Covid Tales 2020 (xiii) : The End Of The World As We Know It?
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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Covid Tales (xi): Generational Stillness
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 […]
Covid 2020 (ix): Two Years On
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 […]
Covid 2020 Tales (v) : Good Friday Bad Friday
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 […]
Covid 2020 Tales (iv)
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 […]
Suffering Amidst The Miraculous
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 […]
Sunday Scribe: Sharing in Sufferings
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 […]
Sixteen Weeks
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 […]
Over 3,400 Fire Fighters Continue to Battle Redding Blaze
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 […]
Further Reflections on an Eventful Year:
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 […]
Boots from a notable night
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 […]
Whitetails and Open Skies
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 […]
Good grief: Good Friday
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 […]
Beauty and the beast
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 […]
Thursday Poetry Corner Wk 3: ‘Letting Go’
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 […]
Coming to the end of a long month and long year…
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 […]
A penny for your thoughts: Father D’Arcy inspired insights
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 […]
California Capers Part 8: Redding to San Francisco
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 […]
Rudolph, Elves and Angels
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 […]
The remarkable story of my brother’s malaria healing: a different type of homework
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 […]
This is what th…
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 […]
Friends & beauty 1
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 […]
Is Jesus relevant to the 21st century ‘poor’ ?
————————————————————————————————————– 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 […]
