Posts Tagged ‘All Souls’
Happy Christmas from the Church Elves
December 7, 2010Being the season of Advent, we Church Assistants have morphed into Elves for your entertainment! Click on the four links below…
With love from Hannah, Maw, Oscar, John and I.
Thanks John!
Exhaustion
November 30, 201012.5 hours without leaving the church building + M.E. = one crashed-out Lizzie.
Sigh.
A few reasons I find living in central London hard
November 30, 2010Finally, we have some snow falling. But the ground is wet and it’s not settling. Yet we have the freezing cold temperatures that go with snow. Not fair. My friends in both Northwood and Finchley have good, settling snow.
As I ventured out into Zone 4 on Sunday, I nearly cried.
There were leaves on the ground. Autumn Leaves that crunch underfoot. I enjoyed kicking them as I walked along the paths. In central London, the leaves that we did have here were swept up into plastic bags and taken away for being composted.
I saw frost on cars in the middle of the afternoon. I had seen that in the afternoon, but what I saw next I realised how much I missed; the grass on the verges of road was frozen solid and looked so pretty. I miss seeing that. And hearing the crunch underfoot.
I miss the countryside.
Catching up, God hears and answers our prayers
November 29, 2010So, I’m in the process of catching up with life, the universe and everything. I’m trying to keep things in some sort of logical order, which to me would mean some sort of vague chronology to them.
I was about to post about Sherif and backdate it to sometime last week, when I first heard. However news has just come in that he has arrived at Heathrow this very evening.
God is good.
For more information, go to http://www.releasesherif.com/ for more details…
Picture Postcards
October 18, 2010There’s recently been a postcard made of my place of work. I think they’re pretty cool, anyway.
Weddings
October 3, 2010Yesterday I worked my first All Souls Wedding.
Amongst us girls, that is, Hannah, Maw and I, we have had girly wedding conversations already (!).
One fairly big dilemma for me currently is where I would get married. I have always said that I want to get married in the Quire at Southwell Minster. But, if I met someone from All Souls, would we end up getting married there? It would mean easier travel arrangements for most people.
Surprisingly, yesterdays’ Wedding at All Souls didn’t persuade me. I still want to get married at Southwell. It’s beautiful. It’s the country. It’s the memories. It’s home.
Obviously, this is all very dependent on finding a man to go with the marriage package, and what his thoughts and feelings are on the subject. But, y’know, I’m just sayin’.
It’s all in a name
September 28, 2010Exodus 3:14-15
Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ “
At Breakfast Bible Study this week, we were looking at the fourth commandment, Exodus 20:7;
“You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.”
We discussed how we can challenge our secular colleges on this subject. Someone shared that their colleges often apologised after they had sworn in front of her, as a Christian, but she said how infrequently they would apologise when they used the name of our God in vain. Is that an appropriate conversation starter, to share our faith? Or would it just provoke a person more? especially if the individual was angry to start with – hence they had cursed!
Names are important. In the Old Testament times, the meaning of names played a huge part in a person’s identity. We read of people in the Bible whose names God changed, reflecting their identity and relationship with Him.
I was surprised by how few people knew the meaning of their own names.
I feel honored to know the meaning of my names; Kathleen, the Irish variant of Katherine, meaning ‘pure, virginal.’ And Elizabeth originates from Biblical Hebrew meaning ‘consecrated to God,’ or, ‘God is my oath.’
I love my flat mates name: Mawulolo, meaning ‘God is big.’ And her sister; Mawuse, meaning ‘God hears/God is loud.’ Both originating from Ghana.
If my opinion is worth anything, I think names are still important today.
N.B. Not wanting to keep playing an old record, but I do appreciate it when people take the time and effort to remember that I don’t like being referred to as ‘Liz.’
An Australian chap from church has been calling me Libby since I started. I haven’t corrected him to ‘Lizzie,’ because, well, I like it. Just probably doesn’t sound so cool alongside my family name.
