After months of internet deprivation I am finally able to journal some of my reflections on the last few months with the benefit of hindsight. At last this week I finally got my broadband connected again and rejoined the civilised world.
Since June 2008 I've completed an MA course, changed job, left my church, helped found a new one, moved home twice, and realised my friends now believe I've become a recluse (or just ignorant) due to my abject failure to keep in touch with any of them .
It's been an adventure, and revealed some things about myself that have been startling, and not always welcome discoveries. While fully aware that many of the things on my list of recent activities would on their own score fairly highly in a stress questionnaire, the level of my addiction to security has genuinely taken me by surprise.
As someone who prides herself on her levels of self-awareness this has been an uncomfortable discovery, and as I inevitably get around to viewing everything around me through the lens of my faith and spirituality, it has prompted some re-evaluation of the authenticity of my professed beliefs.
This blog will be, at least partly, in hindsight, and hopefully without giving way to terminal introspection I hope to share some of my thoughts, and exchange ideas with others.
Since June 2008 I've completed an MA course, changed job, left my church, helped found a new one, moved home twice, and realised my friends now believe I've become a recluse (or just ignorant) due to my abject failure to keep in touch with any of them .
It's been an adventure, and revealed some things about myself that have been startling, and not always welcome discoveries. While fully aware that many of the things on my list of recent activities would on their own score fairly highly in a stress questionnaire, the level of my addiction to security has genuinely taken me by surprise.
As someone who prides herself on her levels of self-awareness this has been an uncomfortable discovery, and as I inevitably get around to viewing everything around me through the lens of my faith and spirituality, it has prompted some re-evaluation of the authenticity of my professed beliefs.
This blog will be, at least partly, in hindsight, and hopefully without giving way to terminal introspection I hope to share some of my thoughts, and exchange ideas with others.
