the sunday before christmas jenny was preaching at st marys so i thought i'd go along (st marys is the church that grace is a congregation of). before going i stuck my head round harry's door to let him know we were going out to church. he was still in bed. jenny had gone early. when i go anywhere i try and take the camera - a sort of discipline i guess thinking that you can't take a photo of something if you don't have your camera...
it was an incredibly foggy morning so i thought i'd walk via a look at the common. well the fog was amazing and just drew me in so i got the camera out. and much as i intended to go towards the church i walked in the opposite direction and started taking photos. well 100 photos later and having walked via ealing common, walpole park and lammas park i had just about arrived at st mary's an hour later when my phone went. it was harry asking where i was. it turns out he had got out of bed to join me at church and the service was now over. so i met him at munsons and had a coffee and went home never having made it to church in spite of my good intentions. i'd had a wonderful time. i felt slightly guilty missing jen's sermon. but when i recounted the story over christmas my mum said 'i'm sure you were closer to god there...' which made me feel a whole lot better! the bench below was part of that morning. i have added others to flickr of course. i like this text message | patterns | the bench | rainforest
just back from a few days away over christmas staying with my younger brother steve's family being wined and dined which was brilliant. we have a bit of a family tradition of going together to see a film at some point over christmas, ever since we went and saw napoleon dynamite one christmas eve. so last night we went to see kite runner which is such a brilliant story. i loved the book and the follow up, a thousand splendid suns is my favourite book this year. the scenery is stunning in the film. it really made me want to drive the road from pakistan to kabul...
you take beautiful photographs jonny baker
Posted by: steve | December 28, 2007 at 06:31 PM
I agree with your mum!
Posted by: Laura | December 28, 2007 at 09:44 PM
Didn't God rest on on the 7th day so He could reflect on the beauty She had just created? My most intimate connections with God are when I'm on the water albeit kayaking, fishing, hiking or whatever.
Posted by: becky | December 29, 2007 at 03:44 PM
It throws the question back at me AGAIN and AGAIN, what actually is Church. Im communicating in Church tomorrow but I think I will take my camera with me and if I don't make it someone else can preach, ha ha.
Posted by: dennis coburn | December 29, 2007 at 10:09 PM
I always feel closer to God when I am not in church..there are too many distratctions going on there!
Posted by: Rachel Lovell | January 08, 2009 at 05:58 PM