A Bloggers Prayer

One of the things that Greenbelt has begun exploring is this whole blogging malarkey, there were session in between the lines and as part of the wider programme. One of the interesting things which i have read about since coming back from the festival was that Andrew Jones has worked on a 'spirituality of blogging', part of which is a prayer for bloggers. All a bit deep for me at this particular time as my sleep patterns start to readjust to full on family and work life (staying up til 3.30am and getting up again at 8 not recommended with two kids, a wife and six parishes to consider). Anyway, i will devote more brain time to the subject when feeling a little more together, until then you can read the prayer by clicking the post name above or going to http://jonnybaker.blogs.com/jonnybaker/worship_tricks/wt38.html

Andrew Jones has a blog at http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/ well worth looking at, even if you don't buy in to quite the same perspective.

I should warn you, there will be some more Greenbelt stuff, and various thought processes inspired by GB in the coming weeks. If I ever sleep enough to get things together.

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Andrew Jones said…
thanks Al!
8:58 am
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