I have left VIT at home with the family to come away with our company to a remote part of Scotland. We are having what would normally be called a retreat, but since Michael Wolff, one of our facilitators, does not do “retreats”, this is a Company Advance. We are here to work out “Who [...]
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When VIT and I got married she promised to Love, Honour and Obey me. (Yeah, don’t laugh but she did, wearing her red shoes and looking fabulous.) I had just promised to Love, Honour and Worship her. Whether or not you like the idea of a woman promising to obey her husband, there is [...] I’ve been trying to write a blog about vocation, interference, arrogance, uninformed decisions relayed by third parties, complete lack of negotiation on the part of someone who does not know all the facts and can’t be bothered to find out. And then I gave up since saying what I actually think at the moment would [...] I have perhaps already alluded to the logistical challenge of being a VFIT. Many people have jobs which take them away from home, and many of those have both partners doing full time jobs. So we are by no means unique. But VIT and I are renegotiating the way we interact with each other over [...] VIT is away on a retreat. (In a few weeks I’m going on a retreat too. Except that the dynamo that is leading it for our company says he does not “retreat” and so we are having a “Company Advance.”) Anyway, VIT is on retreat, and so today the wonderful people from the [...] Part of VIT’s training is to go to a parish not too far from Coverdale Hall. There she has to take part in services and generally muck in. She’s going to a Saturday breakfast club next week, with a Speaker. Of course there are almost as many different flavours of local church as there are [...] |
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