Emotion

Emotion. Not something I normally talk about - especially not my own emotions! Probably for this reason, I've been challenged to talk about how I'm feeling in this blog... So here goes.

I've been massively excited about Thailand for a long time now. I suppose it's partly just because I love travel - the sights, the sounds, the smells, trying everything new and being so far away from home recognising things that seem completely different but which are actually intrinsically the same when you really think about it.

Writing this leads me to think of the passage from 1 Corinthians 12 (especially verses 14 - 24) which can be found here. This is a passage I've come back to time and time again, because for me it's a massive encouragement that all of us are part of a body in Christ, and though we are all unique and different we all matter. So though there's an inevitable bit of nervousness for me about this trip, in some senses it just feels very natural from us in the UK, all part of different churches in Reading, to be joining another part of the church body in Thailand. Verses 25 & 26 surely just shout to us that God is always and 100% with us and encouraging us - he "designed" us to be of one body, just as we will be in Thailand.

So, like everyone else I'm feeling stressed and under pressure to 'get everything done' before we leave... But equally, there's so much we're going to journey through with God just in the three weeks we're away that my excitement is helping me through. I've done my best to talk about how I'm feeling - maybe it's something I need to work on!

Hope everyone reading this is well,


Andrew