remembering the days when we looked deeper into each other.

 #MorningPrayer

Lord Jesus, expand the horizons of our perspective, that we may see not merely with our own vision, but with the eyes of your grace and love. Help us to look beyond the narrow confines of our human comprehension, and grasp the magnitude of your love for all people.

Here above is todays daily prayer that recalls further draws us to remember the days when we looked deeper into each other.

Well shall we talk a little bit about power in the Church and how we may then behave in a privileged way that impacts others .There fore it has to have a barring upon how we treat other people. Now almost everything l write, communicate, or present by media including images. Well its about, me going about faith, theology, music and soulful matters. Everything on this Northern fellas blog is useless and just a ramble from a person of little influence. Also l know this so grateful of you taking them time to view.

If you are so inclined you can watch on free view some Christian programme called A Study In The Word ...Now this is a daily teaching program hosted by Jimmy Swaggart. Throughout the program, associate pastors others join Swaggart in discussing the bible. In 1991, he was found in a car with another suspected prostitute, sparking further chaos for his ministry. he was suspended and defrocked...Marge Simpson had same thing ...or maybe not...

You see privilege it do cost. But it cost the poor more.

Here is the rub...here is my main concern. Here is where l get into trouble...He is still shown grace, tender mercies given more chances. All the time those around him allowed this behaviour with no real consequences.

But here where extra grace extra mercy and extra privilege pay dividends'. His family well the males because there is no evidence of female sin Pentecostal movement he appears to owns ..(oppps sorry belongs to)... Donnie has a broadcast on ..well where do you think?SBN ministries...Gabriel Swaggart preaching etc.. etc...

you see Male, you see power, you see privilege, you don't see

servanthood, relationships or concern for justice. Its like for some in the Authority of the Church these issues don't count.

If l see that if you see that why on earth don't these see this.

SBN Minsistries tune in tomorrow for more lack of concern.

£5 for slice of toast!

The inflation in food prizes is shocking my experience in a cafe in Leeds. Friend got cheapest thing on the menu. £5 slice of toast. Add £4 cup of tea £12 for when additional want a latte coffee. The present we are placed in, surely a struggle for lots of reason. 

Many desire to be free just want about able be existing outside of this undesirable moment.

It's very tough struggle in the last 5 years not sure why the hope is!  seriously not in anyone of the Political parties. People are hurting and got so little it's a vacuum. Now that summertime is nearly over, we are seeing a rise in all energetics fees rising. But it's way above any finances people are gaining. Many sadly are not getting rises. It's very daily struggle.

We are living with the problem created by the political elite who have no concern for actual people they should be supporting.

Give us this day out daily kiss from

Every step, every destination, I love you.

Despite the murderous traditions, I love you.

You are pious, your kisses are your prayer.

You are different, your kisses are your protest.

You are not afraid of love, of hope, of tomorrow.

I kiss you amid the Taliban, you are not afraid!

RAMIN MAZHAR.

Knew a lady used to go stand outside Church when l was in my most formative years. Waiting for her boyfriend who had been killed in the War.
She knew ....told us ..'but l promised once a week to get dressed walk to our meeting place. Wait.' 
 Then l go home.

Found this poem in the end credits of BBC 4 'Kabul' series convoluted but essential disturbing concerning but essential. Tucked away on the schedules of Saturday evening TV viewing but still essential. Painful suppose even hopeless but remaining convoluted disturbing and essential. Here the post plays with our minds telling us how our hearts in a short essay should remain full of hope 

We don't miss enough each day we should kiss someone someone we love should send us kisses and we should gladly receive them. In protesting remaining loving in the very worse on the very worse day kiss and love bring hope and inspire others.

Hate as l said earlier this week begets hate. Kisses promote Love and a desire for kissing.

May God give each person more kisses, give us this day out daily kiss from another!

It's arriving soonish autumnal cold, reflective.

I'm poor,

I was born in the North.

Lived a life trying to battle poverty.

Hate injustice. 

Seen the rich get richer.

Times we are living some say , they say it a plenty, are end times..Did discover at young age that equality was never going to come because I'm poor l Was born in the north.

We struggle, get labelled, but we still inspire despite coming from blighted place. Even on other planets there will be a north. There will be South North divide with Inequality experience by those battling poverty seeking justice. The kids local feels it's ok to raid, hassle, attack baristas at Costa in our city.

I'm poor, l'm from the north, but we had a sense of what is right and wrong . We never stole, we learnt that justice doesn't involve stealing from others.

I'm poor, I'm from the north, but found faith, found different way found a better way.

Beds burn and others create more fires.

Palestinian Authority schoolchildren as young as nine were given maths exercises based on the 7 October Hamas attacks, including questions about the number of Israelis killed, rockets fired, and terrorists sent into Israeli communities.

Hate begets hatred and then begets further hatred then it begets more hatred that moves into place where further hatred ......

Still the beds are burning.

 The Government has pledged to tackle cost of living pressures, with a spokesman stating they are "acting to give consumers breathing space" Many including my humble household is finding energy bills too expensive. This monstrous act of paying over the top energy bills is hurting many.  The energy bills are set to increase to their highest level for three years heading into winter. The poverty issue has been at forefront of any justice issues l have encountered in 45 years plus involved in faith based activist youth work.

I cannot stand this ridiculous situation. Water bills. Gas bills. Food inflation. Diesel costs, household problems they are hitting many. In UK 6 out of 10 young people are experiencing mental health issues. Talking and still working with young people it hurts. Hear disturbing stories. Hope is not evident our Church struggling with food bank stocks more people seeking help. Less giving and costs of building proving difficult to maintain.

The Governments of last 5 decades are still not listening nor do they appear to care. 

Seldom do we look deep enough.

 Whose side was Jesus, called by some itinerant teacher and activist from Nazareth really on?

Can you imagine the horrors of Black people? Snatched from the shores of Africa, shipped like cargo in the hulls of ships, stacked like sardines, in our own waste, thrown off the ship into the ocean if it made economic sense. Beaten, maimed, raped, killed, ripped from the arms of their mothers. Worked like chattel with no pay. Finally emancipated then lynched and terrorized for the audacity of being finally “free.” Counted as 3/5 a person, for the sake of landowning voters, then denied the right to marry, to vote, to live freely, to own land. 

Whose side was Jesus, called by some itinerant teacher and activist from Nazareth really on?

I don't believe technology helps us to gather better or communicate in the best ways towards each other. We would look knowingly has someone communicated in words. Further and the solitude of silence, enabled growth in our Understandings of each other. Those with stories to tell where often listened. The least not confident they have they been welcomed or valued by new way of being. 

This is not a racial issue white working class folks suffered the same often. I believe it is more a social poverty issue.