Holy island blog 4

So what do I think? Where am I now? Am I on a boat at "sea with God"? Have I arrived? Or, yet another option, Is the destination simply the journey? Perhaps a better question is What have I learnt? But that sounds too "Latin" and not enough "Celtic" For me, as I've been reading about the Synod of Whitby And the Irish monks leaving Holy Island as a result. So let's call them areas of potential growth instead. Silence is one key area of growth - and one that'll contInure, I reckon. A lightness of holding onto possessions (in a positive sense) is another. Using imagination and allowing time to think and reflect another. IF I wanted a rule to live by, which I don't yet, these would be a good start, if combined with an urgency to share God's Word in a hurting World. I hope my blog is beginning to do this. I hope my preaching continues to do this. I hope my life will show this in action. And yet in the area of relationships, there is so much to be done. With people, I mean, leaving aside with God. My goal must be to do the above within a context of developing,pastoral gifts, finding time to be with folk. My impatience with current management speak And general wordiness seems to grow with a "Celtic" worldliness. I need to do what needs to be done, But to concentrate on what is truly important perhaps this will do for starters ... BIll the arrived of sorts pilgrim.