nice to see yous
a sort of family friend/cousin, came over with her boyf for a couple of nights there. Laura and Craig, I hadnt seen her in a few years or met him before, but it was really cool we all got on well. They cooked me some great food and I took them for guinness and irish music and then dancing at a tsunami 80's fundraiser which made for an excellent nite. Both very intersting ppl, he had gone through about 7 or 8 careers to find theraputic masage as the job for him, she works as a speech therapist for the health service in england. They were both very open to spiritual chat and we had some cool conversations, i am interested to know more about "reki" (not sure about spelling) but its a therapy where ppl move there hands over you body, about an inch from your skin "tapping into a universal force to channel energy for healing" I often feel the power of the Holy Spirit flowing through me when praying and I definately believe it can heal ppl, but i would not normally associate it with physical healing but i think thats more my lack of faith. So this reki sounds sort similar but then if the power isnt openly being acknowledged as being of God then where is it coming from? i think the traditional point of view is that it would be from darkness, but why would the person get healed by what is in essence a totally destrucitve power, but then it does say that satan can mascarage as light....
any comments?
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
tea and toast
do you ever wonder if foods are capable of much more than stopping you being hungry?
maybe thats obvious... but this mornings tea: hot and strong with toast: metled butter not to crisp not too soft, was excellent made me feel great and was definately more than 2 slices of bread some heat, butter, milk, hot water and leaves.
and a fry up..... surely a magic healer who we have all felt the power of?
do you ever wonder if foods are capable of much more than stopping you being hungry?
maybe thats obvious... but this mornings tea: hot and strong with toast: metled butter not to crisp not too soft, was excellent made me feel great and was definately more than 2 slices of bread some heat, butter, milk, hot water and leaves.
and a fry up..... surely a magic healer who we have all felt the power of?
Monday, January 24, 2005
Friday, January 21, 2005
more tales of the underground,
its been a good week so far, a real week with good bits and bad bits, the plans for a habitat for humanity team of ppl i know to a tsunami area are getting underway(if you want to do it just let me know), and the flights are now officially booked for miami (YO) - the 24/7 winter music conferance team team(team details) i really cant wait...
had to tell difficult truth to a guy at work whos girlfriend i nearly did mad stuff with before christmas, but thankfully didnt. work has been quite difficult
had a mad bit of prophecy on wed nite was praying for a girl and saw a cool pic of her heart, but then i like just felt the name ben, i felt like some sort of weirdo asking her if there was someone she knew or close to her called ben, but it turned out that day she had spent the afternoon with a kid who has a brain tumor called ben!
the underground(brett, chris, cian, mic finnigan) were round agian last night typically hardcore, inspiring and good craic, its unusal for me to be around a few guys who are totally up for it in the same way...
its been a good week so far, a real week with good bits and bad bits, the plans for a habitat for humanity team of ppl i know to a tsunami area are getting underway(if you want to do it just let me know), and the flights are now officially booked for miami (YO) - the 24/7 winter music conferance team team(team details) i really cant wait...
had to tell difficult truth to a guy at work whos girlfriend i nearly did mad stuff with before christmas, but thankfully didnt. work has been quite difficult
had a mad bit of prophecy on wed nite was praying for a girl and saw a cool pic of her heart, but then i like just felt the name ben, i felt like some sort of weirdo asking her if there was someone she knew or close to her called ben, but it turned out that day she had spent the afternoon with a kid who has a brain tumor called ben!
the underground(brett, chris, cian, mic finnigan) were round agian last night typically hardcore, inspiring and good craic, its unusal for me to be around a few guys who are totally up for it in the same way...
