Study - in more senses than one!

A day in the village today with very little movement outside the house. Peter came over from Hove to check out the foundations of our garage for the extension work and then spent the rest of the day re-fitting our family room wardrobes so that the three doors slide on three separate rails to provide easier and wider opening - three doors on two rails left only very narrow gaps. A great success for which we really thank him. I spent the morning and a couple of hours this afternoon clearing out the study. There is still much work to be done on this but I have reduced the number of boxes/crates and have more floor space to enable me to soon make a start on the shelves. I have quite a bit of confidential material (Complex and home finances) which need to be disposed of very carefully. I also cleared quite a number of papers off my desk. I spent another two hours today down at Richard's for a Standing Committee meeting to discuss various church issues and set an agenda for the Parochial Church Council meeting next week. We need to tackle the thorny subject of growing the church and leadership within the parish. Tonight we started to study Revelation 4-22. Six of us met in the House Group and we read and studied chapters 4 and 5. Some very taxing questions - particularly surrounding symbolism within the church. Following on from the lecture last night in Marlborough it is interesting just how similar are the problems and issues in both freemasonry and the church. If only some Christians knew what an affinity there is with freemasonry and not try and see it as some Satanic organisation. I firmly believe that they are compatible and many men of the cloth have risen to prominence in freemasonry.