This morning Rufus came over for a chat, so we sat in Cafe Castan overlooking Llandaff Fields and drank coffee for an hour and a half, sharing thoughts about ministry and teamwork, as the Church in Wales rolls out its new area ministry plan. He's brought a good deal of experience with him moving from social work into the church in his fifties, but he is fired up with enthusiasm for a life of pastoral care in the community, flavoured with a healthy dose of practical realism. He keeps his feet on the ground with lots of domestic DIY jobs, furniture restoration among them. He told me how pleased he was to have taken a broken stained glass door panel and modified the intact portion to create a window light to go above a door frame. It's great the church has such all round capable people in its service.
Over the weekend I was asked if I could do a funeral in a fortnight's time. I was busy with funerals when I returned home from Malaga in the summer. I may well be busy again now we approach the threshold of winter.
The weekend rain and cold has changed many trees that remained green until lately giving them extra shades of yellow and gold to add to the reds and browns. Utterly lovely when the sun shines. This long drawn out and fairly mild autumn has been quite spectacular, but even the best of photos doesn't fully capture this.
Hot on the heels of Rachel's birthday last Friday, today is Jasmine's birthday. She's twelve already. We spoke to her on WhatsApp just before bed when Rachel was driving her home from school. She was having some friends over in their evening to celebrate with her. It's sad we see so little of her.
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