This week has been about old friends! Firstly, is the fact that one of the people I’m in training with is someone I’ve known for the best part of 18 years, but lost touch with 13 years ago!
Secondly, the weekend saw something of a reunion for Riga 1 Corps, with a motley crew of 9 adults and 4 children being together at the welcome meeting for the Prayer Warriors. There was something of nostalgic feeling and it made me realise just how much I miss those days. We’re looking forward to our hoped for trip over there sometime during the summer 2009.
Finally, tonight we had a visitor who wasn’t part of the family. Dom is a friend who goes right back to my days at the Anglican Communion Office and we haven’t seen him since a trip back from Latvia about 5 or 6 years ago. It was really good to sit down and share with him what’s been happening since then. It really didn’t feel as if there had been such a long gap between encounters and we just switched back into the old relationship.
On a completely different thing, it seems incredible that we’re already at the end of Wednesday. We’ve had 3 days of classes now and I’ve come to realise that there is something scary about college life. Time simply seems to vanish! It makes me realise that these 20 months that we will spend together are actually something incredibly valuable and I need to guard it carefully. In next to no time we’ll be out of this place and into our ministry.