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So last night i came home. A little bit of a nightmare getting on the train! I planned to leave to catch the 5:06 train, at about 4:35, takes about 15-20 mins to get there and i needed a ticket! All ready, i look at the time… 4:50, no! So i quickly ran home got my bag and ran most of the way to the station, literally!

I arrived there at 5:07, it looks like the train is on the platform, i run up to the first station guy, and said please can you let me on to the platform and buy a ticket on the train (There are barriers in Oxford) He says no! So i thought oh man i missed that, and queued up for a ticket! Finally got there and said i wanted the next train to Chesterfield because i knew i missed the 5:06 one. He proceeded to tell me, really slowly that i might be in luck and the train looks like its running 20 mins late! By this time it is 5:15, so i said great I’ll get on that one then thanks! He continued to faff around looking at stuff, by this point i am thinking ‘You idiot give me the ticket or i will still miss the train!’ finally he handed me a ticket, and i made it on the train!

Katie didn’t know i was coming home until Friday, So when i turned up and she answered the door she was quite shocked!

So its been good so far! Off to Rileys with my brother in a sec…

Just got back from a couple of days at home, which was really cool. Spent some quality time with Katie and the family so was good. Today me and Katie treated ourselves to a pizza hut, and a lovely hot cookie dough desert

It was really nice to get home to a quiet house! Most people were at the pub! So i even got a bit of songwriting in tonight, which was good

Our dryer here also seems to be a little broken! On opening the door, to see how the clothes are doing, the dryer continues to dry, and clothes tend to come spinning out on to the kitchen floor!

Anyway, not much point in this post but never mind! Best be off to bed, playing a little bit of acoustic guitar in church in the morning

Yesterday was probably the longest day i have had for a while! Waking up at just gone 6, for the 7am prayer meeting/ I then proceeded to wake myself up by a swift visit to Starbucks.

We were then taught in the day by a guy about ‘Salvation’. Which was 2 hours in the morning and 2 in the afternoon, with a department meeting sandwiched in the middle!

This evening then we went to School of theology, which is a programme over the yearrun by Simon Ponsonby, which was awesome actually, even after an already full days teaching!

That finished at 9:30, then at 10 i was down to lead worship in the 24/7 prayer room which is awesome! For a week we have a constant prayer room in the basement of the parish centre where you can just go and get some space and just pray. Each night between 10 and 11 someone leads some worship. This week then leads up to saturday which is the new wine prayer day here.

When i was first asked to lead an hour of worship, my initial reaction was man thats a long time! But man its amazing what happens when you just let the holy spirit guide you. By the end though i just wanted to go on all night! The holy spirit was just so present in the room and it was just a really worshipful atmosphere

I did draw up a rough setlist for the hour, but that pretty much got thrown out the window straight away! It was weird, i discovered i actually have more songs saved in my head than perhaps i usually think!

I can’t wait to get back into the prayer room actually! And in march the church will have a permanant prayer room when the new building is finished down the road

I am just off to the prayer room now again actually i lead worship at alpha tonight which was cool! Co leading at Risky Living on thursday and then home on friday, Katie, Family and Mcfly Sorted.

In Christ.