Monday, January 17, 2005
messy
had an interesting weekend, pretty hectic, played squash for the first time ever and played(lost) a waterpolo match and trained in the same weekend for the first time in years, also went out friday and saturday.
heres the story...
on saturday i went to the pub with a friend here called michael, its a local pub really friendly, so i was sitting chatting away to a few of his mates and tell the girl beside me that i met mic at a bible study. Turns out she used to be really into that when she was wee but hadnt really bothered in years. so she ends up coming to church with us the next night, cool. but as the night wore on and i had a few more guinnesses bit of dancing, bit of chatting and i ended up trying to stick the lips on a (different) girl. this other girl mic had been chatting to eariler about how me and him were different. yeah right. incidentally for your amusment she turned me down, stroked but probably for the best
so although it all went a bit wrong, this girl Stacy came to church for the first time in years. but then this other girl might think christians are hypocrits. does that balance out? should we just have stayed at home?
had an interesting weekend, pretty hectic, played squash for the first time ever and played(lost) a waterpolo match and trained in the same weekend for the first time in years, also went out friday and saturday.
heres the story...
on saturday i went to the pub with a friend here called michael, its a local pub really friendly, so i was sitting chatting away to a few of his mates and tell the girl beside me that i met mic at a bible study. Turns out she used to be really into that when she was wee but hadnt really bothered in years. so she ends up coming to church with us the next night, cool. but as the night wore on and i had a few more guinnesses bit of dancing, bit of chatting and i ended up trying to stick the lips on a (different) girl. this other girl mic had been chatting to eariler about how me and him were different. yeah right. incidentally for your amusment she turned me down, stroked but probably for the best
so although it all went a bit wrong, this girl Stacy came to church for the first time in years. but then this other girl might think christians are hypocrits. does that balance out? should we just have stayed at home?
Friday, January 14, 2005
blown away....
I am so happy to write this post. Last night these guys came round my house to start an accountabilty group, two I would know to see and one I met for the first time on the bus on the way, we got back to mine and it just seemed so of God. We were all at the same place, backgrounds, whats going on in our lives, even books we are reading. and as we got more excited Jesus just seemed closer and as Jesus seemed closer we got more excited. It was just one of those really special times when, God in His infinte mercy let us catch a glipse, we were praying and prophecying and chatting and dreaming till about 4am last night.
just amazing, like a little improptu 24/7, like that night when we ended up having breakfast together at 8am, like the orignal prayer nights back in ballynahinch, it just felt so good.
its taken a while to find the underground in dublin, but hopefully this is gonna happen every week. wow so good. being here for a year although it was already worth it last night would have justified the whole year :)
let the revolution begin
I am so happy to write this post. Last night these guys came round my house to start an accountabilty group, two I would know to see and one I met for the first time on the bus on the way, we got back to mine and it just seemed so of God. We were all at the same place, backgrounds, whats going on in our lives, even books we are reading. and as we got more excited Jesus just seemed closer and as Jesus seemed closer we got more excited. It was just one of those really special times when, God in His infinte mercy let us catch a glipse, we were praying and prophecying and chatting and dreaming till about 4am last night.
just amazing, like a little improptu 24/7, like that night when we ended up having breakfast together at 8am, like the orignal prayer nights back in ballynahinch, it just felt so good.
its taken a while to find the underground in dublin, but hopefully this is gonna happen every week. wow so good. being here for a year although it was already worth it last night would have justified the whole year :)
let the revolution begin
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
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Sunday, January 09, 2005
the breezeblock
went to dv8 last night the thing where it all kicked off last month holy spirit style. this month an american guy was preaching, he reminded me of Mr Wolf(played by Harvey Keitel) in pulp fiction (he comes to help Jules and Samuel L jackson when they shoot the guy by accident) anyway his topic? HELL..
i hadnt heard anyone preach on hell in ages, he kinda blew my head off, but there is no getting around it, Jesus chats about it all over the place(luke 16 big chunk), he made a good point that at no point does God ask us to understand it, or when anyone should end up there, but it certainly exists.
