Hello? Anyone home?

I find myself in a place of almost total uninspiration. I'm avoiding most news and current affairs blogs at the moment because I just find myself intensely irritated, and that's not good place to be. So many of my normal online haunts just depress me to the point of flatness. Right now, the idea of perusing a site like Slice feels like deciding to spend half an hour washing my hands in the toilet bowl.

Kim at The Upward Call wrote something the other day about losing confidence in blogging, and I relate to that. I had a post prepared about a quote from my old church website. I've shelved it for future reference as I'm just a bit weary of looking around and seeing Christians tearing strips off one another all over the place.

In our own life circumstance, we've made the very difficult decision to begin attending a closer church for the forseeable future. It's a fairly traditional Anglican church, but it is 7 minutes drive away, which means I don't arrive in tears. It's not an ideal church, but in all reality, the church we have been attending isn't one of those. (Clue: 'cos they don't exist) Witton has the best regular preaching I've ever heard in my life - but you know what? What good are fantastic sermons that you never hear? What good is it to have a 'good church' that you can never get to, and because of that, your children don't attend regularly either?

I'm willing to bet there will be things about the new place that will drive me absolutely nuts - but right now, my husband and I have come to the conclusion that it is more important to be part of a church community, to be involved in some sensible service, and to hear the gospel (which they do, thankfully, preach there - the first sermon we ever heard there was a paraphrase of something from St Augustine, and it was short, but good) with our children.

So ultimately, I suppose that I'm trying to shift into a mindset that isn't overly sensitive about differences. I'm not talking about checking out discernment at the door, but I do think it's poor form to attend a new church with a beady-eye on the lookout for problems. Anyway, if there's a bunfight to be had in the comments, go ahead. But this muffin is, for the moment at least, an Anglican Muffin.