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Who is Nat?

My name is Natalie Husk, although most people call me Nat (except my parents!). I was born and raised in Cornwall and am proud of it! I have always been involved in the church, whether going to my local village chapel in Common Moor, joining with bus loads from Cornwall at MAYC events, helping at the District Children’s Holiday or even attending Synod a few times! I am very thankful to the Cornwall District, the Liskeard & Looe Circuit and of course Common Moor chapel for being such valuable parts in my journey of faith.

Today I live in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, where I work as a youth worker for the Methodist Church. I run after school clubs, youth clubs, a youth fellowship, do outreach work and organise trips away. Not long ago I was asked by a youth group, to give them a weekly topic for reflection, an email containing something to focus them on God for the week. So every week I sit at my computer and write down my thoughts! It started quite small, with just the young people receiving them, and now lots of people of all ages find my thoughts in their email inbox!

It is a huge privilege for me to find that people enjoy and are challenged by what I have written, especially that I can now share what God has done for me with those who walked with me at the beginning of my journey. Ultimately these reflections are aimed at the young people I now work with, but if God can speak to others through them, how great is that!!

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December
Advice
I Love You

November
38. Bald is beautiful
37. Fire
36 Sleep
35 Music

October 2006
34. Stupidity
33. Painting
32. mmm Pasties
31. Built to last
30. Phlegm

September 2006
29. Meetings
28. Crime thoughts
27. Colours
26. Unwanted guests

August 2006
25. Comparison
24. Waterproof Mascara
23. Tasty MSG
22. Helplessness

July 2006
21. Attraction
20. Hair
19. Hero
18. Laughter
17. Factoids

June 2006
16. Voiceless
15. Bruises (ouch)
14. Sunburn
13. Mistakes

May 2006
12. Arms
11. Willow Tree
10. Eurovision
9. Chicken
8. Addictions

April 2006
7. Age
6. Celebrities
5. Language

March 2006
4. Commonwealth Games
3. Decisions
2. Drizzle
1. Trelawney

TASTY MSG

I love Chinese food. I could eat it above most other foods. It is yummy and I was delighted when a friend recently invited me to a birthday meal at an all you can eat Chinese buffet. The prospect of plates piled high with delicious food made me smile and lick my lips. But is it the actual food I love or is it what lies hidden within it? MSG, E621, mi-won, or its full title being Monosodium glutamate.

MSG (so much easier to type than the full name – yes I am lazy!) is a flavour enhancer and is found in a lot of Asian cuisine. It is known to have some addictive qualities making you continue to eat the food even after you are full (making the all you can eat Chinese buffet a potentially stomach popping experience!). You just can’t seem to get enough. Sometimes when I am at a particularly high point in my faith or I’m at a great Christian event and God feels never more than 1mm away, I get that same feeling of not being able to get enough of Him. I want Him in every aspect of my life and I make promises and pacts that I will never stop being this close to God. But inevitably I do stop being that close, I break my promises and I get times when I can’t even feel God let alone get enough of Him. If only there was some way to get a faith enhancer, the MSG of Christianity. We would always be in that state of happiness and spiritual bliss. We would constantly feel filled with the Holy Spirit and yet we would always seek more.

As great as that sounds God doesn’t need enhancing. God is perfect. I’m always looking for quick fixes to problems, not wanting to wait for anything. I want a perfect relationship with God but without the hard work (lazy again!) and more importantly without the pain and hardship that goes with it. As great as MSG is in enhancing flavour and making food yummy, it doesn’t truly satisfy. What is so satisfying about the high points with God are that to experience them we’ve had to experience the low points too. It is during these low points, these God famines, that we grow and learn. It is at these low points that we draw closer to God often without realising. Without that our faith is shallow and empty.

So as I stuff my face my prawn toast, Peking duck, crispy noodles, and black bean sauce I remember that God has given me the choice to worship and hang out with Him, and I am not blindly following him because I can’t stop myself. I remember that I love Him and I know that my sometimes distant and irregular contact I make with Him is 100% real with nothing added or enhanced – what can be better than that?

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