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Achievements of 2007, aims for 2008

Last year I wrote that my aims for 2007 were to get a relationship, to learn to drive, and to get spiritual director.

To update you: I am in a relationship now, I am learning to drive, and I still haven't got spiritual director.

So for 2008 I need to:

Pass my driving test.
Get a spiritual director.
And get a job, like being a proper minister and thing.

Comments

Robin Edgar said…
So just what are your chances of finding a suitable "spiritual director" within the British Unitarian community?
3:53 pm
Stephen Lingwood said…
Not very likely at all, Robin. Spiritual direction is something that isn't really part of our faith life right now. I hope that changes in the future.

I have deleted your comment from the other post because it was off-topic.
6:38 pm
Robin Edgar said…
Well it was very much on the general topic of YouTube videos about people who are discriminated against due to their religious beliefs and practices. . . Are you limiting the topic of that thread only to discrimination against Muslims? Can I possibly slip it in here as being on topic to the current *spiritual direction* (or lack thereof. . .) of Montreal Unitarian U*Us.

Happy New Year anyway Stephen. It looks like it's off to a rip roaring start for that bane and scourge of the whole-wide U*U World the dreaded Emerson Avenger. . . Come to think of it, it is now being insinuated by at least one Montreal Unitarian U*U that I am something of a terrorist. ;-)

Needless to say I am not the least bit surprised to hear your candid response that spiritual direction is not really part of British Unitarian faith life right now.
11:41 pm
Robin Edgar said…
Thanks for being a good sport Stephen. I will try to look you up the next time I am in the UK which will hopefully be within the next year or two.
11:49 pm
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