would not have been able to focus.

This year is a big year for me as long as the next 6 months go ok and the Bishop thinks I ought to get ordained! This has been a long journey - at least 15 years but a much needed long journey as I would not have been ready 15 years ago - much too arrogant and judgmental!

this morning in church we were thinking about gifts and journeys - it being Epiphany! and I was encouraging people to think about the gifts they have and to work on them throughout the coming year. I believe we all have gifts and I believe that we can find new gifts throughout our lives and that we need to cultivate and develop them but for the glory of God and not ourselves.

so here is to the new year, to new challenges and to new ministry...