Harrys Travels

Saints... and books

Its offical then. I'm going to be writing a book for Lion Hudson, the book will be short biographical pieces on (mostly) 1st millenium saints looking to the lives of these saints for inspirition today. the message their lives can teach us etc.

Tabor - Czech Republic

It's 7am, the sun is already shining, there are cats and chickens and a dog roaming around the garden and sounds of people waking up all over the house...

Painting

Here are a few paintings from the last couple of months.
They are all oils of various sizes. To be honest i have no idea how to paint with anything else!! I have bought myself a set of water colours though which will be a little better for traveling!
The first 3 will form part of a prayer meditation on the baptism and wilderness experience of Jesus and hung in Bremen Cathedral for the Cristival festival.
Then there's one of a beach at Ohrid. And lastly one we use for the morning intercesional prayer here in Ramsdorf.

I couldnt get the dimensions right when i uploaded them so if you want a better look; click on the painting to open it in a new window.
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More Marmite = More Posts

I haven’t blogged anything for a while. I’m not sure why, I thought it was partly because there hasn’t been much to tell (which is true), partly it’s because I’ve been feeling pretty down and didn’t want to express that publicly (that’s true too).

However I found this week that my lack of expression may have just been due to a depression brought on by a lack of that most valuable of substances… Marmite.

Glasnost flic

I've never before stuck a youtube vid on our blog, and its not something I want to turn into a habit, but...

This is a fantastic little short film made by a friend I have never met (Shea Sizemore) about our friends in Skopje.

Onto the next stage

The last couple of months have been a pretty exhausting emotional roller-coaster ride (hence v little blogging) and now that we have decided to leave our lovely friends here in Ramsdorf earlier than planned ,to continue our journey, I kind of feel like we're about to jump off one rollercoaster onto another (albeit a very different one).

Newsletters

This time last year we wrote our first ever newsletter. We thought it was about time for an updated one.
Download newsletter_jan_08_printable.doc Download newsletter_jan_08.pdf

If you would like to be added to our mailing list please drop us a line at thing1andthing2@hotmail.co.uk.

If you know others who know us who arent computer savvy it would help us enormously (and save on postage) if you could print a copy (of the printable newsletter) and give it to them, please let us know you've done so or we may end up mailing another one out.

Thanks for reading the newsletter and for travelling with us on our journey

S,M,M,E
xxx

Tick, tock, tick ,tock

Just came across this on another blog, it's a world time clock which shows a whole variety of important statistics and how rapidly they change. Kind of blows your mind and speeds up your prayers!

words

I've writen another article for the 24-7 prayer international site. If you are interested you can read it here.

I like to write and I have recently discovered I  like to paint.

Blowing the cobwebs away

The last week and a bit has been very tough for us. Without going into details we've had to do lots of questioning (of ourselves and others) and are currently having to take a long hard look at where we're at.

So today, when we decided to take the kids down to the lake - them on bikes, us walking (and sometimes running) along behind, it was really special. I don't know about you but I love those days when your head is full of whatever so you take a walk to blow the cobwebs away.

Having grown up within a few miles of the sea and so it's always been the place to go when I need to clear  my head, especially when it's windy. I love that feeling of being blown along and feeling the power of the wind, with the waves pounding the shore - oh how I miss the sea! Where we live in Ramsdorf we're very fortunate to live very close to a lake, but there's very rarely any wind here and certainly I don't remember very many waves, but today I loved it because there was a pretty strong wind and even some gentle waves hitting the beach - just what I needed (although it made cycling a bit tricky for the kids!!)

I wouldn't say all the cobwebs have gone (a bit like in the flat!), but a walk in the fresh air really did me good. So if you find any time to pray for us we would really appreciate your prayers for patience, direction, a lightness in spirit and oodles of wisdom, thank you :)