Apparently one of the ministers who preached during the summer made some creative use of 'wordles' and other images (thank you, thta's a really good steop forward in our use of multimedia) so I thought I'd have a play with some of the liturgy we will be using on Sunday for our Covenant Service.  I made several shapes, some more creative and others more linear, and had a play with colour schemes.  Here are two of them that work with my blog colour scheme - enjoy!

The sabbatical clearly left me way too chilled out - yesterday I arrived at church with no watch, no phone and no diary.  So I ended up emailing myself a list of stuff to pick up and bring in today!!  It was a long day yesterday but a good one - just need to make sure I don't get sucked back onto the workaholic treadmill!

An email arrived this morning confirming that my paper has been accepted for the International Symposium on Theology, Spirituality and Cancer in Auckland, New Zealand next February.  It seems that I am the the only 'international' speaker among some very diverse New Zealanders and they have asked if I know what I'm doing by agreeing to go!

I am excited and a bit apprehensive because now not only do I have to write the thing, I have to organise getting there and back, having not a scooby what that means in terms of visas and things.  But it will be an adventure, a bit of carpe diem, a bit of living a little more spontenously and less cautiously, and that has to be good.