Beautiful day today eh? Spent a bit of time this morning in the park - so beautiful Lurgan park here on our own doorstep and i forget about that sometimes. Talking with my good friend Adrian today and he said that he was reading somewhere that to many leaders are focusing on the future that they fail to live in the now. Today strolling around the park i am asking God for a contentment with the 'now.' Not that thinking about the future is worng - it is good to have vision, we need it - but when we focus so much on it that we forget about the 'now' we fail to see God in the world and the lives around us. We fail to see the lives God is doing stuff in or how he wants to use us to bring His beauty to these lives. Maybe we even miss Him in our lives.

I am coming to learn that when Jesus said he could give us life to the full he was not saying that it was going to be an easy ride through life but rather we would enter into life in its fullest sense. In other words we could experience the mystery of God in the joy of watching our dreams come to pass but also in the pain and distress life sometimes brings. We can feel alive inside even in the earthiness and ordinariness of life. Being a christian i think is not about being detached from real life but being a christian is entering into that life more fully....the joy of it and in a mysterious way the pain as well.

Sorry for ranting. Heading up to a art exhibition tonight in cafe vaudville with john mac and then going to a meeting for my friend William. Will let you know how it goes.