Jesus: True and Better

After a good start to the week? Enlarge your vision of Christ and watch this brilliant kinetic typography clip accompanying Tim Keller explaining how Jesus is the ‘true and better’ Adam, Abel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Rock of Moses, Job, David, Esther, Jonah, temple, lamb, life, bread (I may have missed a couple).

[HT: Mez McConnell]

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Vicar’s wife job description: Part 14: Food and other stuff

It’s been a while since I posted a Vicar’s wife job description and yesterday was particularly manic, so I thought I’d give you yet another glimpse of life in our Vicarage from my perspective.

Yesterday I cooked:

• Meringues (using up leftovers) for Thursday’s coffee morning.
• Bread for lunch for mini mission team (7 adults expected, tho’ only 5 ate in the end).
• Soup for ditto.
• Lasagne for Diamond, a school gate mum friend who’s just moved house, and her family.
• Roast chicken, mashed potatoes & parsnip and steamed cabbage for the family, including Happy.
• Chicken stock from the chicken bones (see above).

Yesterday I hoovered:

• The hall
• The family room. This took longer than you’d think, due to wood burning stove dust getting into every crevice and me not having deep hoovered for er-hum weeks now.

Yesterday I organised:

• Our 5 year college reunion, including individually emailing everyone who’d not yet got back to me.
• My pantry. I would not have chosen to do this, you understand, but a shelf was on the point of collapse, so I had to empty it and the Vicar had to do some manly stuff with a drill. Result: lots of dust followed by safe, clean and reorganised shelf.



• Piano practice by three children.
• Quiz papers to be carried out by three children.
• Myself and two other women to start a new ministry in our church – we’re thinking of calling it ‘The Brunch Bunch’.
• The vast pile of odd socks and pants to prevent morning underwear crises, of which there are far too many in the Vicarage.

Yesterday I did not:

• Hoover the stairs and upper landing. Again.
• Pick up the form from school about applying to be a parent governor.
• Nobble the teacher who’s meant to be organising the volunteers so that I can start making use of my CRB form by going into school to help out.
• Remember to give the reply about the party to the Engineer’s friend’s mother.

Today I am going to:

• Hoover the stairs and landings. I am.
• Attend a prayer meeting.
• Help with preparation of lunch club vegetables and the deep cleaning of the church hall kitchen.
• Get those governor forms and nobble that teacher. And the mother.
• Take the kids to swimming lessons.
• Cook a curry so that everyone can eat – at different times due to the Vicar having Governors and a baptism meeting.
• Make a list of all the work that needs doing to the house – we have our Quinquennial tomorrow.

Wish me luck!

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