It has been sunny and dry for several days in a row in Glasgow… it is wonderful! Spent several hours today sitting on a bench in Kelvingrove park, reading and drinking very yummy coffee.
I do believe that drinking less coffee makes me appreciate it more and more.
Mmm…
“I want to find someplace where people are part of a movement, something sort of revolutionary… because Jesus is.”
Amazing words. I agree… I want to find someplace like that too.
[Words by Beth]
awake
from deep slumber
to a world that is hurting
dying
in need
of
hope
raise up a generation
with its
face to the floor
yet our eyes heavenward
open our hearts
to the needs
to the cry
for love
for You
wipe the sleep from your eyes
arise
and go
freely you have received
now freely give
give
until you are spent
until there is nothing left
of you
just Me
Me in you
Me through you
touching them
revealing hope
giving love
restoring
broken
lives
It’s not a conveyor belt! Education isn’t always found in classrooms and textbooks. It is found in each other. It is not about getting kids to the end of a conveyor belt process after 14 years, but it is about helping them – whatever that takes, however that looks – to find out who they are and what they want to do with their lives.
[ Sparked from watching Freedom Writers ]
Related posts: Freedom Writers
strip it all away
so i am naked and vulnerable
before You
til there’s only me and You
in our secret place
of intimacy
tear down the barriers
the walls of fear
i erect
let them lie in ruins
broken
before Your love
[ Written during church on Sunday ]
This poem just made me cry… Adam writes amazing stuff…
Beneath the blanket of warm gray sky
rest wear wanderlust
rest passing pilgrim
rest earnest seeker
looking for life in odd doors
vintage windows
eclectic mixes
worn streets
and torn sheetsrest till the breathe you breath
penetrates the pulsing soul
evaporating the imposed veils of separation
Read the rest of the poem here…
[ Six Nations 2008 ]
I’ve been reading a lot these last two months. One of the books I read over the Christmas break was… Letters To A Young Poet (One of my amazing friends bought me a copy… thanks!). This was one of my new year goals… so first one down. Good feeling.
The book is a collection of Rainer Maria Rilke’s letters to a poet called Franz Xaver Kappus, who had been writting to him. Kappus’ letter are not included, but you get the gist of what he has been saying from Rilke’s response. It’s a short collection, easily read in an hour or two. I think it will be one of the books I come back to time and again, having already read it twice and quoted it lots to other people!
Here’s some quotes… I love this book!
“I know no advice for you save this: to go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it.”
“Live a while in these books, learn from them what seems to you worth learning, but above all love them.”
“And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to break out of it. This very wish will help you, if you use it quietly, and deliberately and like a tool, to spread out your solitude over wide country. People have (with the help of conventions) orientated all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it.”
“Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question whence all this may be coming and whither it is bound? Since you know that you are in the midst of transitions and wished for nothing so may as to change.”
So, we’re back from Berlin… Had a fantastic time just chilling out, taking in some history and the sights. We did one of the free walking tours, which was excellent, and got to see a lot of the touristy places… Brandenburg Gate, Bebel Platz, Berlin Wall, the Reichstag, Holocaust Memorial, and so on.
Took in a few bars one night, including this cool little Cuban place:
We somehow (very flukey) managed to be there over Long Night At The Museum, an evening when all the museums are open from 6pm to 2am. You buy a single ticket and it allows you access to all the museums, who all have special programs on for the event. We got to visit the Jewish Museum, the main one we had wanted to see. It was difficult at times to comprehend what the Jews have suffered, made me very reflective. The architecture in Berlin seems so well thought out – brought me back to comments from Soliton Sessions last Feb about how we shape our buildings and then they shape us. I’m really fascinated by how the design and shape of buildings impacts upon how we interact with them. My favourite memorial in the Jewish museum was one called Shalechet – click the picture below to read the artists description of it.
We also managed to take in a piano recital in Berlin Cathedral… oh my word it was amazing!
More pictures on my Berlin flickr set here…
“Here we are living in a world of “identity crises,” and most of us have no idea what an identity is. Half the problem is that an identity is something which must be understood intuitively, rather than in terms of provable fact. An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”
[Madeleine L’Engle]
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