real wee(a)k,
this week has been pretty up and down, at the start of it in church, i prayed that i would actually do what God called me to do and try and help out some homeless people around dublin. I was really scared and worried i might end up loosing loads of stuff or something..
on monday, i felt like i should talk to this guy but i ran for my bus instead, then at home i felt like i had to go back into town, i ended up chilling with this really sound guy called paddy, he was dead straight telling me he was a junkie he got benifits from the state and he begged to get drugs and then when he needed more he begged more.
so i was praying for him later, i didnt know what to pray but just prayed God's will,
on tuesday i ran away from another homeless guy i had talked to before, and felt like a total lapper. but still that God loved me just as much as the night before
on wednesday i heard this INCREBIBLE woman speak called Betty and did some networking with SUAS people but stayed out to late waiting to talk to this girl and in the end i never did - loser, and was feeling really proud about habitat
yesterday, had hectic day with habitat meeting in evening and had to make handbooks and do c programming in work(hate it) and was knackered. on the way home i saw paddy sitting at the phone box, had a smoke with him and he told me he has got a place on a long term rehabilitation programme !! it was the best news ive had in ages, the waiting list is really long and to quote Paddy "someone out there must be looking out for me" SWEET praise the Lord.
Friday, April 22, 2005
if you in the mood for some breakdancing and you got broad band slide on over to
high.tv once it all loads up go to the highlights and check out the red bull one on one world championships with Rahzel on the mic, thats what Im talking about....
the most incredible moment has to be when a guy does push-ups in the air, i mean no legs touching the floor, holding his whole body rigid, he does push-ups, the guy clearly has no understanding of what gravity is... mental
Thursday, April 21, 2005
the mother frekin revolution will not be televised.
ok so to change the world...
take one serious freedom fighter funk album Gil Scott-Heron.
one book by one of the worlds most respected macro economists Prof Jeffery Sachs about how to end poverty
and mix with a chilled weekend and volia! you will be a ready: with the heart that won black people their civil rights and the knowledge of a frekin genius
ok so to change the world...
take one serious freedom fighter funk album Gil Scott-Heron.
one book by one of the worlds most respected macro economists Prof Jeffery Sachs about how to end poverty
and mix with a chilled weekend and volia! you will be a ready: with the heart that won black people their civil rights and the knowledge of a frekin genius
Monday, April 18, 2005
right so this isnt a fix but we can all have IPODs for free :) here is a bbc news artical about it. Basically you need a uk address and to sign up for a trial of a service when you have done the trial(cancel it), then you get a bunch of other ppl to do it, and then they send you one. So its a bit of hassle but, if you jump through the hoops the coroporate losers buys us ipods? i like the sound of that.
right so to register you must follow this link http://www.ipodsgiveaway.co.uk/?r=81864 so that i get a credit. then you get a link so you can get your credits building up.
sweeties
Friday, April 15, 2005
UN for president
the last couple of days have been hectic, exciting, ridculous, inspiring and loads more. I was at the United Nations Information Communications Technology Task's Global Forum which meant i wore a suit for the first time in about a year, and got to meet various international hero's, private sector big wigs, eg accidentally set jacket on the Education minister of Ghana's stuff :)
i got invited by this crazy old guy(brendan) i know from here, who works for the irish government and is vice chair of the taskforce, so he blagged me an invite. it was cool to be back in the place where i was expectant of what God was going to do and had no idea what i was up to :)
so brendan is the greatest networker in all the world, within about a minute of arriving he has introduced us to about 50 people (us - another guy, Mike who is researching learning techniques, but brendan litterally bumped into on the street one day)
anyway there is a small group of youngish people there (20s) the youth caucus of the WSIS Jenifer from canada, dieogo from brazil, titi from nigeria, mija from serbia, jullia from germany. So after a bit of riverdance at a reception they are clearing off to have meeting (this is at like 9pm!) and they invite mike and i along!
