Last night my boyfriend finally managed to convince me to go for a night-time walk (well, evening, but after it got dark at any rate!). He seems to love Christmas lights - though only in the dark - and so wanted to go see some of them around Cambridge. I've kind of never seen the point of just walking around, and so I put it off and put it off and finally, on Saturday, promised I'd go on a walk tomorrow, and so yesterday, after dinner, off we went! And it was great! We just walked and talked; we saw Christmas trees covered in lights and went and looked over the river; we played 'pooh sticks' (though not very well as we had to wait for the cars to go to cross over the bridge and then it was too dark to really see if the sticks had come through or not... but it was still fun!); we tried to climb trees but couldn't find any with low enough branches for even his 6"5 height + arms to reach; and we mucked around and laughed and just walked.
And then today; I needed to go get some books out from both the University Library and the Divinity Faculty library and for some reason, when sat with my friends at lunch time, I asked if anyone wanted to go for a walk (to go get them!). Usually I'd just cycle, but for some reason, this was my suggestion, and one of my friends needed to get some books out of the UL and her department library too, so we did a big library round-trip - all just walking. And again, it was nice; we chatted and laughed and took in the fresh air, dodged other pedestrians and collected our books (until I felt I would've been better crawling back due to the heaviness of the numerous humongous books I now had in my bag!!!). It took longer than cycling would've, but it was also WAY more enjoyable! On both occasions, it was the fact of somebody else's company that made the experience, which otherwise seems pointless, long, and boring actually quite enjoyable! As I said in my first advent post; I'm not very good at waiting! I don't see the point; it takes too long; and it is just so boring!!! And I've gotten to the 7th day of my advent blog, and I'm there again - wishing it would just hurry up and be done with so we can just have Christmas! But what makes the waiting not just bearable, but even enjoyable, is sharing it with someone else. And God most certainly wants to share it with me; so that together we can just wait. So we can talk, and laugh, and take in the fresh, beautiful air; so he can show me all the things I'm missing in life and marvel at my excitement or my sorrow when I see them; so he can lift me up to the branches of the trees too tall for me to climb and shine a light on the stick floating in the water too dark for me to see. So that in this time of waiting, my mind might be drawn away from the boredom in myself, to the excitement there is in him. Life is not meant to be boring; so why do we make it so?! The Bible certainly doesn't present a God who wants our lives to be boring - everyone with whom God interacted went on the lead a highly exciting life; in this time of waiting, this is something I am finally finding the time to explore!
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AuthorI'm a recent Cambridge Theology graduate now studying for a Masters in Biblical Studies and blogging about all sorts of things! I'm interested in faith, Church, theology, social action, the great outdoors and being creative, and all of those things - along with many more - come through in my posts!
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