Kid Connections

Busy days ...

It's been a busy day with pleasant interludes!  It took almost 2 hours for me to drive in to Glasgow this morning!  I left home at 8.30am and hit a 6 mile tailback of traffic on the M77.  By the time I got in to town my left leg was is pain from constantly using the clutch and having to drive in 1st gear most of the way, and I had a thumping sore head.  Once I eventually got in to town and up to the west end I had a really good day - first our Thursday parent and toddler group followed by a lovely lunch with two of the mums and their darling babies, a bit of office chat, catching up with some other work and then driving back home just in time to pick up No 3 daughter from school.  I'm out tonight with two friends to see Fiddler on the Roof at the Motherwell Concert Hall & Theatre.  I'm not much of a theatre goer but I'm looking forward to it nonetheless.  Hubby is off today so has been spending time with the two little ones after a long day yesterday.

It's the school's October week next week so kids are off and I'm having some time off work to be with them.  There's lots of stuff needing to be done in the house but it's so miserable outside that I can't really be bothered!  I really want to be lying on the sofa with some nice nibbles, some decent coffee and either watching a good movie or reading one of the books I'm trying to get through just now.

I've been reading Moltmann's book In the End-The Beginning: The Life of Hope.  He shares a great deal of interesting stuff on childhood and children.  Part of the editorial review says, 'Debunking the classic images of Christian apocalyptic scenarios, the final struggle between God and Satan, Christ and the Antichrist—Armageddon—Moltmann instead shows that Christian expectation of the future has nothing to do with these but everything to do with new beginnings and a horizon of hope. Three parts explore three particular beginnings: birth (childhood and youth), rebirth (failures and defeats), and resurrection (death, judgment, afterlife).  This brief volume promises to be one of Moltmann’s most personal and compelling books.'  I'll share more if I get a chance but if you are in to theology books then it's well worth a read. 

Thank God it's Monday ...

... is the name of a book by Mark Greene, the director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. He previously worked in London and New York for a leading advertising agency before becoming lecturer and then vice-principal at the London Bible College (now London School of Theology).  He spearheads 'Imagine', a project aimed at recovering the central task of whole-life discipleship in our church communitiies, which is something that I am really passionate about.  This revised edition of his book is fun, fast and full of stories. It's a highly practical book looking at making the most of the time we spend at work. Examining our jobs, colleagues and bosses from God’s point of view. Expanding the ‘spiritual’ part of life from the weekend to the workplace and understanding that God is at work there through us, in us, and in those we work with. 

One reviewer says, Mark Greene provides a theology of work that is sadly lacking in many churches, pointing out that most people work with non-Christians and yet never see them as potential Christians. He also challenges the pressure put on those who are already over-worked to spend vast amounts of time outside work hours evangelizing when their real witness has to be with those with whom they spend so much time.

Amen.  We need to get with the programme I think!