Apprentice

Great news! I’ve been accepted for the SWIM programme! Exactly which church I’ll be serving at still has to be worked out yet. I mentioned that MCC would be my first choice in the interview and I really hope that’s where they send me. Keep praying.
No running today. I’m thinking of either focusing on weights [...]

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Ran the 5K again today. This should have been my day for cross-training or rest but I thought I had to go to Dublin tomorrow for another Encounter Summer Staff training day. I wasn’t thinking and got my days mixed up, the training days are Wednesday and Thursday. Thinking that I wouldn’t get to run [...]

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No running yesterday because I had to go to Dun Laoghaire for an Encounter Summer Staff training day. It was a good day but I was feeling rough because I didn’t get much sleep and all the travelling lately is taking its toll on me. My tiredness and initial uneasiness around crowds made me kind [...]

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First day back running after three days off today. I figured it would be tough and was prepared to even have to walk a bit so I chose the nice 5K that starts and ends with my home, the one with the nice scenery. I managed to make it all the way around, running all [...]

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I’m tired, I’ve done a lot of travelling since Tuesday. Tuesday morning I took a bus from Clonmel to Dublin, then when I was in Dublin I took a train to Maynooth to stay with my friends Kevin and Claire. Wednesday morning I took a train back to Dublin, then a bus to Belfast, [...]

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Hello! I’m still alive. Hurrah! I’ve been a bit busy, far busier than I thought I’d be this week. I imagined things would slow down after last Wednesday, which is when I handed in the last of my assignments at the IBI but I was wrong. Everything seems to be happening this week. I have [...]

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This year I come to the end of my certificate course at the IBI. If you had asked me last year what I would do I would have probably said “continue on and get the degree” but to do that I’d have to switch to full-time studies (or else finish when I’m 30) and I [...]

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It occurred to me recently that I haven’t posted about my MAP Meetings with Peter in a while. Sorry. I forgot. The meetings are still going well but writing about them is basically just re-writing the notes that are already going into my MAP Journal so it’s not very productive. So unless anything unusual [...]

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