A bit more catch up...

So yesterday, in answer to a previous post I got offered a great job in Oxford at a company called Gillespies, and I shall be working there for the next 12 months. God is faithful.

What could have been....

So I need to bactrack a little, as I haven't had a chance to post in the last couple of days.

Last Saturday a friend of mine, James, came over for the afternoon and the decision was made, along with dad, that what that afternoon was in need of was a spot of golf. We dismissed the dark threatening clouds in an optimistic manner, remarking that by the time we arrived at the first hole they would have dissappeared in place of beautiful sunshine. This was not to be the case, in fact neither would the golf feature much in the afternoon as it unfolded.
The clutch cable snapped as we were driving there and we came to rest at the entrance to a farm track. There we stayed for several hours, and within an hour or so we found ourselves sheltering inside the car from the downpour, admiring the appproaching lightning and waiting for the AA.

Now James has a friend who works for Radio 2, and he needed someone for a quiz that very afternoon. The prize was to win tickets to a local music festival that I had my eye on, with a sensational line-up. www.endoftheroadfestival.com

So there I found myself, with the windows steaming up, the rain chattering on the roof and the lightning around us, talking live to Dermot O'Leary on Radio 2.

We had a lovely chat about all sorts of things including eating puffins, before I successfully managed to get both of my questions wrong, and lose out on winning the tickets.
A truly memorable afternoon even if I didn't win the tickets.

So what now?

This evening was one of those great 'father and son' times. We cooked Toad in the Hole, talked about wine and attempted our first Sudoku together. We're a bit rubbish.

We are staying in my cousins house, a big country hall in Suffolk, a place which holds most of my happiest childhood memories. It is beautiful here.

Now to answer the question that I set myself in the title of this post:
Well I guess the answer is that I really don't know, I think for the first time ever in my life I don't actually have anything sorted out for the next 12 months of my life. I have no university course to go back to for at least a year, all the jobs I have tried for have falle through, and nothing else really looms ahead.

In theory I should have something, as I have to do at least 9 months work before I'll be allowed back to university, but I have nothing. It's amazing how it doesn't worry me at all, I know that God will provide.

The paper kingdom

Why the paper kingdom?
It's the title of a song that I am writing at the moment with a good friend James, and my brother.

In some ways it's our tribute to Josh Ritter's 9 minute epic, Thin Blue Flame. But it's much more than that as well, whilst we admire his heartfelt lyrics as he wrestles with his idea of God, our views are a little different. The song is auto biographical for all three of us really, with most of the lyrics coming from James. It talks about the way in which youth tells us that we can have anything we want, and that we deserve it as well. We surround ourselves with this paper kingdom that looks so good, built for our own pleasure and enjoyment, without any reference to God, so tempting to do. Of course the paper kingdom so easily burns, and what are we left with? nothing, apart from what we have in the Lord Jesus Christ.