so here we are being asked to input on a slot that they have addresses the whole forum the next day! so we chat away and Mike brings us a few views on education and then they decided that they would like an intervention from an irish person (intervention means that you personally address the whole floor - all the ppl) mike said he was leaving the next day so that meant it fell to me, i very very nearly bust out laughing at the concept me addressing the UN ICT! Anyway Mike realised the opportunity that it was and changed his plans so that he made the intervention (which seeing i havent a clue about education was defo for the best)
but yeah we continued to hang out with these guys and who knows what will come of it in the future, but it was crazy, ill write some of the relflections i have about how we can pray specifically into certain areas and stuff but another great adventure :)
Monday, April 11, 2005
miami photos up
i lost my wee camera in miami, so alot of the banter photos are lost, but i did have my real camera so i have uploaded a few nice shots of trip follow the link on the right hand side or if thats too far to move your mouse click here
Thursday, April 07, 2005
the perils of velcro....
the other bits of miami are kinda past now so i wont post big man ones. just to say we met some guys who had the same dream of opening a club that would be the best in the world and known that it was created to the Glory of God, except that these guys are in the place financially to make it happen!! so i was once again humbled by God's amazing power and my lack of faith.
the baptism was really cool, the whole team was there the two swedish girls travelled 40 blocks (a mission) and the two american crazy horses were there. There was loads of communian and prophecying after and I was really incrediably blessed. I think I am also feelin the benifits kinda flowing into life back here.
right so a story to make you smile...
yesterday i went swimming and cause i didnt want to look like a loser in my speedos i was wearing my boardies (shorts) The pool is all laned off and I was doing my usual swimming fast trying to look cool start to the swim. So a few lengths in I am doing the breaststroke (lots of wide leg kicks) and i get this funny feeling that my short's velcro has come un-done and i am kinda hangin out... but obviously that couldnt happen, no no it has......... panic thankfully there were no olympic cameras on the bottom of the pool to expose my nakedness and i got all things tucked away before anyone seemed to notice but you have to laugh....
finally
last nigth i was at pastroate (kinda like a group meeting of 3 cells) and kelly's best mate, who had been (rightly) spitting fire after my infadelity, was there, as we started the signing i could just feel the bad vibes, but as we went on it seemed to get better and then i looked up and she was there offering me a hug. It meant alot to me, to be extended that grace and forgivness was really awesome, to thanks jesus adn thanks bex
the other bits of miami are kinda past now so i wont post big man ones. just to say we met some guys who had the same dream of opening a club that would be the best in the world and known that it was created to the Glory of God, except that these guys are in the place financially to make it happen!! so i was once again humbled by God's amazing power and my lack of faith.
the baptism was really cool, the whole team was there the two swedish girls travelled 40 blocks (a mission) and the two american crazy horses were there. There was loads of communian and prophecying after and I was really incrediably blessed. I think I am also feelin the benifits kinda flowing into life back here.
right so a story to make you smile...
yesterday i went swimming and cause i didnt want to look like a loser in my speedos i was wearing my boardies (shorts) The pool is all laned off and I was doing my usual swimming fast trying to look cool start to the swim. So a few lengths in I am doing the breaststroke (lots of wide leg kicks) and i get this funny feeling that my short's velcro has come un-done and i am kinda hangin out... but obviously that couldnt happen, no no it has......... panic thankfully there were no olympic cameras on the bottom of the pool to expose my nakedness and i got all things tucked away before anyone seemed to notice but you have to laugh....
finally
last nigth i was at pastroate (kinda like a group meeting of 3 cells) and kelly's best mate, who had been (rightly) spitting fire after my infadelity, was there, as we started the signing i could just feel the bad vibes, but as we went on it seemed to get better and then i looked up and she was there offering me a hug. It meant alot to me, to be extended that grace and forgivness was really awesome, to thanks jesus adn thanks bex
Sunday, April 03, 2005
what happened in miami... part B
part A is the post below incase you are wondering...
cheeky one on the bus
so we went to the "international dance music awards"(IDMAs) which were pretty crap, no one was there for their awards the live acts were lame and the sound levels were all wrong... it was a pretty depressing event for anyone hoping that electronic music will be around for a few years yet...
