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 often listened to the least nor have they been welcomed or valued 

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

Monday if get the chance watch Star wars episode a New Hope.

 Well l watched the New hope...which you may or maybe you won't recall was the first of the Star wars 70s trilogy of films. It's pretty good but a wee bit cardboard like when you come to the special effects, along with the props, plus poor cutting room edition l watched. 

However it has a story it was the frontrunner of loads of games it belongs though in that era of a film being exciting but somehow before films technically really improved 

What l didn't know is this the film was a 'mish mesh' of lots of films put together by the great George Lucas. Casablanca gets a nob....yellow brick road and the magnificent seven all spotted.

But it also fast inferred values about redemption. Requiring a saviour, judgement overcoming resilience, and grief loss, and rejection. It has values about small uncounted for boy growing into adulthood overcoming adversity and showing persistence. Bringing hope in a hopeless situation. Standing up for principles and daring to care.

Dare to care, and bring others hope. It's Monday if get the chance watch Star wars episode a New Hope.

 "However or in whatever changes l make. Like you still hold onto something of what l was. That remains in my Identity." 

                                     The  ..'spiritofthestreets58'@

Reasons to be cheerful 2026.

So they wrote off my home town team like they often done in the past. It's only entertainment just a game of football. That brings excitement hope, dreams. How does that transcend into the daily walk taken by people in Hull, (one letter from Hell).

They wore the colours of thier home town team with pride. Carried shoulders high walking thru the bus station over the footbridge into the stadium to observe various warm up drills. Some carried bags with goodies, drinks, snacks..those with extra had further treats at the ground expensive overrated and unhealthy. The staple diet of the over carbonates locals too many calories, too many deep fried choices, too much money.

The game set off with a crash plus burn approach. This method to collect as many points as you can and climb the league table as soon as the team can.

The commentators over paid and over in Humberside...while the team are Yorkshire based have already made their predictions to write off suggesting relegation fight for Hull city's tigers.

Of course as often most certainly last season City have not read the script. We are proud we are chuffed to bits we are settled and at peace with the world.

Still only a game 'a funny olde game' but today we at Hull city we are the winners.

Art sometimes brings us different focus.

Sometimes time can improve our understanding our sense of what we should view. Others can improve with technology how we perceived things bringing different focus.People with better way of being can see an image then shine alight in to prices compaction. They can with expertise shows us what we may not see at first sight.

The above image by Monet can do that for myself hopefully for you also. The colours have been cleaned up and improved.

The background telling us about life although rural image it also highlights events in city nit further away. Perhaps learn to focus, may encourage us to  witness the lives of the two individuals pretty central to the image. The shadows from the tree suggest to us it's Autumnal situation.

The story of Tobias in the Apocrypha bits of the bible not included on the cannon do that . They invite us further into examining our life's, our stories and the relationships we foster. .The Bible can offer us insights, different understanding,  highlighting ways to be different, better, and gain a new focus. 

Today the rain came it came on the just and the unjust. I was in both camps somehow.

In 1975 very different younger Kevin watched a play for today. ..'just another Saturday...' about a Orange parade Saturday in July.

True as l'm sat here writing this, it had an impression upon myself was it just me growing up?. Was it just seeing someone wrote something l connected with?  Was it just about place...traditions...and me finding my own independent thinking? .

Still today l'm crossing borders chasing down thoughts, sharing life. Making mistakes trying to hold onto faith.witnessing telly showing me families in chaos on estates like mine. Fearful of a world that was changing. Disappointed in what was evidence to what we desired. It's 2026 and lots of the issues identified in a daft play written for TV. Issues are still sensitive matters for now. Echos to return the poignant troubled moments that get repeated all around us even in this moment.

Today the rain came, arrived it rained on on the just and the unjust. I was in both camps somehow.

A song and a psalm, a prayer and a ponder...

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Somewhere along the way

The future became yesterday

I didn't notice it day by day

The time just kept on slipping away

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#MorningPrayer Lord God, Holy Trinity, heighten our attentiveness to and awareness of your work in our lives and in our history, that our faith may be turned not towards the idols we create for ourselves to feed our fears, but rather be fed by your grace, and placed in your love.