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Covid Tales 2020 (xiii) : The End Of The World As We Know It?

June 14, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

  Just over three months ago today, the world as we knew it ended for me personally, and within a couple of weeks, most of you too. I flew home from […]

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Beauty, Christian, Coronavirus, Creativity, faith, Mental Health, Spirituality

Covid Tales (xi): Generational Stillness

May 9, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

HERE’S AN over 100-year-old Irish oak chair I had the priviledge of restoring this past week or so of further pandemic lockdown in Northern Ireland. It was thrown out for […]

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Beauty, Christian, Coronavirus, Creativity, peace, Spirituality

Covid 2020 (ix): Two Years On

April 19, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

EXACTLY two years ago last night, I had the now infamous motorcycle accident in Redding, Northern California, where I was blessed to be living at the time. I shared very […]

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California, Christian, faith, prayer, Spirituality, Thankfulness, Travel, USA

Covid 2020 Tales (v) : Good Friday Bad Friday

April 10, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

SO my midweek post became a Good Friday post.  Sorry about that. My heart feels heavy today and my body and mind are quite tired. But I’m not complaining. It’s a blessing […]

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Christian, Easter, Spirituality

Covid 2020 Tales (iv)

April 5, 2020by emeraldscribe 2 Comments

TODAY’S POST almost hasn’t happened. But I decided to keep the discipline and fulfill what I wrote I would last time, of posting again “on Sunday”. One of the good […]

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Christian, Coronavirus, faith, prayer, 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

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

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

Further Reflections on an Eventful Year:

June 26, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

HAVING SHOCKED you with my photos last time, I hope you’ve realized by now my intentional opposite spirit to the majority of social media, (which is often aimed at presenting […]

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Beauty, California, compassion, Czech Republic, faith, healing, honesty, Mental Health, Spirituality, Thankfulness, Travel, USA, vulnerability, Writing

Boots from a notable night

June 14, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

It’s true a picture is worth a thousand words. Many people may not have believed the post I shared on 2nd May, sharing a tiny 10% snippet of what happened […]

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California, Christian, faith, honesty, Spirituality, USA, vulnerability, Writing

Whitetails and Open Skies

August 15, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

AFTER a semi-conscious break from posting anything on social media in recent months, I felt to write a wee random blog article this week.   I’ve just had a quietly […]

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Christian, Creativity, Spirituality

Good grief: Good Friday

April 15, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

THIS very afternoon just two weeks ago I went round to pray for a local father figure, someone I respect and cared for very much, a real rock solid background […]

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cancer, Christian, faith, Spirituality

Beauty and the beast

August 29, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

So I stepped out in faith at the beginning of the summer months and and then wrote the now infamous intentionally honest, vulnerable blog post I did. I have not […]

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Beauty, compassion, Creativity, faith, honesty, newspaper journalism, Photography, Spirituality, summer, Travel, Writing

Thursday Poetry Corner Wk 3: ‘Letting Go’

August 4, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Photo: Seppo Rinta-Kauppila Letting go Like a fallen Winter storm Blown through the shattered debris Wind swept, ‘neath the trees I unwind the remnant pieces Unyielding, yet broken down. How […]

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Beauty, Photography, poetry, Spirituality, Writing

Coming to the end of a long month and long year…

December 23, 2014by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

It’s Christmas Eve Eve, and I’ve been pretty busy since I last posted on here, writing for the local newspaper I am a journalist for, and other stuff I’ve been […]

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Spirituality

A penny for your thoughts: Father D’Arcy inspired insights

July 28, 2014by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

In today’s Belfast Telegraph, (the largest selling daily newspaper in Northern Ireland), a stark interview with one of Ireland’s best known priests covers a double page spread near the centre […]

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Spirituality

California Capers Part 8: Redding to San Francisco

February 2, 2014by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

After a remarkable and thoroughly enjoyable final few days in Redding, attending the Randy Clarke healing and impartation conference organised by Bethel Church, I am now at the beginning of […]

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Spirituality

Rudolph, Elves and Angels

December 13, 2013by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

An unwelcome, angry-sounding lung infection has lured me into to a forced and undesired few days in bed, with the end result that thoughts have been plenty and turned towards […]

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Spirituality

The remarkable story of my brother’s malaria healing: a different type of homework

December 4, 2013by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Last night I had a 14 year-old-girl come up to me and say, “Do you know anything about this?!” Immediately I looked at the highlighted piece of homework and recognized […]

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Spirituality

This is what th…

November 24, 2013by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will […]

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Spirituality

Friends & beauty 1

November 22, 2013by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Teresa of Avila (St Teresa of Avila) is famous for having said to God in her typical blunt, forthright manner, ” If this is how you treat your friends, no […]

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Spirituality

Is Jesus relevant to the 21st century ‘poor’ ?

July 1, 2013by emeraldscribe 3 Comments

————————————————————————————————————– I wrote this article summer 2013, and am reminded of it today, after a church service I attended in Northern Ireland which brought me close to tears with gratitude […]

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Christian, compassion, Mental Health, Spirituality

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