The last couple of weeks have gone by in a blur. First there was an intensive week teaching a graduate course in Bristol - deeply fulfilling, because most of this year's cohort of first year UK Statistics PhDs were attending, but draining, because I started the week tired. Then a research workshop at Warwick, combined with all sorts of crazy admin stuff.
So no blog last weekend. Sorry!
This weekend we finished off the sermon series on Nehemiah, with the lovely story of chapter 8 (the people, weeping because they felt so inadequate; the teachers, telling them not to weep on such a celebration day but to have a party because "the joy of the Lord is your strength" - and to send food to those who had none). This series has worked so well, both intellectually and on an emotional level too. Why? I think, because it is a story, and people work well with stories. Because it is a story about a struggle, and that's where we are. Because it tells us that when we join together with God we can accomplish so much more than we ever felt to be possible before, and we sense this is a thought we are going to need to keep clear in our minds over the next months and years ...
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