I don't like writing blogs. (Yes, sorry, this is going to start off a bit whiny). I don't like revealing how I feel to the world. Part of that is insecurity, worrying that people will judge what I say or what my stance is on something. Part of that is not feeling I have enough of substance to say.

I used to write a blog on the website for my production business, and it became the most empty, philosophical, nothing-of-substance waste of time for both me and the reader. With this blog I never wanted to do the same.

I also tend to think too much of what the reader wants to hear, and what I don't want to say that I get to the point, where I am now, that I'm just considering not continuing and not publishing this entry. In fact this is already the second attempt because I didn't like the first one. But I believe that this is something that I should do, and will try and do more of.

In a lot of ways life feels a lot more normal in Mallorca, as if we are almost out of the other side of the pandemic. Masks are only necessary in my daily life when I use public transport or go in to a shop. Pubs are open, though the clubs are still closed, so although things aren't completely normal, it feels like opportunities for outreach are much more available now.

Recently the Santa Ponsa Community Church hosted a missionary group that did ministry on the streets in Arenal, a place dubbed the German Magaluf. Although that name is reductive and not wholly accurate, it gives the right general impression. One night I joined them, and it took me back four years, to being on the streets of Magaluf with the Street Angels. It really opened my eyes to what is possible now in terms of outreach, and has encouraged me to want to step things up a gear.

Writing this blog is a symbolic and literal first step in recommitting myself to outreach. Not to suggest that it hasn't been happening, but the circumstances have meant that it had mostly happened within friendship groups as opposed to "in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there." (Acts 17 vs 17) Although that more general type of outreach isn't the focus of my mission, it is something I have neglected to do and hope to do more of now. However, as Jesus said, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few." And I need to, "Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." (Matthew 9 vs 37-38). A little bit of help would go a long way!