Heading out to see Foy tonight at Bloc… cannot wait! Love this song of his, it’s being released soon so go buy it on Dec 18th! More later.
Update: Can’t seem to get the video embedded from YouTube, so use the link above (or here) and head over there and check it out.
Today I’m blogging over at a collaborative advent blog, organised by Neal. Glasgow bloggers and beyond. Check it out here.
Reindeer
Originally uploaded by emmaboyd.
A really great friend from Ireland came over to visit this weekend, we had such a laugh hanging out, catching up and just generally bantering. We took a we dander round St George’s Square to see the Christmas lights and ice rink etc, was very pretty. Much fun.
I am not sure what to feel today. It’s been a whole year, and yet sometimes it only feels like last week she was running around looking for hugs and affection.
There just are no words.
The original posts:
Blessings & Heartbreaks
Dangerous Wonder
In memory of Cheryl Scullion.
“If Jericho be not razed, our faith is in vain.” (George Ramsay)
Discuss the claim that belief in either Jewish or Christian religious claims cannot survive if the Bible is shown to be seriously erroneous or misleading in historical matters.
What have we begun?
Here we see angels,
burning like the sun.
Here we juggle destinies –
what is this thing we’ve done?
What army gets commissioned
kneeling in this way?
What passion finds expression
when wounded soldiers pray?
Are nameless heroes rising?
Tomorrow’s choosen ones,
carriers of Jesus,
what plague have we begun?
What dreamer writes upon the wall?
[Found on a prayer room wall]
What are the ‘walls’ in postmodern/postchristian/whatever-they-are-now-calling-it culture? Websites? Blogs? Music? Film?
Who are today’s dreamers, stirring up the church?
I did it! I finally did it!
I left Bebo!
Woohoo!
I remember hearing about an old comic strip back in the days of St. Ed’s. Two guys are talking to each other, and one of them says he has a question for God. He wants to ask why God allows all of this poverty and war and suffering to exist in the world. And his friend says, “Well, why don’t you ask?” The fellow shakes his head and says he is scared. When his friend asks why, he mutters, “I’m scared God will ask me the same question.” Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, “You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.”
[ The Irresistible Revolution – Shane Claiborne ]
At CU yesterday we were thinking about the issue of pain and suffering, why it exists, what we do with it etc. Then I read this today. This is why we must act. We are called to not only pray against injustice and suffering, but to act to bring about its end. In a wise mans words, ‘It’s not about charity, it’s about justice.’ (Yes, that man was Bono.)
It’s about bringing heaven here.
Sleep, don’t weep, my sweet love
My face is all wet ’cause my day was rough
So do what you must do to find yourself
Wear another shoe, paint my shelf
Those times that I was broke, and you stood strong
I hope I find a place where I feel I belong
[Sleep, Don’t Weep – Damien Rice]
Tonight my flatmate and I went to see The Last Kiss… actually such a great film. It really looks at the darker side of relationships, I think it raises several pretty good points…
One point it raised was how even when you appear to have the ‘perfect life’, there can still be something missing… I guess I look at that from two perspectives: 1) If you’re not a Christian, your life can only be so good without God, you miss out on so much more, and 2) Even in a wonderful, loving relationship, guys (especially guys, including Christian ones) are prone to question what else is out there, or struggle with lust etc.
Another point I thought was addressed very well was how, despite our protestations that we want truth and honesty in our relationships, more often than not, we don’t really. We would rather continue to believe what we want.
“The world is moving so fast now that we start freaking long before our parents did because we don’t ever stop to breathe anymore.”
[Kim, The Last Kiss]
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