re-joining city massive after time in the other place (aka the country - west side).   SPACE 09 with sixty high energy people with SWEET theme for everything.  all fine for us, til last evening Charlie and Chocolate Factory fancy dress.  not fine for AA car rescue man arriving at remote campsite in pitch dark Somerset hills greeted by convincing short stocky oompa loompa with orange face and green hair.  AA man ashen face, not amused, rooted in van, all dialogue conducted with oompa loompa via smallest window wind-down.

Followed by further week in the other place - east side.  Holy Trinity Brompton Focus teaching holiday.  Davo (HTSC Kids worker, proud married man, from People's Republic of Macclesfield) also on site - part of time - when not running around whole of Suffolk coastline.  Macc man arrives back breathless one morning with report of giant tree growing in the middle of the sea; decide he has had one Pontins kipper too many.  he says blessed are those who have not seen but still believe.

all good, but very happy to be back in HTSC family on Sunday.  friends and summer visitors and Living G in time and space together, Holy Spirit moving.  feel thankful, know it's right, know there is something wonderful here, supernatural.   

want to stay close to church family through summer.  to pray for bros and sisters. many scattered around the world visiting or chilling,  look out for Jesus where they are, find him in people you meet, share him.

pray too for ones left at home.  when lawyering, holiday season often bit of a nightmare.  holidays only good if you are on one! not good if covering for ones on beach.  know that this is case for some of HTSC family.

verse for both home and away family:

I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fulness of God. (Philippians 3.17-19) 

AA man rooted in van, Davo's tree rooted in the sea.  thank you for rooting me in Living J;  bring your powerful love Living J  to your family holding the fort at work, to your family on their hols.  AMEN