Alpha baby!!

Two weeks into the central London student Alpha at Tiger tiger and things are going great. I am loving holding alpha downstairs in a nightclub -nice and grimy and the student world often is. One of the things i love most about this course is that so many different churches have joined together to make it happen. It all makes me very happy.

x x x

new term, endless possibilities...

Hi blog fans,

Sorry it has been such a long time. Things in meg land are going swimmingly, thanks for asking.

I am really excited about the term ahead, God has amazing plans for students in London and i am very happy to be playing a bit of a part in some of them.

Have i ever mentioned that my job is amazing? i get to hang out with some of the most interesting, lovely and most inspiring people in all of London. Student work is amazing becuase literally everything is a possibility.

We are young and idealistic and I LOVE that. There are no grown ups around telling us what we cant do, so the sky is the limit...

Its time to dream deep and wide and colourful and big and fast and bright.

Check out our new student group on facebook

http://www.facebook.com/group.php? gid=5390543029

meg x x x

You're like a doctor but your medicine is for the soul...

Man what a truely amazing week.

This week we have been at London Southbank University everyday with a bookstall full of bibles and books in 11 different languages. The response from the students has been amazing they have been really touched by the fact that we have bibles in their own language.

I've been chatting to people from all over the wolrd all week, from many different background cultures and religions and i've had an opportunity to share the gospel with nearly all of them.

One lovely hindu guy i met told said 'You're like a doctor but your medicine is for the soul', he took a bible Bengali and let me pray for him there and then to meet with the one true God. It was beautiful. God has great plans for that university and i'm so blessed to be used by Him.I love doing what i've been created to do.I just pray that in the next few weeks and months i'll be operating more the prophetic and seeing signs, wonders and salvation on campus.

come on!

Oh Belle and Sebastian

I have really been enjoying the re-runs of Teachers on trouble at the moment. I had forgotten how much Belle and Sebastian they used in the sound track and it has made me very very happy. I love belle andsebastian so much, they are definately the sound track to my mis-understood tenage years! Late nineties indie pop was so brilliant. got me thinking about Kenickie, Ooberman, Wheat, early Gomez, Kay, Salako and pretty much anything else on the Jeepster label. mmmm lovely.

Am wearing my 2001 Radiohead hoody today for nostalgic reasons. i bought it at the Big Tent tour just before Kid A was brought out. I took a day of sixth form just to lie and bed and listen to it! Brilliant.Just thinking alot about how awsome music is, and how much i obsessively love it thank you Jesus!

think i'm going to spend an indulgent evening watching my belle and sebastian fans only dvd. ha ha what a music bore!

not even if he was the right kind of fat and funny...

Met up with an old friend yesterday, we had a good catchup. He filled me in on the details of his recent engagement. Usually such information would bore me very quickly or depress me slightly.

Not yesterday.

God has been right at the centre of it all, every inch of the relationship and where it is heading. It was really lovely to hear and so refreshing. It made me see that for me to be single at the moment is absolutely God's best for my life right now. I am able to focus on my work in an amazing way and God is doing great things in my ministry at All Saints, i am able to give Him my all, including my mind, my brain and my time!

God's been doing some pretty good work in me over the past couple of weeks in reguard to relationships - i didn't even realise it was something that needed to be done! i have been content being single since moving to London, safe in the knowledge that if i met someone that would be cool but i'm not looking for it. Today i realised i dont even want to be in a relationship. I am very joyful in my singleness. Its God's best for me right now and i dont want it anyother way, it was quite the revelation! Even if someone who was the right kind of fat and funny came along i wouldn't want it right now.

God gave me a picture last week based on the verse "let us run with percverance the race marked out for us, let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith"I was running in a running lane with my eyes firmly fixed on Jesus, running the path He had set out for me. then i saw that my husband was running in the track next to me, suddenly our paths had started running in the same direction and the same route.This is the case for all the things i'm looking for in my life. God will bring them at the right time, running thesame way, i dont have to go looking for them just keep my eyes on Him and where's He's leading me. it's all so exciting

power in sacrifice

I'm a firm beleiver that God puts us in places with certain people to show us things and open our worlds - he has been doing that alot with me today. Exciting plans and wonders are beginning to brew.

Thought i'd share a little from my prayer journal, something i was mulling over last night.

Been thinking about communion and the fact that i still after years and years i dont really get it. The King of Kings in all his majesty became a human, a weak human, was beaten and broken. we drink that blood, we are washed in that blood. There is great power in it because of his humility. In His humble blood there is great power.

Power in blameless sacrifice - it harnesses all the power of creation - of heaven - of the universe. It ripped the veil in the temple, cracked the rocked where Aslan was killed. Humility has the victory over death, over EVERYTHING EVER. that broken and beaten man hanging from the tree transformed the world and changed eternity.

While He was on the earth he valued the things that the world couldn't even see. He ate with the ones the wolrd dispised. Even his disciples, those closest to Him only saw Him through a glass darkly, didn't understand.

He turned the priorities of the wolrd upside down and he is still doing it today. he longs for us to do the same. To unleash that ancient power of old by acting out of humility and love.

To go in to battle with a towel round our waist and mud on our knees. The battle is won as we feed the poor, love the unloveable, befriend the rejected, father the fatherless.

There is ultimate power in the sacrifice - in the unseen sacrifice.

I haven't been able to shake the image of Aslan after the stone table had been cracked in two. That is the Mighty God we serve today. His voice thunders over the waters and yet He beat death through a painful death on the cross.i want to live my life with that same power. i want to unlockthe power of the cross in my life, the power of sacrifice and love.

Smith - gone but not forgotten

On monday night my hamster Smith died.It has made me much sadder than i thought it would which makes me feel slightly pathetic!

She was 2 1/2 and died peacefully in her sleep, i reckon thats pretty good going for a hamster.

She was a good hamster named after Smith Wigglesworth eventhough she was a girl.

She only ever bit one person once and that's becuase she thought it was a carrot.

She was very tame and lovely and used to run around my room in her little plastic ball.

Once steve put vaseline in her fur to make her a punk hamster and from then on no boys were EVER allowed to touch her.

Mum and dad had been looking after her for the past three months cos i'm not allowed pets in my new house. I missed her.

and now she's dead, that sucks.