gone

in about 10 hours ill be boradin a plane to hungary,

i am going with 7 others, from dublin mainly ages from 19 to 31, a random band who agreed to let me be their leader and go house building in csurgo.

its cool cause i can remember when i felt like God challenged me to lead the team, sittin on a sofa in homegroup and now 6 months and €15,000 later we are all set, for some it will be there first time on a plane, most first time out of the western world, and adventure for sure.

you can keep up to date with our team blog

andfor me its my first time leading a team internationally, so please pray :) afterwards is going to good craic too, going travelling with no fixed agenda, just see what God is saying....

the pic is a bit mad, i searched google images for "gone" and it came up, so i thought id stick it on :) check out more here

rise up

I watched the film The Corporation its pretty good / mad. Mixed in with Pete Greig's Arise and build talk from Transmission, and my general feelings...

The way in which international corporations are currently functioning, with no accountability or independant montioring body, is naturally leading to them doing all sorts of seriously heavy and bad stuff, as the saying goes "Power corrupts and absolute power corupts absolutely".

But how could they be truly held accoutnable? most of the countries where they do some of the worst stuff, the government of that country bent over backwards to try and attract the corporation because overall they know it will help their economy, so therefore have no power whatsoever to try and hold them accountable.

If the WTO or World Bank stopped trying to represent these corporations and started worring about what sort of a would they are creating, maybe they could do something, but that would require a 180 degree turn in practice. A revolutionary change.

I think that to wait for those with all the power and wealth to give that up will not be within this generation. I think this is the challenge of our generation. We could enter these bodies and try and redirect them from the insdie, however their structures and beaucracy coupled with the level of change I belive to be essential means that i think an external opposing force will be the only way to effect the neccessary change.

Im not talking about some fight club stylee homework, more in the line of martin luther king or the fella in the photo. What if we formed and international coalition, and in the same day all travelled to our major ports and blocked the road? You see no matter what the company if they make it for cheap over there, they have to get it to the shop to sell it for deer here. That means there is a bottle neck of all these things at our ports.

To block the roads for a few days or a week, would be sufficient to get the worlds attention. It would take a lot of careful planning and communication to try and get the message through corporation owned news networks but could it work?

transmitted

what happens when you loose control?
where do you go?

i dont mean driving a car too fast but if you let go of everything that weighs you down or pisses you off and focus on one beautiful concept, person or being.

i was at Transmission for the weekend, I have never felt like I did there. Intensity of emotion, passion, dancing, prayer. It was raw and it didnt belong to a 2D spiritless reality. On the saturday night shakin like crazy to some awesome music, I felt like I touched the celestial realms. It didnt sound crazy when a lady later challenged us to pray for physical healing for each other, nor did the perpetual rhythm that we need to do something, not just pray or say something....


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london crying

just arrived in london last night, staying with a mate, he woke me up with a text after leaving for work asking me to find out why the tube wasnt working...
suddenly there are 6 bombs all over the underground and bus system of london. my mate ended up having to walk to work took him about 2hours in the crowds, its all a bit mad.

but its also a bit scary i grew up in belfast during a lot of terrorism but this is different, they didnt try to kill people but to stop the traffic, the FTSE dropped and the pound lost a cent against the dollar, that probably cost the country more than cleaning up after a huge bomb blast. also from a pr point of view in the middle east people who hate what the us and uk are doing in their part of the world are going to be a lot slower to condem something that cost money instead of lives.

but also the government response was a bit mad, they were called it power surges for the first few hours, properly trying to cover it up, and looping the same 3 minute clip all morning.

i am staying out at finsbury park which is about 20mins from the centre normaly but the streets are a bit subdued, everyone looking at each other a bit different...

laughin

this is a world time first, someone sent me something funny enough on email to link it from my blog, its Pulp Fiction in 30 seconds retold by bunnies, genius. check it out
its also my last ever day in work, it doesnt feel like nine months ago I first sat down at this computer and now its over. was it worth it? defo, year in industry teaches you a few things no amount of uni can... actually i hate it when ppl say stuff like that. "oh you wouldnt have any idea" I learnt a bunch of stuff here, I didnt learn in lectures, you might well not have your head as far up your own arse as me and not have to spend a year in an office to discover the stuff i have.
the most important thing i think i learnt, is that no matter what job it is on what scale(from head of the UN to the office cleaners) its still a normal human being, and therefore there is no reason why you and me cant talk to them on the same level, or get a job like them.
dont ever let anyone else tell you what you are going to do, from Paddy the sound heroine addict on the street to Juan the education minister of Cuba, we are all the same.

if you could pause reality tonight, where would you wake up tomorrow and what would you be doing?