Jude Smith

my hallway, theres a gap in my hallway, in my hallway a gap BECAUSE THE *@$$ing PIANO HAS GONE! The boiler room is a bit flooded but frankly that pails into insignificance now that the piano of doom is in the garage! Yay God!!!!!!

- you get lots of post in nice coloured envelopes - you get lots of post which isn't bills - but you still can't fathom who some of it is from (but at least its not bills!) - you have about seven emails left in your inbox, none of which you REALLY want to answer - you have very few new ones with which you can delay/ put off the difficult ones - businessmen get on trains with large carrier bags rather than briefcases - the train is busier at midnight than at six p.m. - no-one on the train is sober (except you.. if you're an abbess anyway.. honest!) - someone dies in Eastenders I'm sure there are more... tell me tell me..

Tapped a link to the BBC news site this morning to find out that John Spencer- Aka Leo McGarry has died. Reading the story the parallels between Spencer and Leo are uncanny: the heart attack, the recovering alcoholism. Is sad to hear that a great actor has died.

OK, so reasons why I am still a Christian: I went to see it. I am blogging about it (which is the latest WWJD style Christian accessory) I have read the books But: I didn't go with my church group I didn't take a non Christian friend I didn't preach the Gospel at the end And I didn't cry when Aslan died! Of course I'm talking about Narnia. I liked it.. but I wasn't profoundly moved by it. With all the hype I'm aware that this might be a sign that I have in fact backslidden, grieved the holy spirit or something.. Someone help!

I love 24-7! Yesterday we met to pray together for a few hours and to hear God and all that malarky. What a beautiful day.. praying together, lots of random things with sticks and swords. Was great to hear some prophetic stuff.. lovely to see people. Don't want to go into the details of the prophetic stuff cos it needs to have some more processing before public consumption! But its all very fun and I feel so so committed to this now! ... but really why i love it. After 12 hours of prayer, prophetic action, repentance and stuff we ended the day playing a new form of cricket with Play Doh and a sword! (lets not mention the candle chopping Miss J!!).. was wonderful... Yay!!

Well maybe. I haven't really superfluously blogged in a while. So here we go! I don't know whether you have all been introduced to my finger! Well hre it is! Now the thing about this finger is that it has a little bendy bit missing. Its only a little bit wonky and only really affects hitting people and playing guitar.. or so I thought.. It also seems that when I type with it it hits the keys at a funny angle and wipes the letters off! My laptop is now a-less, and will soon be s-less... How weird! Just thought I would share!

Yeah, sure! Today's rant is a little bit more than just that though.. Its actually embedded itself deep into my psyche really. In the last two days I've had three or four pleas for me to pray for Norman Kember. He's the 74 year old British peace campaigner who has been kidnapped in Iraq. Fine, and please hear that I totally value this guys and his contribution. BUT I have never had an email or text asking me to pray for the family of the ight people shot dead this morning in Baghdad. Or the incidents below which ALL happened before lunchtime yesterday "BALAD - Six Iranians, including two women, and an Iraqi woman were kidnapped after gunmen opened fire on their bus on Monday, seriously wounding the Iraqi driver, police said. The group were on their way to a Shi'ite holy shrine in Balad, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad. Police said the three women were released later on Monday. TIKRIT - Thafer Migwil Hazza, a relative of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein an...