Another idea for our spiritual renewal

 It's difficult one which might not make any sense or purpose. We run around and that includes Church when we should just ease it all off a little. We get pulled into the numerical evidence to demonstrate where getting people to attend our provision. Start taking short cuts seen people stop accurately reporting the people attending.

Stop addressing issues start implying some other issues then the work practices encounters. Because we got caught in little bit of manipulation. The government led project.

Seen it lose people in projects. Seen in happen in environments of commerce. Something becomes the engine no longer the nature of the work.We started to pay attention to the service level agreements. Extra meetings more difficult paperwork. Less time with client groups. Not thier issues lost some relationships everyone now around us plus our work, becomes more important then why we always do what we had been doing.

So rediscover that's been my recent learning rediscover the pace. It's not huge numbers it quality of the model you are to them. Rediscover the value being among the powerless, the vulnerable those who don't count nor can excersie as my real influence. That's the testing issue. The young people really at the bottom don't wield influence. 

More time to find you.....Like you found this page.

Spirituality is not a holiday from the discipline of LIFE it's part of your life like music you play, TV you watch, food you share ,work/school/ or hard hard stuff. Relationships formed or growing among.

But we like to put each part into compartments keeping such areas separate. We shouldn't because areas leisurely, emotional, spiritual all fold into the rest. What we do then secondary discourse is we forget some areas. We neglect areas. They become forgotten. Not so important.

Add to that people...economic wellbeing ..health ..searching for wisdom.Neglect the forgotten we forget people...we forget relationships...we don't treasure or develop our spiritual well being 

Mind gets confused live less worthy. Often become more busy. Anything sounding familiar?

Anything sounding like YOU. Sounds like ME sometimes.

Part of the solution is recoup your time with spirit. Before you get too busy time with God. Time reflecting in silence. Return to developing time with others , listening to others and practising having a cuppa with friends. Read more anything yesterday the Bible but anything. Listen to your music . Watch TV with others invest invest invest with people, relationships, Church walking in nature...Dance weep and cry.

Developing a bit of you. Kevin directed Spiritual excersie!

Here's some the truth however uncomfortable this may sound but fiercest defenders of Christian faith in the UK are not remotely part of the indigenous population. Not by along long way. One could even experience that most of  the strongest forms of anti-Christian contempt exist within hyper-liberal , neo liberalism so evident in last 30 years of the Political climate. The faith which requires us to see God, hear God, follow God, hold faith are Allien to the modern native majority.

So how do we prepare as individuals to know God?
So how do we prepare as individuals to see and hear God?
So how do we prepare as individuals to develop hold onto and explore Faith. 

It's very difficult if you do not desire these things. But have to move away from the chaos and seek. Seek silence experiance quietness. Switch off the social media. Listen to others on faith journey. Recognise that being constantly on the go isn't the way it should be nor should it be as required for LIFE to flourish, grow and for you to develop.

There is something in each of us that if we stop the struggle the real you will come out of the internal self. Try each day to turn off the social media and technology. Sit silently. For same period, same time, in perhaps same place.

The Chaos always nearby like a banana skin.

Even walk up a hill cannot guarantee peace nor silence. You have to try hard to find the isolation in Gods great cathedral. While of course avoiding God's great banana skin's. Enjoy today's special moments. Later you should find more peace joy and ability to survive the loud chaos.

Is it true that if your at the bottom, then...

Looking at TV play called 'The Old Oak' filmed a great deal in area worked Easington colliery, co Durham. But it's thoroughly depressing one conclusion is the lowdown the line you are easier it is hurt others and blame outsider's.

Also saw newspaper headline the more poverty you experience harder the impact on your mind. Easier it becomes to develop mental health plus dementia.

It was not so long ago but really feels so much further back. When l was still.psry time youth worker only holding a part time qualification. Met regular to discuss challenge, trying to grasp the implications of the 1989 changes to benefits allowances. So young energetic and confused. We pretty sure they bought we would change the he laws poverty would be ended. More luxurious life style could be evidenced. It wasn't to be.

Hope feels obscene.

You know, the only love I've ever known Was calling' me, calling' me, calling' me.

 Sailboats sailing' a crystal sea
Gypsy dolphins running' free
Seagulls circling endlessly
Calling' me home
Mocking bird, butterfly
Sunset colors, ah, they're filling the sky
Newborn baby starts to cry
Calling' me home
I've been most everywhere
A man can go
I've been this whole world round
Yes, I have
And I've seen most everything
A man can see
One thing I've found
Only thing I've ever found
When I was lost and all alone
I took a look on what I'd done

You know, the only love I've ever known
Was calling' me, calling' me, calling' me.
I heard Him calling' me home
I'm going home, going home
I'm going home, I'm going home

The only thing I've ever known.

Saint Paul’s own report of his adventures is captured in the new testament part of our belief system the Christian tribe follow. 

2 Corinthians 11: “I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again. 

24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. 

25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, 

26 I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers. 

27 I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked".

Me nothing quite like that.But got deeper into the faith business. One thing the actual one thing so evident in my life has been this.... A living relationship with Jesus Christ the son of the living God .

Apparently they say the words Jesus spoke collected together only amount to 2 hours in total. The Beatles music over the 10 years they recorded only make 10 hours. Influences attitude and sense it's all true and the spirit guided a snuck like myself.

The only thing I've ever known. Is my LIFE is better for following the Lord.