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Covid 2020 Tales

March 26, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

FROM THE beauty of rural Northern Ireland, I write to you from the ugliness of covid-19 quarantine, in what already feels a bit like a strange prison type scenario after […]

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Spirituality

Suffering Amidst The Miraculous

January 12, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Following on from my sporadic social media post last Sunday night, I was not planning to write a blog post, but I felt it warranted it after its response. So […]

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Spirituality

NI citizens are stirring against new extreme abortion law

September 8, 2019by emeraldscribe 1 Comment

Having had a break from social media completely for a wee while over the Summer, and an intentional pull-back from everything to focus on one or two specific things in […]

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Spirituality

Shocking Facts About Northern Ireland’s New Extreme Abortion Regime

August 4, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

In mid June, when I was sick with a lower respiratory infection, something hideous and horrendous, as far as I’m concerned, was introduced in a completely sudden, shocking seemingly pretty […]

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Spirituality

CHRISTIANS STILL HOMELESS TWO YEARS ON FROM THE MARAWI SIEGE IN THE PHILIPPINES

June 9, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Two years after Islamic militants laid siege to the Philippine city of Marawi, Christians are still living in temporary shelters despite being desperate to return to their communities. On May […]

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Spirituality

Nine Months On From Vietnam

May 26, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

On the eve of American Memorial day, and nine months on from a far-from-dull work-related trip to Northern Vietnam, I felt led tonight to share a few photos from the […]

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Asia, Beauty, Coffee, Photography, Spirituality, Travel, USA

Indian Elections: If BJP wins, Laws Preventing Conversion Away From Hinduism May Increase

May 19, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

This Thursday will see the results announced of India’s largest ever expression of democracy. However, what might it mean for some of the minority religious groups in the country? India’s […]

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India, Spirituality

Family or Death: The Extreme Choice facing Many Christian Women

May 12, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

During Ramadan, the pressure on secret Christians in Islamic societies is more intense than usual. As the Muslim world celebrates Ramadan, (from the evening of 5th May until 4th June […]

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Spirituality

Sunday Scribe: Sharing in Sufferings

April 28, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Not a catchy title tonight. But suffering is real on planet earth. If you’ve lived here any length of time, chances are that you will have tasted some suffering at […]

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Spirituality

If God is So Good & Jesus Really Rose, Why Are Most NI Christians So Powerless & Prayerless?

April 21, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

It’s Easter, yet I’m playing ‘Devil’s advocate’ a little here. I’m poking a little at Easter from within. Today on Easter Sunday, I thought I’d scribble a quick bit on […]

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Spirituality

Palm Sunday

April 14, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

So just before Palm Sunday comes and goes, a quick word about Jesus on that day. The original Palm Sunday The week before being sent to his death on a […]

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Spirituality

Sunday Scribbles on Mary & Martha

April 7, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Most of you reading this know the story of Mary and Martha in the Bible. I won’t take time to write all about the details of it – you’re more […]

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Spirituality

The Best And Worst of Times

April 1, 2019by emeraldscribe 2 Comments

WITH THE best of intentions, I planned to write a further blog post last weekend, but amidst a blessed and busy, redemptive God-gifted trip back to my unplanned, second home […]

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Spirituality

Sunday Scribe: Redemption

March 17, 2019by emeraldscribe 1 Comment

Redemption is a big word. I’m experiencing a, “wee bit” of it in these days. From a not-so-easy 2018 in Redding, and certainly not an easy ending, Father God has […]

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Spirituality

Authenticity in an Era of Fakeness

March 10, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

We hear a lot these days about “fake news”, which has surfaced only in the Trump era. I’m not a big fan of that falsely created term, but that’s not […]

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Spirituality

Sunday Scribe…

March 3, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Sunday Scribing skipped the past week or two. Will endeavour to resume again next week. Check back then. Meanwhile here’s a random soul-soothing photograph of Fairhead, Ballycastle, County Antrim, in […]

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Spirituality

Sunday Scribe

February 17, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

The article I’ve linked to below is one I scribbled in passionate frustration two weeks shy of two years ago. It’s caught my attention this weekend for how much of […]

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Spirituality

Sunday Scribe: Sheep Identity

February 10, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Just a few thoughts for tonight. I’ve been thinking since a few weeks ago about a talk I heard at a Church recently in Northern Ireland. The crux of it […]

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Christian, faith, Love, passion, Spirituality, Writing

Sunday Scribe: Rediscovering Bone Broth

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Let’s talk about bone broth.  (Not the kind of article you were perhaps expecting, but variety is the spice of life and all that).  As I continue to recover from […]

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Creativity, Cuisine, Culture, Food, northern ireland, Spirituality, Winter, Writing

Sunday Scribe: 27th January 2019

January 27, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Believe it or not this wee blog effort experiment is 6 years old later this year. Six years have passed in the blink of an eye, like a bullet plucked […]

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Spirituality

Thanksgiving 2017

November 22, 2018by emeraldscribe 1 Comment

No, you didn’t read that wrongly. Tonight I’m thinking lots of USA, and decided just to come out of recent busyness in life and rest from online activity, to remember […]

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Spirituality

All The Best

August 28, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Time has run away. The bright Summer evenings are faded. This will be my last blog post I said I’d do over July and August from Northern Ireland. This past […]

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Spirituality

Open Skies and Hungry Hearts

August 16, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

I happen to have just turned on the TV a short while ago, and someone else had left it on a channel 65, “TBNUK” – the Christian channel now available […]

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Spirituality

Sixteen Weeks

August 8, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Sixteen weeks on from the Redding accident I decided to vulnerably share about in April, the sun is gratefully able to be felt once again on my skin. Time can […]

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Beauty, California, Christian, Creativity, faith, honesty, northern ireland, passion, prayer, Spirituality, summer, Travel, USA, vulnerability, Writing

Over 3,400 Fire Fighters Continue to Battle Redding Blaze

July 28, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

My heart is very, very heavy ongoingly today, ever since I discovered almost by chance late on Thursday evening UK time, that my second home of Redding was about to […]

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California, faith, peace, prayer, Spirituality, summer, USA, vulnerability

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