burning candles

You can tell by the time at the foot of this post how late I am to bed!

I think I must be somewhere in the mid-Atlantic sort of thing, the way my work is going! Because here I am, still working my Tuesday just now - despite the date now letting me know that Tuesday's long since gone!

It's been that sort of day again!

Busy and tiring. But another terrific day.

We had a Games Night for all the family this evening. A chance for brothers and sisters and Mums and Dads, and who knows who all else, to come along and get a feel of what the Club is like.

Seventeen teams and seventeen games with a two minute burst at each. Hot work and brilliant fun. Mind you, I got a fairly easy job: holding the rope for all the teams of skippers when they came. And, wow, were some of the girls pretty good!

It's another chance to meet and chat with folk whose paths I maybe wouldn't otherwise cross. Seventeen different teams worth of folk! The place was mobbed.

In fact, there were only meant to be sixteen different teams and games. Sixteen's a useful number in these sort of situations, being the cube of two. Very neat and tidy.

But sometimes the neatness just has to get ditched.

A bit like the time when there just wasn't room at the house where Jesus was. So some desperate guys came in through the roof.

Hardly neat and tidy any more. But there were bigger things at stake. People being healed. Lives being changed. Neatness doesn't seem to matter all that much when those sort of things are happening all the time.

At least, it shouldn't surely matter all that much.

I sometimes think it's like that with us here. The neatness all gets ditched. There are bigger issues.

Like giving people here who haven't ever really glimpsed what God's about, a feel of what his kingdom's meant to be.

A barrow-load of laughs. The family all together having fun. Exercise and creativity. Adventure and excitement. A time to remember for ever!

That's what last night's games were like. Some folk said they hadn't had such fun for many years. It was that sort of night.

And if it's felt to me as I've worked on here right through the night - if it's felt like today will somehow never end .. well, maybe that's because that is indeed what the kingdom of God is like.