i made my beautiful wife val a cup of coffee in bed this morning as i do most mornings... she thanked me for it and i said it was a pleasure, and completely meant it... in fact as i was walking down the stairs i was thinking that it is a pleasure every single time... and how that should be normal - i really dig making my wife coffee or tea or a glass of [...]
so there is a new campaign in town and apart from some silliness like the whole main thrust of it being that if you don't like coffee you are okay, i thort (hi lisa) that it was very well written and even contained moments of humourous - my friend simon from the brothers streep wrote it and is a very funny guy who occasionally constructs pirate ships out of lego (possibly other substances too, but [...]
so as part of a pretty incredible weekend up in the kwazulu of natal i managed to get some coffee time with john ellis (formerly of tree63 and 'john ellis has hung up his cross and become a giant piece of plasticine' fame) to hear his version of where he is at and whether he still loves Jesus (he does, whoops i hope that wasn't one of the 'between you and me' moments we shared, [...]
so in exactly one week's time i will have been married to the beautiful Val for exactly one year - and what a year it's been! as i say often to people - 'marriage is highly recommended... to the right person!' and the 'to the right person' bit is the key - not cos i believe in any kind of God-brings-this-person-and-that-person-together necessarily or that i believe that there is only one 'the one' as opposed [...]
“i’m talking bout the man in the mirror – ooh yeah – i’m askin him to change his face... ooh wa... and no message, could have been, any clearer... if you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and change your face” [Michael Jackson, adapted by plastic surgeons anonymous] yes i know that’s not the line but it’s the one i always sing when i hear of that song – [...]
so this morning we had an Oikos gathering at Seattle coffee shop in Century City where all good Oikos gatherings happen - basically the idea is for an informal setting for people passionate about Jesus (yet maybe not so passionate about church or struggling with church in its current form and style) to have a space to talk openly about loving God and loving people and struggles with church and new exciting books or ideas [...]