Sunday Sermon: Getting a life!!!

Rembrandt - Return of the Prodigal Son - 1669

Well today is going to be a particularly brief sermon, mainly because I've been very busy of late, but also because I've spent the weekend in Shropshire at a wedding. Ahhh, young love. Any way I've been thinking a bit recently about the fact that as sad as it seems, my Blog has rapidly become a relatively big part of my life. Good grief that makes me sound incredibly sad! I think though I'm mainly indifferent to that fact if I'm honest. But it did lead me to think a lot more clearly about my 'life'. Or perhaps more precisely whether I have a lack of one. I freely admit I'm far too much of a nerd / geek for my own good. In fact if you stand too close to me for any protracted period of time you're more than likely to contract some form of geekitis off of me. Yeah so I used to think I was a pretty normal guy, with a few geeky hobbies and tendencies, you know just an average Joe who still had a life.

However, I have be honest and say that my life probably didn't and still doesn't have that much variety in it in terms of things that entertain me. I used to say 'yeah but I read loads of different types of comic books' or my favourite 'I don't just play Games Workshop games I play other stuff too, I even play board games!' Oh yeah, I'm definitely not a geek me. I'm sure I used to counter further by explaining that I played computer games, and they're mainstream now right? Except I'm not too sure there were ever that many copies of Grandia or Panzer Dragoon Saga ever purchased. What about TV, I like TV too... yeah OK so my top ten favourite TV programs are The X-files (excluding seasons 8 and 9), Babylon 5, Prisoner, Battlestar Galactica (both), Firefly, Futurama, Flight of the Chochords, Spaced and Twin Peaks... good lord this isn't helping me any. Over the years various helpful friends and relatives have told me I need to get a life or get out more, but...
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