Shoes

from nakedpastor

Thoughts

interesting post by comedian and broadcaster Dave Gorman.

I love water shoots

Anyone know if this is fake?

A proper return

Blogging has taken a large back seat over the past months and i am still not sure if i have the motivation, energy or enthusiasm for it in the coming months. It has been a very hard few months, blogging at this time didn’t feel of much use although my journal has been an important companion.

While I’ve been away the major news has been that my mum passed away about a month ago now. Her battle with leukemia ended fairly suddenly over the course of a weekend. Words cannot express how it feels seeing a shadow of the person you once new lying in a hospital bed barely recognisable. The funeral was a lovely occasion however as we remebered and celebrated the fact of a new risen body and the hope of new heaven and earth.

The things around this seem a little insignificant in comparison but have none the less been important. My new role as volunteer coordinator with oasis is going well. We have a new team of 4 working with us who i am responsible for looking after as well as the other volunteers involved in our work. At church we have emplyed an associate youth worker to work with me as well as a new gap year student and things seems to moving along quite nicely.

Coming out

Great pic here

wonder if that title might give me a few unexpected hits!

Defenseless

A child as an adult you stand,
Heals, push-chair, a mask made with gossip
Beneath the surface what would be revealed?
Hurt, pain, disappointment or envy
All this quite possibly.
As you and baby stand seemingly defenseless against the world
I still believe you model hope, courage and love
Above all things love
You are not alone, You are not alone

Plain and Simple

Plain and simple really, that’s me
A good books great but the TV just fine.
Some see me read the times
But really the Daily Mirror’s more mine.

Watching sport or a less than witty retort
Plain and simple that’s me.
Champagne and caviar might give the right look
But sausage, beans and chips is more what I cook.

Some say I look trendy,
But really spending money sends me into a frenzy.
Opera may be cosy
But walking around the park for me is just rosy.
Plain and simple that’s me.

Priorities

Kids, bids, chinese ribs
Strife, life, also the wife
Books, looks, learning to cook
Walking, talking, sometimes sulking
Shops, chops, drinking pop
Dreaming, scheming, even cleaning
Fishing for cod, walking the dog,
all these things
Sorry God

Hope

Most of us have soap
Most of us own a coat
But do we all have hope?

Some of us love to swing on ropes
Some of us love to smoke dope
But do we all have hope?

A few own a boat
Even fewer have a moat
But do we all have hope?

I hope I will get it
I hope it will be ok
Is this really hope?

Life at times can feel like a slippery slope
We all need to have hope 
Do you have hope?

A space for solitude in all

In every man lies a zone of solitude that no human intimacy can fill: and there God encounters us.

Brother Roger of Taize

A place where God encounters us, that is truly mind blowing