We still can't believe the news today.

Psalm 40 reminds us that it is to Yahweh that we must turn in trouble as well as in joy, when we're in the pit and when we're on the peak. That transition from pit to peak is precisely where Psalm 40 opens. 

How long. 
Praying for the safety and freedom of our sisters and brothers in Iran.
The U2. Team

Narrative

 Sometimes like when heard song by Taylor Swift recently called 'Cornelia street '. It's story telling the words and it's Lyrical value. These all come together to draw an individual into the concept.
It happens a lot to many the narrative draws a person into the moment. The song then also becomes there's ..or that group ..or that moment...later it all becomes that memory.
It may not be able to grasp for others like a joke may not appear funny to another. Then again it may be something you feel, those words are what you'd like to say...but another's done this for you.
Can't always grasp the narrative but you love the song and it stays with you. Decades later you hold it in a special place in your LIFE often sharing all your thematic and emotions.

Liturgy of Church can be the same but we struggle to share this. Sometimes waited for the moment, wanting to find right words. Hoping others can feel the spirituality of the narrative. Capture what you grasped in the moment.

Becoming perhaps intolerable but perhaps it's more. Everywhere l travel people got music on got films on...intrusive and affects others.
Unkind and ignorant.

Asian Muslims arguing in British Parliament about Islamists threatening Jewish people in England .

Asian Muslims arguing in British Parliament about Islamists threatening Jewish people in England .

As the rumbles about Muslim youths threatening to go armed against football supporters traveling to play sports in UK.

Feeling more and more detached.

Trying to give context here :- UK leaders many feel openly expressing are being led by small Muslim communities. Hence expressing..."The Government are absolutely killing people who work hard and have nothing to show for it. At the same time seeing illegal mass migration, where everything is given to them for free, paid for by us."

This can't go on!

Try get some context .

There needs to be a mechanism to discourage, but better exclude, elected officials in our cities ,parliament, whose principal focus is on subjects that don't effect the country forward, such councillors and MPs are often focused on sectarian religious issues.

The evidence show the types of questions in the House of Commons from ethnic minority MPs vs non-ethnic minority MPs. Many were born abroad, have dual citizenship and having imported toxic sectarian politics into the UK.

Some MPs have 50% of their questions orientated around Gaza and asylum for example.

Human.

 ....... Are we human or we dancers.... This is new to me a song performed at tonight's Karaoke event in hotel where mixture of Aunt Sally's, drugged out wannabee's.  Loud over the top performance ..humble tryers, misfits of human race..Gathered oh by the way myself included.

Pay my respects to grace and virtue

Send my condolences to good

Give my regards to soul and romance

They always did the best they could

And so long to devotion

You taught me everything I know

........Humanity not doing the job well of looking after each other. Not showing any mercy...lacking respect. Are we seeking God? No. No just dancing across each others pass. Not best we should've doing.

Litergy.

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land-He’s wandered the earth an exiled man-Seen his family scattered, people hounded and torn - He’s always on trial for just being born.

Bob Dylan from Infidels.....tracks called Neighbourhood Bully ...personal feel this song has more then one layer open to interpretation ,plus it's misunderstood if just take it as the 'Israeli nation' is now the bully because they have experienced the oppression from others close by geographically.

So walked down lots of streets 
That are familiar to previous times 
Supposed now recognise living here nice dream.
Now the loves of my LIFE have died close family passed away.
Got to that Autumn stage where walking these places Valletta, Medina, paceville with my warm coat.
It's the memories.
Old man with no companion just memories.
Don't want to visit Primrose valley anymore as just brings sadness.
Am l too old forge new memories? 

These towns and lanes they hold for myself voices images of walking with you. Cuppa with you:-resting on bus to Hotel with you:-Late night calls resting on the Pillow:-Putting you on loudspeaker as we conversed.

On roof on huge Church, talking in depth, ferry trip's.

SILENCE.

This Litergy which is Spiritual to myself, repetitive of ideas, thoughts and words all phases used to grasp what's happening to myself as Kevin struggles to understand you and myself. To understand each other, this life these experiences. The Litergy of the theology  we all wrestle with.

Nazis

CHEIF RABBI OF UKRAINE Moshe Azman…….

