Flat-sitting fun...

Am flat-sitting for a couple of my close friends at the moment. As much as I love my family, I am so loving and appreciating the time out on my own!!! Plus the flat is absolutely gorgeous (like show-home but lived-in in style), so thats an extra bonus - feels a bit like having a mini-holiday.

Has got me thinking though. Wonder where I will be living in a year, well in just over a year. In just over a year I finish college. Applying for ministerial accreditation at the moment, which means if the BoM confirm the sense of call to ministry that I (and others) do, then come the new year the next step will be looking to 'settle' somewhere.

Settle ...
Somewhere ...
Mmmm ...
Wonder where that will be ...

Will it be in Scotland???
In the north???
Central belt???
East coast???
West coast???
Small church???
Big church???
Where will I be living???
Mmmm ...
Somewhere ...

As I finish my last assignment (ok, lets be more honest, begin putting my 'notes' into some form of essay) of the year I enter my last summer as a student ... as one somewhat 'unsettled.' Have begun to talk more of leaving and now things at church have to be planned in an awareness that this is the last year I'm around and things including me have to be done with that in mind. It's not that I'm desperate to leave, far from it - EMBC is my home, EK is where God called me to when I came back from England - but talking about begins the work of preparing my heart and mind, as well as the others around me.

Suddenly the 'what will I be when I grow up' is becoming so much more real and so much more a question of 'who am I becoming as I grow up'. I know God has somewhere for me ... I just don't know where. I know that the plans God has has for me are plans to prosper me and not to harm me, to give me a hope and a future ... I just don't quite know what they are or what they will look like. I'm thinking about it all so much more now, and as I flat-sit (such a small thing) I realise I am ready ... or at least am being got ready ... for moving out, growing up and maybe even becoming an adult. Who knows where and doing exactly who knows what - but in a years time or so maybe God will have made that clearer ... and I am excited to be on the journey!