God loves everyone on earth whether they acknowledge Him or not, wanting desperately to be in relationship with us, but Jesus didnt just die so we could have a conversation with the Big Man, He gave up His life to save us from an eterity in hell, not some underground place with satan on the decks and loads of wild parties, but a place of torment unimaginably worse than anything this life can throw at us.
this is really heavy and i dont want to condemm anyone, i have messed up my life over and over, but my hope is Jesus and if this is true then i have to tell it, or i do no-one any favours, being nice and avoiding difficult stuff is not really loving anyone.
"Peter said, "Change you life, Turn to God and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, so your sins are forgiven. Receive the gift of the Holy spirit." acts 2
mail meif you want to know more or give me some abuse :)
went to dv8 last night the thing where it all kicked off last month holy spirit style. this month an american guy was preaching, he reminded me of Mr Wolf(played by Harvey Keitel) in pulp fiction (he comes to help Jules and Samuel L jackson when they shoot the guy by accident) anyway his topic? HELL..
i hadnt heard anyone preach on hell in ages, he kinda blew my head off, but there is no getting around it, Jesus chats about it all over the place(luke 16 big chunk), he made a good point that at no point does God ask us to understand it, or when anyone should end up there, but it certainly exists.
God loves everyone on earth whether they acknowledge Him or not, wanting desperately to be in relationship with us, but Jesus didnt just die so we could have a conversation with the Big Man, He gave up His life to save us from an eterity in hell, not some underground place with satan on the decks and loads of wild parties, but a place of torment unimaginably worse than anything this life can throw at us.
this is really heavy and i dont want to condemm anyone, i have messed up my life over and over, but my hope is Jesus and if this is true then i have to tell it, or i do no-one any favours, being nice and avoiding difficult stuff is not really loving anyone.
"Peter said, "Change you life, Turn to God and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, so your sins are forgiven. Receive the gift of the Holy spirit." acts 2
mail meif you want to know more or give me some abuse :)
Thursday, January 06, 2005
im afraid,
of being alone, of being rejected when ppl really know me, so i never let them in, and its from when im young and i dont want it anymore
this isnt some cry for help or fishing for complements, this blog was when in started just me saying the absolute truth of my experience of life and no one really read it, and now i know that some do, and i think i have been subconciously editing what i say, so this is back to the beginning and right now God's pulling up some seriously deep issues
of being alone, of being rejected when ppl really know me, so i never let them in, and its from when im young and i dont want it anymore
this isnt some cry for help or fishing for complements, this blog was when in started just me saying the absolute truth of my experience of life and no one really read it, and now i know that some do, and i think i have been subconciously editing what i say, so this is back to the beginning and right now God's pulling up some seriously deep issues
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Saturday, January 01, 2005
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
hope you all had a good night last night. i was just at a wee house party with lots of good friends and some decks which meant 2005 was begun to a bit of dancing like a fool to drum n bass, oh yes.
just read an 8 page special on ambition in The Times newspaper's "body and soul" suppliment, it was a bit mad, like all these ppl going to life coaches and healers and stuff, just to find space to think and someone to listen. like its cool they are doing it but it seems like the church is totally failing to communicate God's heart for his people (anyone) my life is too busy, take a chill on sunday, i need someone to talk to about deep stuff, God is always listening and church is about support.
it also kinda made me frustrated, there was big artical on how to succeed based on primate study, its like, instead of looking up to the God who created us and knows us intmately we look down to monkeys and try and theorise?
peace
hope you all had a good night last night. i was just at a wee house party with lots of good friends and some decks which meant 2005 was begun to a bit of dancing like a fool to drum n bass, oh yes.
just read an 8 page special on ambition in The Times newspaper's "body and soul" suppliment, it was a bit mad, like all these ppl going to life coaches and healers and stuff, just to find space to think and someone to listen. like its cool they are doing it but it seems like the church is totally failing to communicate God's heart for his people (anyone) my life is too busy, take a chill on sunday, i need someone to talk to about deep stuff, God is always listening and church is about support.
it also kinda made me frustrated, there was big artical on how to succeed based on primate study, its like, instead of looking up to the God who created us and knows us intmately we look down to monkeys and try and theorise?
peace
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