Not everything ends with my observations...

Found that it really good self care to listen to your gut. like spiritual discernment internally...`Hell what does a northern white kid now retired ..well wishful thinking `hell what do l know`.  Big part of me, based on sojourner through Life, my own journey. Well believe that you can work on and heal your inner part, for the most part of own relationship without having to interact with the person, parent, spouse, child, former friend and others who may have trespassed you.

So as often wouldn't rely , just on what l blog about here, like my own narrative might not be important nor relevant to your own experience , how you grasp stuff .Its important l do not presume the journey your Life has taken.

Further my understanding is very dated. If don't loose track my own trajectory been book related. Uncomfortable even go so far has commentating do not like the taught collage counselling nor am l keen on all the modern self help books. Pick up the journal style recording as form of therapy.  

Maybe all the authors of this commentary is achieving and to that view its big. Give you the reader both a sense of another's perspective and chance to dialogue further with mates. We often learn refelctivly when we sat with a cup of tea or coffee thinking about the days events that are ahead or behind us.

Demonstrating Hope, listening to others should breed Hope. hearing from others and the struggles they are facing also they have overcome should fill us with Hope. Hope in  a Hopeless world not bad place to be on a Tuesday in August 2020.

Lord Jesus, when we need to process events and occurrences which leave us shaken, bewildered, uncertain, reassure us of your love, and of your presence. Hold our fears and guide our thoughts, our decisions, our actions; keep us steady on your way and in your peace.

tough watching a generation become wasted.

 It's tough watching a generation become wasted. The covered tattooed bodies. Earrings in nose several in each year some on lips and even cheeks. Heads down not observing the beauty of the day. Celebrating longer term breaks and money off bus travelling. School life extended to 19 with collages that don't educate into working Life so desperately needed. Encouraged to practice being non binary Vaping as an alternative to healthy lifestyle and social media telling you who you should be, where you should be, and where to go to avoid question about how you should be.

It's  tough watching a generation become wasted. But we are witnessing a whole society of self centered, self serving people, dieing slowly of the disease of conciet and own self importance. What good are we if , you and l don't offer or model an alternative. 

How about few Saturday night Film suggestion

 So here we are in humid evening first evening in August .Doring the season l do not like Summer. Hot night summer on Wolds northern Yorkshire dummer.

Movie treat for some.

Lantana 

It's really good...detective falls in love with girl but his she the Killer.

Black book..... is WW2 war movie but real hero is young girl who gets her revenge.

Knives out 

... Like downtown abbey meets columbo loads of stars on it like thriller but all could be the killer 

Those should keep you going.....for real comedy ..Peter Sellers in--- the Party ...that's real funny.

Here's one very different.  

Robot & Frank.

This is really good this retired thief is given a Robot to keep him out of trouble...he starts to use the robots skills to do robbery...worth it.

All look worthy of the investment of your time.

Painting an image here.....

 If we agree the decline of organised religion is taking place Catholicism and Anglican movement witnessed increased numerical evidence.  Perhaps the loneliness and uncertainty of modern life, coupled with Christianity’s surprising appeal to a new generation with diverse beliefs and politics. Just may suggest something else is happening .Questions posed include ;- Is Britain witnessing a genuine religious revival?  Could answers to very modern problems be found in our religious institutions ?  Is that a question worth considering? ?Some of these institutions are glorified in prayer that runs through the heritage veins. 

Its Friday spending time away from Gym and medical observations, away from any gatherings looking at the news issues ones that catch a Northern guy in a northern town with Northern heritage. OK you got the image.

 Last evening, Further issues arose when Israeli groups gathered to discuss the end of twinning arrangement between London Bough and Israelite town. The group appears to show a woman shouting abuse at protesters before eggs are thrown towards the demonstration. No injuries have been reported.

Please folks it is ok to comment on this Blog it is not OK to be foolish or threatening.

Please folks  it is ok to comment on this Blog it is not OK to be foolish or threatening.

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 effects lose people in projects. Seen this 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 addressing local issues, lose some relationships everyone now around us plus our work, becomes less important. No longer focus on 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 exercise any 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.