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
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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

Attraction

 What do you attract? What finds you attractive? For me I think it’s dodgy old men and snails! If I ever venture into a public house (a rarity as you know!) you can guarantee that the men-folk I attract is the drunk, old, weirdo (yes, I know they are loved by God, but still not my choice of a date!) who can’t keep his hands to himself or speak without spitting and slurring at the same time! Then every time I walk out of my house I inevitably squish numerous snails which are lined up on my path, obviously with a death wish else they’d move to safer locales.

 I recently went with a friend to the nearby sculpture park where we picnicked and wandered around the grounds. It was a lovely day and the flies and wasps were out in force. My friend, who is quite a bit taller than me, started complaining about the flies as we walked through a particular field. It was at this point that I looked up and saw a black cloud above his head – no seriously, the poor guy had a swarm of trillions of tiny flies above his head! As he walked to and fro trying to avoid them, the fly cloud followed his every move! Unfortunately I was no help whatsoever as I was bent over double in pain. The pain from laughing so hard! It was absolutely hilarious. The harder my friend tried to fight off the flies, the harder I laughed, and the more cross he got, ending with him marching off across the field to wooded safety, with me desperately trying to walk behind him as I chuckled hysterically!  

Sometimes we find ourselves, like my friend, surrounded by the things we don’t want around us – temptation, sin, negative influences, anger, hatred. However hard we try to fight them off, with a military precision they seem to follow our every step. In an attempt to rid ourselves of these pesky issues we can become disorientated and lost, not sure of the route to safety. But how did we get in to these situations to begin with? Why is it that only the dodgy guys want to chat me up, and not the nice ones? Why am I the only house on my street cursed by a community of snails, when everyone else is snail free? Why did the flies like my friend so much, when I was there as well?  

What do you attract? Is it positive things? Smiles, laughter, compliments, love, friendship?

What finds you attractive? Is it negative things? Hatred, anger, tears, insults, rejection?

I used to think that the things that were attracted to us were the things we were giving off – being nice to people meant they were nice back. But life doesn’t work like that and great people have rubbish things around them through no fault of their own. I then looked at Jesus who attracted the worst of the worst and yet he gave out pure love, so I’m now just plain confused! Maybe it’s not what is attracted to us, but how we deal with that attraction that's important. Do we follow the example of Jesus and respond with love or do we like my friend, run to a place of safety and back into our comfort zone? Perhaps that is the challenge of the Christian life, not running away at times of difficulty, when surrounded by negativity, but allowing the light of Jesus to work through us to transform it into something positive.  

So look around you and see what is attracted to you and watch how you respond – is there anything you need to change? I suggest to my friend that it’s his hair gel that needs changing, at least if he wants to go back to the sculpture park!

 All my love, Nat xxx