Monday 11 February 2008

Cleaning Up - What a difference Two Hours Make

Spent the morning at the hall, for an hour avoiding an amazing wrk party who were cleaning things up while a smaller group spent an hour cleaning their "souls" as part of a Lent study group. We learnt about the desert experience, getting it away from it all, as the other group tackld it all and cleaned it up. So much stuff got thrown out, including a fridge and so much bar emphemera that it looked like the tail end of a great party.
In the end we could stay in the desrt no longer and all joined together as we transformed an unusable and unloved room into something which had... possibilities.
People and buildings need regeneration, sometimes by stepping back: we see what needs to be done, some by stepping forward, by getting on with it, we clear enough stuff to see what might be...

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