Category: Personal

I was in the local shopping centre at lunchtime and they have a big stand up selling calendars. For the past couple of years I’ve had an Old New York calendar, with old black and white photos of the City. I saw the Edward Hopper calendar too, and now I’m torn as to which I should get. Maybe I’ll just get both.
I reckon I’ll use the calendarclub website – maybe I’ll get one of those desk calendars – farside or “worst case scenario”

My sister works in a hospital and was really keent o get a pair of Crocs Shoes before going off on holiday on Saturday. I tried a few places online but all were sold out of the size, colour and style she wanted. I eventually ordered from (bizzarre name) Fat Shoes Day. They emailed me to say that they aslo didn’t have them in stock and wouldn’t have in time, so my sister decided on another colour. Given the short time I didn’t think I’d get them in time, but I phoend them up and, since they’re based in Edinburgh and I work there, they hand delivered them this afternoon! how’s that for service. So shout it loud – buy your crocs from FatShoesDay (and while you’re at it, aks them why the strange domain name!)

Yes, they used to produce music on these big black disc things:

. . .My embarrassing first ever record.

After hearing that President Bush may have started the war in Iraq because God told him to, I got to thinking about what God would say if he had the chance.

There will be people who say they hear the voice of God on a daily basis, but I’m not one of them. As a Christian, I have a relationship with him, and certainly he communicates with me, but not in that way. I get communication through what others say, what I read day by day, and in the way my life is guided.

That said, I do believe that I heard God’s voice once. It was part of an exercise where we were trying to hear him, so you can argue that I just wanted to hear something. My question is this – if God could talk to you directly, what would he say?

“Stop picking your nose!”
“Go and feed the Hungry!”
“You’re a really bad person!”
“Sometimes I wonder why I bother!”

I suppose it depends on your point of view. I watched and enjoyed Joan of Arcadia. It was fun, and althrough it’s not real, some of the points it raised were interesting. Joan was told to do many things, often in mysterious and obscure ways. I don’t ever remember God telling her what I believe he told me.

So, by now, you think I’m a psycho, but my point is that it doesn’t really matter whenter I heard him or not. I believe that what he said would have been the same as what I heard, even if I imagined it.

He said “I love you!”

That’s it. No fanfare, no big speech, no instructions on Ark building, just a simple phrase. The point is that that is where it starts. WHatever I may need to do after that, or about that come second to the primary impetus for his relationship with me.

I can’t recommend Philip Yancey’s “What’s so Amazing about Grace” enough.

I’d have to be very careful if I thought he was telling me to take decisions which affected the lives of billions.

Alan, a friend from work, has just made this site – it looks amazing. You should check out black tax statistic

I’ve had it in mind to post something over the past few days. I work in Edinburgh, where there have been lots of protests, even a few small riots because of the G8 meeting taking place nearby.
Then yesterday there were the attacks on London. At that point all of my little annoyances about the increased police presence (I’m glad they’re here, it’s just strange the effect it has on you when they’re so visible) went out the window. Then I read about some Comments made on a Fox “News” program inferring that the attacks were a good thing because they concentrated minds of world leaders on terrorism rather than global warming or debt relief.
I refuse to live in a climate of fear where terrorism is the primary issue!