Nazis are those who: kill civilians in Ukrainian cities by dropping Iranian  -russian “shahids” and various types of missiles on them, shooting people in their homes, as was the case in Izyum, Bucha, Irpin, and other cities in Ukraine 

Nazis are those who killed Moti, an orphan whom we adopted as a child and who was a quiet, kind, and good boy, whose first daughter was born a few months before his murder

Nazis are those who last week dropped a bomb on 84-year-old Jew Yevgeny Alexandrovich Bonder, who was peacefully walking through his hometown of Kherson and was killed by a Russia bomb - simply because he lived in Ukraine.

Nazis are those who killed Zoryislav Zamoysky, a member of our community — a quiet, peaceful, religious Jewish boy who was tortured and then shot in the heart by Russia soldiers in Bucha.

Nazis are those who destroy entire cities in southern and eastern Ukraine, calling it “liberation” and leaving dozens of people as refugees

Nazis are those who torture and execute Ukrainian prisoners—defenders of their land and their people

Nazis are those who kidnapped and deported tens of thousands of Ukrainian children .

Nazis are also those who, in the form of propagandists on russian central television, publicly call for the destruction and erasure of cities in Ukraine and Europe, and call for the mass death of civilians - the, elderly women, children, men.

Nazis are those who support the bloody terrorists of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the criminal regime of Iran, which openly declares its intention to destroy the Jewish people in Israel, and even helps Russia with its drones - “Shaheed's” - to kill Ukrainians  

Lying propagandists - with your lies and attacks on decent people,

The Author of this blog just rambles on expressing their own views with the fragility of my knowledge.  Sometimes expect lack of knowledge. But it's a blog,' a caught in the moment reflection'. Perhaps got to see that l am just who l am. 

But something changing as the Woke liberalism fails along with the spent up socialist experiment better documented in Orwell's Animal Farm. At last Southern political elite,( in their quest to oust the Christian fellowship), finding that the Allah is our prophets God is wicked evil vile alternative to Peace. Is our society waking up to return to examine the healing power of following the Prince of Peace.?

Gotta ask. Is our society waking up a return to examine the healing power of following the Prince of Peace.?

Truth will undoubtedly defeat lies, just as the light defeats the darkness!

Gender.

 

Not sure when it happened certain it was in my teens, became very aware of the fact that most of those around myself were comfortable with our gender. Which meant that the focus on washing the spots, cooking a meal, ironing, babysitting younger siblings, they were roles fulfilled. Taking interest in the kitchen was a position expected myself to fulfill. The eldest male in large working class Northern town .

I knew this was my role, knew this was comfortable.Traveling into Informal education via the Boxing game then Church based youth work. Exposed to girls football teams and Female leaders in the Church.

For myself there wasn’t a gender role or understanding to be learnt.

My professional path educated myself with much more clarity. Macho environment of Sporting game, the hardest game, Boxing. Home life, relationships, Church, gym, informal youth work all processing a context that showed myself Women were my equal and there wasn’t  gender role we could not achieve gender wasn’t an issue.

Contextually it was a working out .Youth work, trade l learnt was full of my Equals some of the  opposite gender also managed me plus my colleagues, in discussions they shared, encouraged, further supported this sojourner. Somehow others not exposed to this.

Was I just one of the lucky ones ?

Gossiping

We talked with eyes focused on us alone, Love in our way, looked in the shops talked about the prices and sometimes way things where. Cup of tea , cappuccino for Loving companion. Yesterday was silent deeply quiet, the days pretty long. Now time speeds by. Me in the way l do. Began to wonder a while ago. Now openly talk about.

"When l'm gone".

LIFE passed so quickly this style of internment ministry brought me to many places, so many people, so many special moments.

Sometimes we think communicating message to others but perhaps only your Brain understands. There is never with this friend of mine, never time when feel stressed as l can talk with openness. Recognising trust we have gained with each other.

The mystery
Will be there after you're gone.

Like Bookends keeping in a familiar place. Place of support and trust. It's the youngsters world now. My thoughts have turned their in my body and mind.

"When your gone, the Air you breathed,will be there when your gone. three score years and ten of joy and pain .Adds up to mayflies on the windowpane".