When we took Holy Socks to Keswick, they didn't have the leaflets they are wrapped in now.
They didn't have any identification at all until the lunchtime on the Monday of the first week.
I had a lot of trouble getting them made in time. We didn't give the company long to make them and they were actually delivered to the stand on the first Monday we were there.
We learned a lot from our first outing. One of the main things we learnt was that the little labels weren't going to be enough. They needed a larger leaflet that explained the background to Holy Socks.
I believe that God wastes nothing. Scroll back a couple of years to the time when I was doing "The Life of Prayer" course as a follow up to the Foundation Course with the Scottish Churches Open College.
We had to do three projects. I decided to organise a day retreat, and having run from God for nearly 40 years, I decided I would base the retreat around Jonah. Meditations and imaginative contemplation had played a major part in the course and I thought it would be good to include a contemplation in the programme for the day.
Laughter is wonderful but it didn't seem to fit well in a contemplation! I ditched the idea and a friend wrote me a series of stories about a modern day Jonah who ran off in the other direction when he heard God call.
Keswick Convention was featuring the story of Jonah that year and I ripped down to the Post Office in the town and rented one their computers for a wee while and produced our first story leaflet using Tina's edited stories. That was the start of the story leaflets.
I needn't have bothered pushing for the small labels. They weren't going to needed. Of course that lead me to these two questions.
How long to you knock at a door until it opens - when it may never open?
Which is a problem to be persevered with?
Learning to tell the difference is interesting!
