..... strange days ..........Moslems eh?
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Bombers were Moslems - the racists will be having a field day with this ......
I am out doors on my mactop drinking Czech beer, a cigar, just had a chicken tikka balti take-away ....... Joan is away.
Listening to Bugge Weseltoft - a favourite Norwegian artist
.A keyboard man.
Gentle soul stuff.
A Jazz man.
During the day I have been listening to my two latest albums;
Fat Freddys Drop
Dwight Tribble ......... 'Love is the Answer'.
"Why am I afraid to tell you who I am
- because if I tell you who I am - and you don't like who I am - that is all I have"
My favourite book of all time.
I am reflective right now. The cigar is finished. I am trying to dig deep to my deeper sense of myself. The bomb thing concerns me. Not about me. It is deeper than personal unease on the Tube this week and again tomorrow.
I am concerned about the impact on lives and our society - communities.
How we live together.
I want to build cohesion - 'coexist' ......
We don't normally but this bomb-gig is the end of the spectrum.
Death always is.
I work and have worked all my life, with those young humans who are living at the offending end of society. I have moved over the years to live it out with them and not oppressing them with anything I believe ............... and when there is a breakthrough in terms of communication - real connection, it is on 'their' terms - on request.
Like a door opening, I am invited in. Despite it being me and despite me having all these differing values and beliefs. I am welcomed in.
I learn from them.
They take from me.
The most violent.
The hardest of hearts.
ONE.
That is the way in the current context it seems to me.
It cannot be 'them and us'.
It needs incarnational living which was modelled by .........
He who was rich became poor .............
I remember seeing a cartoon with a human on his knees saying - "God I want to be a Missionary"
The voice from above replied;
"Go to Liverpool"
Now it would be
"Go to Leeds"
There are places which need Missionaries
- sometimes called 'Youth and Community Workers'
What's been done in the name of Jesus
What's been done in the name of Buddha
What's been done in the name of Islam
What's been done in the name of man
What's been done in the name of liberation
And in the name of civilization
And in the name of race
And in the name of peace!
Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else."
- "Justice" by Bruce Cockburn
