This week, I am running a seminar examining Forgiveness with a group of about 35 people. We’re trying to ask questions about what it looks like in an individual, and whether the individual experience of forgiveness can mean anything for our wider community here in Belfast…Asking questions today, listening to very honest reflections, I am [...]
Archive for December 3rd, 2007
you gotta rock yourself a little harder
Posted in thanksgiving on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sharing a Joke
Posted in musings, thanksgiving, tagged bad news, good news, jokes on December 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sharing or receiving bad news is not the easiest and I’m becoming skilled at both this Advent. What has been warming has been to have that news shared within a friendship, with people you know and trust. To share and receive hope. Even today.
In my experience of recent weeks women are better at it. They [...]
results
Posted in thanksgiving, tagged exam results on December 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
this time last week i was sitting my first set of exams in Sullivan Upper. finally i got my results today. i still have to get results for a number of subjects. i got my science results, my french results and my geography results. i’m quite pleased as i got above average in all [...]
Births and Deaths
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was reminded in church yesterday that a psychologist once commented that two of the earliest words we learn as children are the words hello and goodbye, I had three baptisms in church yesterday saying hello as a church family to these kids and then we also had an act of memory for those we [...]
lost (again) and found (again)
Posted in thanksgiving on December 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I dropped my purse in a shop on Saturday, only realising when I went to pay for my goods that I didn’t have it. I thought I’d left it somewhere else but while I was on my way to look another customer came running after me to say that she had found it.
Which reminded me [...]
watching
Posted in rebukes on December 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
All day long I’ve been hoping to see Incarnation or at least John the Baptist. Late this morning I turned on ESPN for background noise. A sports news program, Outside the Lines, was on, focussing on American football players and prayer.
Those of you in the rest of the world may not realize this but what [...]
Give the ultimate gift of Mac and Leopard ?
Posted in musings on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m fond of Apple – both the fruit and the makers of shiny white/brushed aluminium technology widgets. But this morning I got a promotional email from Apple, with a subject line of
Fun, useful, well-engineered, stylish … but not ultimate. The subject line grated as I read it.
I can think of a number of alternatives for [...]
monday
Posted in anticipation, musings, thanksgiving, tagged expectation, gratitude, simple gifts on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Got up in the dark, too dark, leaving the light off to avoid disturbing my wife. Then somewhere during showering, shaving, medicating it begins to dawn. I have easy access to light, heat, temperature controlled water in quantities which could save a village just to wash a body that is not dirty, medicine to control the [...]
london yesterday
Posted in musings on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
looking for the gate for the Gatwick flight home. To Belfast.Its twenty to eight in the evening and the gate hasnt been revealed. The flight is scheduled to go at a quarter to eight. Then, at quarter to eight it pops up on the screen.
BOARDING AT GATE 10.
i walk slowly with the crowd.
one minute later [...]
Yesterday
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We peer out our rain-battered window and witness the last leaves of a brave Magnolia finally surrender to Winter’s chilly wind. Inside, our spirits are warmed by the lights of a newly erected Christmas Tree (B&Q £14.99!), the flames of a phoenix fire and the simple and maybe niaive first film of Christmas 2007.
“The Preachers Wife” [...]
