Happy New Year!

I have an angst-ridden relationship with new year's resolutions. I love making them--I love making goals and lists and schemes for self-improvement. But inevitably, a few weeks into the year, I stop building the good habits I had determined to pursue and pass through some small crisis of disillusionment. Do you find, as I do, that your list always contains certain items? Eat better, exercise more, keep longer and more frequent devotions. Is it really worth setting goals which I will inevitably fail to achieve?

Some Sunday Service Musings

The church Jeremiah and I attend here in Oxford was built in the beginning of the twentieth century, and it could easily be older. The building was constructed of old grey stone with beautiful stained glass windows, and the interior architecture nods to the romanesque, with beautiful rounded arches and a high vaulted ceiling. Sunday services feel more weighty in such an environment.