I have given up buying and selling on
ebay (click the link - it's funnay) for lent. Fairly easy so far, sure to get harder in a couple of days now that I've got my spending money for the month.
Alison has given up caffeine, which means no coffee or chocolate. I'm not sure I could do that, especially as I'm sleeping terribly at the moment, and need all the help I can get at the moment.
I've also given up drinking, for the second time in my life. Not one of those "Oh, I'm never drinking again" things that happen when you're brutally hungover, though I was brutally hungover when I decided to quit. I got hideously drunk last time I was in London, lost an hour or so of the evening (how did I get back to my hotel?), was sick, and woke up feeling ill as anything. So, I've given up again. This might be permanent. We'll see. I've kinda just got fed up of drinking... I don't think it makes me any funnier, and I get all loud and sweary and rude... It doesn't really help much. So, that's off the agenda for now. I'm not averse to going out for drinks with anyone who cares to go out sometime, but I'll be on the J2O's.
In other news...
I led worship at our cell group the other night. It's the first time I've done it in forever. I've not even played my guitar since we moved house and that was 6 months ago. It was good to do it again. I'd not forgotten how to play, so that was a good start! It was weird doing it again after so long, but it kinda felt right, like it's something I'm maybe meant to do. It felt... comfortable, in a way, and familiar, and I wasn't nervous about singing in front of a room of people or about how I was playing. It was like it was me and God, and the other people were a bit peripheral, sort of, though obviously they're pretty integral to it being actual worship
leading. It was good, because I've been feeling really distant from God for I don't know how long, and like I'm not doing anything for him, and that while I believe, it doesn't really mean anything for how I live. It's hardly a huge step towards sorting stuff out, but it was good to at least feel like I was in the same room as God, doing something for him.
So, I'd quite like to do that again. Partly because it made me feel close to God, and partly because I'd like to actually be doing something for him again.
Right. That's enough for now. Catch you later.
