I am hoping that those who come along, might use this blog as a forum to post views and ideas week by week. We'll see how it goes. Week One is Travelling Companions, and each week has a theme to ponder on Ascents and Descents.
Meanwhile a little preview from the course booklet 'Exploring the Void' by Nicholas and Judith Calver:
This course is about helping us to see that our journey is also Jesus' journey and that his journey is also ours. It follows a film about a real-life journey that two climbers - Simon Yates and Joe Simpson - made, accompanied by Richard Hawking, someone they bumped into on the way. Their journey, although its outward focus was on the ascent - and descent of Peru's Siula Grande, was also for each of them an inward journey tht challenged and changed them in a number of ways.
As a follower of this course you too are embarking on a journey. Though your outward journey may never involve climbing a Peruvian mountain, your inner journey may, at times in your life, follow a similiar path to that of those three climbers. Your fellow travellers will be not only your fellow course participants but alos all those with whom you come into contact outside these sessions as you go about your daily routine, and maybe from your past as well.
Above all, what matters is not getting to the end but how you get there. Remember that this course is a journey, not a destination.
