Home safe and sound, or... Burning up on re-entry

We are home safe and sound from Praha, arriving back on Tuesday evening. Wednesday was a day off for me too, a bit of a blur of laidback slight productivity. As usual, I burned up on re-entry to work yesterday, with a repeat experience today at my second workplace... I am not good at stopping being on holiday.

Tonight we're off to Ashburnham for the weekend, going away with a group of 40 or so from our church. It should be a good weekend of building community. In some ways it comes a little soon after our recent return home, but we're dealing with it. Their web site talks of email access so I suppose there is a chance I'll be blogging over the weekend, but don't count on it. Probably I'll do some paper-blogging to be uploaded on Sunday night...

On a sad note, we heard today that someone we'd prayed for this week who had cancer, has passed away. We'd never met Jane, so of couse can't feel this situation in anything like the way her family and friends will. We have however experienced something like this ourselves, when a youth leader of ours died a few years back. It was a hard time. But God is there in our times of sorrow at least as much in times of joy. (It's just as much ― but we feel him more.) Simon and family, in this dark time we pray God will keep you warm in his embrace, and sow seeds of future peace.