ARE THERE ANGELS IN CLAPHAM?

    Ok, i am desparately trying to post a youtube video on my blog, but alas my un technological brain has let me down again!  Can anyone help?  Would be very much appreciated!

I start a new job tomorrow and i'm really anxious tonight.  All those old demons creeping back...

It is such a good opportunity for me, a big chance to move forward and futher my career, but tonight i feel like a little girl the eve before her first day at school!  Which is so silly.

Just thought i would share!

Quote of the day:

Pray... but keep rowing to shore.

I have just returned from Verbier.  I know i should not complain as a trip to Verbier is wonderful in either case, but some snow would have been appreciated!

Although always when i go i am reminded by the amazingly beautiful mountains of gods power and glory.

Here is a quote a friend told me recently:

Don't tell God how big your problems are, tell your problems how big your God is!

I have finally figured out my techinical difficulties! It is because i have a Mac! Why oh why do most websites freak out at the mere suggestion of mac? Answers on a postcard please...

Right this blogging is getting the better of me… this is the fifth time I have tried to write this post… help! It keeps failing to show up so here I go again.

I watched the first two episodes of series two lost last week and it got me thinking about being lost. I suppose we have all got lost at some point in our lives. Lost in a shop whilst shopping with our parents (as children!) but as adults the feeling of being “lost� can go unrecognised. It seems to me that it is very easy to feel lost in this generation. In the TV show one of the major elements is that no one is looking for them but as a Christian we believe that God is looking for us all the time. So the parable of the Lost Sheep sprung to mind. It is such a well-known parable; I asked some of my non-churchy friends if they knew it and they all did. But has the powerful message of this parable been 'lost' in our society today? I'm not sure. In “why Jesus?� Nicky talks about a god shaped hole in each of us and our uncanny ability to try and fill it with everything but God. I read all the time in the press about things that people are trying to fill this hole with. Other religions, shopping, careers, money etc. So it seems that the message behind this parable is even more relevant today. We are lost, but unlike the TV show someone is looking for us, never forgetting us and always wanting us.

I have just read Jon March's entry about names and it got me thinking. I never really used to like my name, and used to dream at the back of Math's class about what i would change it to. So i shortned the Alexandra to Alexa and have had various shortened versions since, which i quite like. But it got me thinking about names and naming. I was named for my maternal grandmother. And my second name, Kate, was given to me by my natural mother, which my parents deceided to keep.

Well i have been trying to attach a pic and write as well for about six hours! It has finally worked... yippee!

The pic is of course U2, i thought i had better start this blog as i mean to go on... hence the boys! I went to see them last summer and have been talking about them ever since. Much to the dismay of my family and friends!