This is my week - Thursday

As usual, Morning Prayer at 8.15, swiftly followed by 'Quiet Hour', which many use for prayer with a prayer partner. However, I'd done that bit yesterday, so instead this precious hour was used to catch up on some New Testament reading and Greek.

Down the road to Westminster College for a lecture on Mark's Gospel, then a seminar on 'The Messianic Secret' (Mark 8:27-9:1), during which, dear reader, I was apparently 'on fire'. An hour of unusually focussed Greekness took us up to lunchtime.

After lunch a bit more reading, a bit more dithering, a bit of tea drinking, and all to soon it was time to fetch the children over for College Communion.

Upon return to Ridley, I was on duty on the sound desk, so a swift soundcheck for the band, whilst trying to prevent Isaac abseiling from the chapel balcony (where he's not actually allowed to go.....I blame the parents). The band were fantastic - every time I descended from the balcony to listen to the sound mix they stopped playing. Hmmm....

With Isaac delivered to the creche, and Bethany dispatched to my study to do her homework I could now focus on the service. Which went brilliantly - well led, well structured, good choice of songs, inspiring message. Oh, and the sound was out of this world. Along with my humility. Somebody burst my bubble please.

Supper, the real reason for bringing the children over, was an interesting variation on the advertised Toad in the Hole, in which the part of the Hole was played by mashed potato.

A swift return to the chapel to pack away the sound kit, and then home at 8.15pm to biscuits, bathtime, a huge pile of ironing, and bed. A long day.