A Considerable Speck

‘ve been sitting here working on our annual Advent “Service of Compassion and Hope” (AKA “Blue Christmas Service” and “The Longest Night Service”). Working on it has got me looking back on the paths I’ve travelled, the people I’ve met and the experiences I’ve had on the journey to where I find myself now. As I look back and reflect on the things and the people that have had the greatest impact on my life, it is the small, seemingly mundane and inconsequential moments and actions (at the time, anyway) that seem to have had the greatest and longest-lasting impact on me. Sure, the big, earth-shattering moments do feature in my journey, but their impact isn’t as great or as earth-shattering as they seemed at the time. I guess, what it’s forcing me to do is to appreciate and embrace the small experiences in life and to celebrate and give thanks for the people and relationships that are a part of my life right now.

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Welcome to my personal musings and conversations about the emerging church, postmodernism, culture, spirituality and loads more. But first, the title of this blog… A Considerable Speck is a poem by Robert Frost – one of my favourite poems by him, hence the decision to use the title as the title of this blog. I’ll leave it up to someone else to work out if it has anything at all to do with the content of this blog.

By the way, my favourite part of the poem is:

“I have in mind myself and recognize
Mind when I meet with it in any guise
No one can know how glad I am to find
On any sheet the least display of mind.”

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