Living It

In case you have not noticed.... If I am a diamond.... I am an uncut one. I call a spade a spade and I wish at times I could intellectually argue theology and be a great orator but the truth is the older I get the more I don't know. When I was young I wore a prolife pin badge of baby feet on my school blazer. Now although I am still pro- life, I also see that the world is not black and white like that. Some of my friends might be aghast at that statement but the reality is, I would not condemn someone for what is a very hard decision for anyone to make. There has been a surge of historical complaints made in this "Me too" era. For every brave woman that has come forward (or man for that matter) dozens remain silenced. Again some people may shout and say that you must come forward and ethically how can you not..... but the reality its not that simple. Non disclosures, fear and the shear Pandora's box of past life haunt people daily. Power, control, surviv...

Do you ever get that feeling where you look at life and say What? Then there are other days where you just know you just smile and know this is alright. Life can be in utter chaos with people having a real go at you but you still know that you are in the palm of God's hand. You can yearn after things of course and you could wish for more stability but sometimes there is gold in instability. Facebook reminders can be weird. The other day I scrolled through memories of that day and saw the statement Passion and Purpose. To someone re reading that memory that statement could mean anything.  I however know that statement referred to a time when a local pastor invited me to speak at an event. I never got many of these opportunities, not even in my own church, so I made sure I said yes. I spoke about knowing your call and about finding that part of your inner being that when you connect with God you passion envelopes you.  Its those visions and dreams tha...

People are different. 10 people could listen to a sermon or a public speaker and you could easily have 10 if not more opinions by the end of it. A facebook friend could quote the Bible at me on their thoughts on evangelism and I could quote something back that backs my style of evangelism. Yesterday we took the kids to Glasgow and a street preacher was giving it his best. I don't really like street preaching. The kids were somewhat bemused by this man shouting at people with his Bible in hand.  Standing on step ladders with a sign round them he preached it big time. After about 10 or 15 minutes he came to a close, changed his tone from yelling and spoke normally and proceeded to invite people to church where he assured them of a warm welcome. As a Christian, I was rather surprised. Why would anyone want to attend after a rant like that? I sometimes have "debates" with fellow Christians about their attitude that seems rather aggressive preaching to me and the...

Sometimes I wake up and I know I need to write. It's a strange thing, as I know I am not one that has a huge following - so who would listen. I know that if I am lucky I handful of people may read this. So what is the point? Why should I waste my time doing this? In my Spirit I know I need to write and get this out. I first started to write in the form of poetry. I did not mean it to be poetry, it just came out that way. I know have a bookshelf full of anthologies, each one has my poems in them ... and still few people know that. Poetry in my teens was a way of release. In a way that is what writing does for me. This morning when I woke up and knew I needed to write, I lay in bed for a bit trying to formulate my thoughts as to what I should write, how I should start and what approach I should take. A few thoughts came and if I am honest, my thoughts were like disconnected junk caught up in a tornado. I began to get frustrated with myself, thinking who do you think you...

  It has once again been a while since I have written. Last night as I was scrolling through facebook I noted a post from a friend. It was a shared post which told the story of the Naked Truth legend. Basically the story can be paraphrased like this. There is a conversation between Truth and Lie about the beautiful water before them and Lie persuades truth to join him in the water. Whilst suspicious Truth is persuaded. Lie then jumps out the water and puts on the garments of truth and runs around the world creating havoc in the name of truth. Meanwhile the Naked truth is exposed and not recognised as Truth is scoffed at and berated. The Naked Truth. There is a lot to mull over in that. So often we see a small glimpse of a picture and make a false assumption of someone based on what we think we know of them. It is so easy to get that wrong, as so often we do not know who has bullied who or just how far someone has been pushed to get to the point where they rea...

It's been a funny old year..... At the tail end of last year (2017) I got a prophetic word from reliable friends that this year would be a year of change.... but not in the way I thought. It was nearly a year after mum's death and I was beginning to feel more positive. Then came this word... You will need to go through a process, your instinct will be to walk away BUT don't, go through the process but there will be a time of endings. Boy was that true. I can honestly say that is a good summary of my year. Horrendous is an understatement. 24 hrs before this word I was told I had to go through a process, I had no real choice in. (I had not said that to those who gave me the word) If it had not been for this word, I would have told people to get lost. In the months that followed I thought about it many times. It very nearly broke me. What is perhaps worse people I trusted stuck the knife in. I got a good old kicking. BUT I am a weeble.... an...