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Thread: An Update
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Wood
The Milkman of Human Kindness
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Hi, I'm Wood. I've had an account on the Ship of Fools forums in its various incarnations since 1999.
I haven't posted here for a long time, although I've been lurking, on and off. The last time I posted anything in any volume was in February 2011 when I started a thread based around my leaving of the evangelical Baptist church of which I had been a member for 16 years.
In the thread, I made reference to "joining the Anglicans."
I thought that those of you who remember me might like to know what happened next. So. This is what happened: we stayed there, in the local Anglican church, for almost two years. In that time, I healed, but at the same time my family found it hard to integrate. My eldest boy had only one other kid in Sunday school with him, and Mrs Wood found it hard to be in the sort of church where you could sit opposite someone in a pew for twenty years and not ever speak to them (me, I thought it was perfect because I never wanted to speak to anyone in a church ever again).
We were OK, basically. In January 2013, though, the issue that caused me to leave my previous church came up in the pulpit, although I had always thought it would not. And Mrs Wood's dissatisfaction came to a breaking point - she had been in a housegroup for more than six months and still had people asking her what she did for a living. She said, how about we try the church that she went to as a student (which, incidentally, is the church long-standing shipmate Chalky still is part of).
So we did. I was apprehensive to begin with, but the church welcomed us. I made it clear to the elders why I left my old baptist church and they were fine with it - there are actually gay people in the congregation who are welcomed and allowed to take full part.
More than that, it's made my faith grow again. My experience in the Anglican church was one of healing. It made me not want to avoid church, it helped me to sit quietly, to listen, to hear God. And this church now has made me part of the family. I wouldn't have been able to go there were it not for my time at the Anglican church. We made the right decisions, but we needed to find a home. And I think we have one.
They've even had me preaching. I never thought that would happen again.
In the last three years life has been sweet. I was appointed Artist in Residence at my alma mater; I have been published, been on stage, organised events, taught, and I'm writing a comic book now.
So... yeah. Life, eh?
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Narcissism.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Hey there, Woodrow! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Jane R
Shipmate
# 331
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Glad to hear you've found a spiritual home
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Thanks for that - hearing people's different journeys always intrigues me.
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Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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Good to see you mate. Glad things are going so very much better.
Do you intend to stick around a while?
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Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.
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Wood
The Milkman of Human Kindness
# 7
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
Good to see you mate. Glad things are going so very much better.
Do you intend to stick around a while?
Oh, you never know.
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Narcissism.
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RooK
1 of 6
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[Perks up]
Comic book, you say?
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
Good to see you mate.
Perhaps this needs a comma?
But more importantly... welcome back, Wood!
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"...that is generally a matter for Pigwidgeon, several other consenting adults, a bottle of cheap Gin and the odd giraffe."
~Tortuf
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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Wood - excellent to see you back, and glad that your journeying has lead you to a good place.
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Blog
Music for your enjoyment
Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Wood
The Milkman of Human Kindness
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quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
[Perks up]
Comic book, you say?
Yeah. When my artist has finished Issue Zero, and we're in a place to preview it, I'll tell you more.
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Narcissism.
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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Ah, Mr Wood. Nice to have to back, to have you back, nice, Sir! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
This of course reminds me of: quote:
You can't beat wood.
[ 10. September 2014, 18:06: Message edited by: Wesley J ]
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Barnabas62
Shipmate
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Another very pleased Shipmate.
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Who is it that you seek? How then shall we live? How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
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Dafyd
Shipmate
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And I was just saying that I've notched up a higher post count on the Ship than Wood has, which feels Wrong.
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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Matt Black
Shipmate
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Welcome back!
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"Protestant and Reformed, according to the Tradition of the ancient Catholic Church" - + John Cosin (1594-1672)
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Wood
The Milkman of Human Kindness
# 7
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quote:
Originally posted by ChastMastr:
Please check out my comics thread in Heaven!
Er? I don't see no comics thread...
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Narcissism.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Check again! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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Pleased to see you back and especially that you're happy now.
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Nicolemr
Shipmate
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Good to see you again!
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On pilgrimage in the endless realms of Cyberia, currently traveling by ship. Now with live journal!
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Good to hear your update, hope things work out well for you. Guess we're all on quite a journey through this thing called 'life'.
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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Glad to see you back, be it for a short or a long time! Your contributions were ever a highlight of my early years aboard this vessel ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Hail Gallaxhar
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Wood
The Milkman of Human Kindness
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quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Glad to see you back, be it for a short or a long time! Your contributions were ever a highlight of my early years aboard this vessel
Although I suspect people are beginning to remember the reason for the "Wood gives you splinters" line that people used to wheel out at ship meets...
[ 16. September 2014, 16:38: Message edited by: Wood ]
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Narcissism.
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Pyx_e
Quixotic Tilter
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Wood who?
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It is better to be Kind than right.
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Gee D
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Wood:
quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
Glad to see you back, be it for a short or a long time! Your contributions were ever a highlight of my early years aboard this vessel
Although I suspect people are beginning to remember the reason for the "Wood gives you splinters" line that people used to wheel out at ship meets...
The My Word story: Splinter in the Arse, set in the Trojan horse.
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Not every Anglican in Sydney is Sydney Anglican
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Wood! It's so good to see you posting again!
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