Back in the swing!

So after a week off to refresh myself I'm back in town and back into the swing of life.

In the weeks running up to Easter I was house sitting for the Hurst family, some friends from church, and looking after their cat and dog. Please note the cat doesn't wee all over the work tops like Tom's cat, tho the dog did wee on the floor a few times...

But I had a good time there, and it was nice to have my own place for a couple of weeks. Made me really miss living away from home, and now I want to move out even more. The great thing as well was the week before Easter, which had the potential of being a very busy stressful week, I ended up having lots of time just to chill out with friends, which I haven't really done properly for ages, so thank you to everyone who came over, and who invited me out including Tom, Lucy, Gill, Andy, Steve, Tim, Christine, Kate, Tim H, Harriet, Ron and anyone else I forgot. It just made my week really great and helped keep the stress levels down so thankyou:)

So with Liz(my boss at the church) off to have her operation, the responsibility of leading worship for the big Easter Sunday Celebration fell to me! I was really really nervous about it, as any of you who spoke to me pre that day would know. But in the end I just gave it all to God and as always he did an awesome job. It was still a bit scary but I felt comfortable and confident in the job that he had given me to do. I think that its good to be a bit nervous about doin stuff, I always getting a bit nervous if I'm leading whether it be big or small. And I even get nervous when I do sound and techy stuff, whether its church stuff or anything. Maybe its me, but I find it helps me be more focussed, and not get too complacent about it.

So, also in that busy week before Easter I had my first 2 rehearsals with the new band I've just joined, the "Frank Soul Lovers". We are a function covers band playing a variety of Soul, Funk and Jazz. Its been really fun to play drums in a band again, but also hard work, cos I've had to do a shed load of sight reading. We've only had 2 rehearsals and our first gig is this Saturday, so I'll be reading the charts for most the songs. But if you want a good fun covers band for any weddings, anniversaries or birthdays then let me know.

So after that busy week, I was on my long awaited week off. It was a bit strange leaving the LCET office Tuesday lunchtime as all the LCET guys were just back to work after their holidays. After negotiating the Trains and London Underground(at one stage I managed to get off the tube to make a connection only to get back on again after finding out the station I had got off at had no connecting lines as I had expected) I arrived in a rather over cast Salisbury. This was a shame as while I was in London it had been sunny with cloudless blue sky. It was really great to see my friends Steve and Lianna, and catch up with all that they're doing. I pretty much spent the week just chilling out, which normally I'm not very good at, but bein away from Luton and work helped. I went and nosed round Salisbury a fair bit, went on some nice walks, had a look at the Cathedral (I'm starting to sound old) and on Saturday we went shopping in Southampton. It was really good to go to a different church where I have no responsibilites, something I should do more often. I take a lot more in, and feel more relaxed.

So now I'm back and swinging again. Next big thing is Townwide prayer meeting which I'm leading worship for, another thing I took of Liz when she went in for her operation. I'm probably more nervous about this than Easter as its gonna be a spontaneous spirit led evening, so there's no set plan. So if anyone reads this before then your prayers would be much appreciated, or I guess even after cos God is outiside of time.

Anyway, this post has become an essay, so will round it up there. Will post about some more up and coming stuff soon.