a friend’s aunt was quite unsure why during the holy mass she had to sing a song about a cross-eyed bear called gladly. years later she found out that she was supposed to be ready to support jesus by confirming “gladly, the cross i’d bear –

a quote from a discussion on hymns in childhood on i used to believe.

steve blogs about levitated.net which has lots of pretty fractals and things you can while away hours watching!

i’m up early today – couldn’t resist just a little go on the wifi 😉

am off to the east end of london to teach/share/have conversation with a bunch of german pastors (who are over for a week or so) about alt worship, grace, emerging church and all that…