but the new day miami beach was girdlocked and when we got on this bus there was a guy there looking totally out of place and was chatting away on his phone tryin to organise a gig. As we rolled past a club called mansion i noticed that Mos Def was playing and got excited, so the guy looks up and says, "man if you like mos def you should come check out my party, its down at the opium lounge(a really cool club) and its happening now." So we were heading to nikki beach (radio 1 party) and i was WELL up for re-routing but Mark was like we should at least check out nikki beach for a bit. anyway i got chatting to this guy and he was like " the WMC is for loosers, its all about the M3 thats where the real business is done thats where the future is. Which was brilliant to hear cause if the IDMAs stole all hope, re-inspired me that the future is still bright.
for me its not really about super clubs and glo-sticks, trance and pvc, teenagers and dave pearce, its about fusion of sounds from all over the world, about dark dirty underground clubs in rainy cities, where the music sets on fire the hearts and minds of the filthy and gorgeous crowd. about dj's who take you some where with their set, pushing limits and smashing the greatest music of the last 40 years on funked up electro beats. its about the 3am look; sweat smudged miscara and big smiles, ultimately for me its about all this being done in worship of the Lord of the dance, Jesus Christ.
actually i think thats plenty for one post, so still to come blown away and baptismo de la maxismo
part A is the post below incase you are wondering...
cheeky one on the bus
so we went to the "international dance music awards"(IDMAs) which were pretty crap, no one was there for their awards the live acts were lame and the sound levels were all wrong... it was a pretty depressing event for anyone hoping that electronic music will be around for a few years yet...
but the new day miami beach was girdlocked and when we got on this bus there was a guy there looking totally out of place and was chatting away on his phone tryin to organise a gig. As we rolled past a club called mansion i noticed that Mos Def was playing and got excited, so the guy looks up and says, "man if you like mos def you should come check out my party, its down at the opium lounge(a really cool club) and its happening now." So we were heading to nikki beach (radio 1 party) and i was WELL up for re-routing but Mark was like we should at least check out nikki beach for a bit. anyway i got chatting to this guy and he was like " the WMC is for loosers, its all about the M3 thats where the real business is done thats where the future is. Which was brilliant to hear cause if the IDMAs stole all hope, re-inspired me that the future is still bright.
for me its not really about super clubs and glo-sticks, trance and pvc, teenagers and dave pearce, its about fusion of sounds from all over the world, about dark dirty underground clubs in rainy cities, where the music sets on fire the hearts and minds of the filthy and gorgeous crowd. about dj's who take you some where with their set, pushing limits and smashing the greatest music of the last 40 years on funked up electro beats. its about the 3am look; sweat smudged miscara and big smiles, ultimately for me its about all this being done in worship of the Lord of the dance, Jesus Christ.
actually i think thats plenty for one post, so still to come blown away and baptismo de la maxismo
Saturday, April 02, 2005
so what happening in miami then.... part A
the team,
call to sacrifice,
got frustrated,
lapped the show?,
the team
So who was on the team? leader was mark a londoner 26 really sound and wise and mature, birthed and turfed a church already, knows the score but likes prog house and trance :( Steph total legend, she is ginger, has done a dance degree and works for 24-7. Charlie a really funny, joyful girl who is full of raw spiritual power. Then there were two swedish girls anna and josefin who werent with us all the time but had a habit of showing up at just the right moment...
call to sacrifice
when the four of us got together and prayed for each other properly it was pretty cool, definately feeling the prophetic flow, then when my turn came mark, said it was a time of challenge, where i needed to be sacrifice, and that i could have a grand life just living in my talents and gifts but it was just costing compared to what could happen if i was prepared to let God do all He wanted. scary! i started reading ezekiel during some quite times, and had a bit of a mad head on me, feeling the weight of what it would mean to say yes to this and frekin out a bit...
frustration
during days before we were chilling and walking and the conferance is just so big (30 events everyday and night) it was hard to grasp where to go and t o feel like we were actually being of any use. mark's philosiphy was one of a chilled approach and doing life there as a natural expression of mission, but super intense graham sometimes found that a bit difficult...
