It was announced on Sunday during the notices that the wife of one of our Church Wardens has accepted a placement at a church a mile or so away (over the river…) for six months as part of her training for ordination.
We weren't sure how this would affect the rest of her family, but I have just received an email asking for people to "fill in" gaps on the service rota that starts after Easter given that the whole family will be away.
This means, I deduce, that there will be a vacancy for Church Warden at the AGM in April and the opportunity has come to me rather sooner than I was expecting.
I feel its a bit like getting married, or having kids. You can't wait until you are ready because you never will be and it isn't up to you to decide anyway.
I have been thinking that I would like to stand for the post when MM stood down, but it looked as if that might be a couple of years away yet, which suits me fine either way. There are implications that concern Tx about the busy nature of my life already and whether or not the stress impact of the position might be overwhelming, but I see it differently. To me, it represents an opportunity to really get thngs into clearer focus and a means to putting a lot more things into perspective and allowing them to run along a parallel track more efficiently.
I've not felt that he was doing a particularly great job anyway and would prefer to see a higher profile, but he is strong in his faith and a good example of Christian sincerity and purpose.
This all coincides with my having to stand down from the PCC in April anyway as I have come to the end of my three year tenure. Seems rather frustrating when The Building is moving on and we have so many exciting plans - maybe He feels now that I have a role to play in the greater scheme of things after all. There is a vacancy for Treasurer that I can't fill because of time commitments (and being already behind with the accounts at work!) but as warden I would still be on the PCC.

So I need to start more earnest preparations, and what better time than Lent for this?
We will be repeating the "Give Away a Thing a Day" project that we started last year, and I fully intend to focus once more on the cleansing process that I started in, what, September? It's gone well and still holds, but could always do with renewed strength and purpose.
We are all going to engage in more conscientious Bible study this year too.
Last two year's I have given up coffee and tea for Lent, but that all seems very trivial now.

Let him hear, who has ears to listen

Yummy. The smaller, thicker pancakes this year were delicious.
Easier to cook, easier to keep warm and generally much less of a faff all round.
Added a couple of tablespoons of icing sugar to the batter mix which went down well. They are all stuffed and in bed.

Work tomorrow.
I must prepare a long overdue job review for Jo.