Alpha, end
This was the last night of Alpha. I'd like to write a lot about it, but I am weary, and also physically tired. I'm going to check my to-do list, put off till tomorrow whatever I can, and crawl into bed with a book. I'm reading DaVinci Code, along with also reading Love and Will, and reading the New Testament. But tonight is brain candy night I think. No treadmill, no situps, no more thinking. DaVinci code with all it's dramatics. I've only just started and he's already met a beautiful confident detective with wonderful physical descriptors. This explains why the author went to pains to explain that the hero is no longer in contact with the beautiful confident woman from book one. Sigh. The codes are cool.
This evening was about the church. I had lots of insights, learned lots... don't feel like posting about it right now.
Although I'll say one thing I didn't get to say at the small group portion. I remember at U of T there being a quote from a president past who wished to tear down all the buildings on the campus, plant a big tree and meet with students underneath it and THIS would truly be a University.
There is a final chapter to the Alpha course and we didn't see it and aren't scheduled to see it. And it discusses exactly some of the questions that are pestering me now. We got a 'the Alpha Course Manual" and it has notes and references for each evening. Each evening has a DVD. The notes for the final evening's DVD included such things as "What impact will becoming a Christian make on my life" "as an act of your will, offer your bodies... (this includes sexuality, is this the reason for the exclusion?) "it might involve suffering"... and other things that I want to KNOW about.
I'm being impatient. We asked Jim Kitson and he said we'd have a screening or allow the DVD to be borrowed. I am too impatient, I know. I'm working on it.
OK, exhaustion and emotional fatigue are taking over. Gut nacht.
This evening was about the church. I had lots of insights, learned lots... don't feel like posting about it right now.
Although I'll say one thing I didn't get to say at the small group portion. I remember at U of T there being a quote from a president past who wished to tear down all the buildings on the campus, plant a big tree and meet with students underneath it and THIS would truly be a University.
There is a final chapter to the Alpha course and we didn't see it and aren't scheduled to see it. And it discusses exactly some of the questions that are pestering me now. We got a 'the Alpha Course Manual" and it has notes and references for each evening. Each evening has a DVD. The notes for the final evening's DVD included such things as "What impact will becoming a Christian make on my life" "as an act of your will, offer your bodies... (this includes sexuality, is this the reason for the exclusion?) "it might involve suffering"... and other things that I want to KNOW about.
I'm being impatient. We asked Jim Kitson and he said we'd have a screening or allow the DVD to be borrowed. I am too impatient, I know. I'm working on it.
OK, exhaustion and emotional fatigue are taking over. Gut nacht.
posted by Katrina Urquhart at 10:37 p.m.
3 Comments:
as i was walking last night i was thinking of you and kev at your last alpha night and looking forward to your post.
hunger can be infectious, like, you know when you're out with a friend who says, wanna get a burger or something, and next thing you know, you do, although you weren't thinking about food a moment ago.
well, maybe it's a little different, cuz i'm often thinking about purpose and divinity, etc., in general, but your hunger has made me hungry. so maybe i'll enrol in the next alpha course.
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