lapped the show?
outside starbucks on the way home one night were this couple from Ohio (where i spent a month in the summers of 99 and 01) who told us this story of how they were moving down south with the girls brother when they got involved in a high speed police chase (her bro was a bit dodge) but when the police caught the car arrested the brother and found the couple were innocent, they just dumped them on the road and they had no cash to stay anywhere or get home.
the bro might have gotten out the next day so they could at least have gotten some $ from him or whatever so they wanted to stay around for another day, but were scared about sleepin on the beach again. mark bought them dinner and we prayed with them, them the four us left and discussed what we might do, charlie was up for getting them a room and it just reminded me so much of me back in mexico, so i was up for getting them a bus and/or giving them one of our hotel rooms, mark, who has professional experiecne of working with the homeless decieded it was too big a risk of us maybe being thrown out of the hotel if they tried to steel stuff or whatever. Steph felt the same as mark and they were in charge so we went with the conclusion that we would try and see them tomorrow and maybe get them a ticket if it hadnt gone well with brother. it really sucked walking away from them, i respect mark as a wiser older more responsible Christian and he was the leader, but im yet to be in that place with other christians where the risk means nothing and the heart everything. I dont know if thats because its not the right attitude, or the situation wasnt right, but jesus ending up on a cross doesnt seem very sensible.
still to come
cheeky one on the bus,
blown away,
baptismo de la maximismo
the team,
call to sacrifice,
got frustrated,
lapped the show?,
the team
So who was on the team? leader was mark a londoner 26 really sound and wise and mature, birthed and turfed a church already, knows the score but likes prog house and trance :( Steph total legend, she is ginger, has done a dance degree and works for 24-7. Charlie a really funny, joyful girl who is full of raw spiritual power. Then there were two swedish girls anna and josefin who werent with us all the time but had a habit of showing up at just the right moment...
call to sacrifice
when the four of us got together and prayed for each other properly it was pretty cool, definately feeling the prophetic flow, then when my turn came mark, said it was a time of challenge, where i needed to be sacrifice, and that i could have a grand life just living in my talents and gifts but it was just costing compared to what could happen if i was prepared to let God do all He wanted. scary! i started reading ezekiel during some quite times, and had a bit of a mad head on me, feeling the weight of what it would mean to say yes to this and frekin out a bit...
frustration
during days before we were chilling and walking and the conferance is just so big (30 events everyday and night) it was hard to grasp where to go and t o feel like we were actually being of any use. mark's philosiphy was one of a chilled approach and doing life there as a natural expression of mission, but super intense graham sometimes found that a bit difficult...
lapped the show?
outside starbucks on the way home one night were this couple from Ohio (where i spent a month in the summers of 99 and 01) who told us this story of how they were moving down south with the girls brother when they got involved in a high speed police chase (her bro was a bit dodge) but when the police caught the car arrested the brother and found the couple were innocent, they just dumped them on the road and they had no cash to stay anywhere or get home.
the bro might have gotten out the next day so they could at least have gotten some $ from him or whatever so they wanted to stay around for another day, but were scared about sleepin on the beach again. mark bought them dinner and we prayed with them, them the four us left and discussed what we might do, charlie was up for getting them a room and it just reminded me so much of me back in mexico, so i was up for getting them a bus and/or giving them one of our hotel rooms, mark, who has professional experiecne of working with the homeless decieded it was too big a risk of us maybe being thrown out of the hotel if they tried to steel stuff or whatever. Steph felt the same as mark and they were in charge so we went with the conclusion that we would try and see them tomorrow and maybe get them a ticket if it hadnt gone well with brother. it really sucked walking away from them, i respect mark as a wiser older more responsible Christian and he was the leader, but im yet to be in that place with other christians where the risk means nothing and the heart everything. I dont know if thats because its not the right attitude, or the situation wasnt right, but jesus ending up on a cross doesnt seem very sensible.
still to come
cheeky one on the bus,
blown away,
baptismo de la maximismo
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