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Five Months Later...

Thought I ought to post on here again, as I was being reminded by a couple of online buddies that I havn't actually passed through these parts for coming on half a year! Anyway, 2005 - a new year, with new possibilities.

2004 was a bit tough - but the cheesy tagline for 'Return of the King' said 'There can be no triumph without loss. No victory without suffering. No freedom without sacrifice.' - maybe that's overexaggerating a bit but anyway, in the past twelve months I cut most of the ties with my old church, then lost a girlfriend, started leading the AV Team, wrote lots of computer programs, changed flatmates, got involved in the kid's mission, recorded a few songs (although clearly not enough) and started to try and sort out - with the guys I've now got around me - the issues that I've struggled with for a while - recognising who I am in Christ, in my faith, and in my relationships.

Certainly, this year just gone has been quite frustrating. If 2003 woke me up to the realisation that actually there was more to life than the 9-to-5, have fun, 'eat, drink and be merry 'cos tommorrow we die' approach of the world - a beauty and passion far beyond anything that you ever found on TV; then 2004 was the journey to see that it wouldn't come on the cheap. That I had to fix my eyes on what I do know (not get distracted wondering about the things that I don't!), count the cost, decide that it was something worth fighting for and start putting in the effort to find it in all it's fullness!

To be completely honest, I havn't found an answer that I'm happy with yet - we talk of 'El Shaddai' (The 'All Sufficient One') and that's my only resolution for 2005 so far. Yes, 'The road is long, with many a winding turn' but join me as I 'seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness' and lets follow where His narrow path leads...

posted by RichB @ Tuesday, January 11, 2005