Hey ...... I have been off the planet and coming down to earth so I end up here late at night with tired fingers clicking ............. but something draws me to the keyboard as I want to discharge my soul in this very place with you - and for you - and myself I know that.
Telephoned India today
Caught Richard sitting on a beach, waiting to enter a Lighthouse and climb to the best view in town, with his beautiful young woman - Jenny. I spoke to them both.
Jenny was so beautiful to speak with ....... and she talked freely as if we had met so many times ............. and yet this was the first time we have looked into each others eyes ....... almost..... as much as you can on the 'phone. She is from the US and on a one year placement in Richard Town. She is from Portland.
Richard ....... what can I click about him? ........... he has been refused a visa and is still planning to come to UK and take up the place reserved for him in the YMCA College to achieve a degree in Informal Education.
I need to press a few buttons at this end to help his appeal process ...... and pray.
Before he left us some eight months ago, Joan and I bought him an iPod shuffle which can easily be slotted into a USB and be charged as well as download music from a cd or iTunes of course. He still is listening to the music I placed on the iPod Shuffle when I gave it to him .............. it was great music of course. He uses an Internet cafe to keep in contact........ and write this blog which he posted on the Greenbelt web-site this week.
Greenbelt Blog
Being Christian
richardvinod · April 3, 2006 @ 8:37 am
Hi friends,
I was surprised that the blog was been quite for a while. Hope everyone is safe and happy. Well its been a strange turn over for me, Almost five years ago I travelled to UK- a strange place with a diffrent culture and life style. But being and remaining has a christian was very challenging. Thanks to Greenbelt for helping me with my feelings and emotions in my struggles with my Faith.
I grow and still developing in my christain believes and faith a lot through GB. GB showed me an informal way of loving and serving God and the mankind.
Well coming back to India after 4 years, I felt very strange…..but all is good after all its a learning process…life here being a minority (christian) in this country…sometimes loses temper when you get in touch with the churches and its rules…. very strange…..sometimes feels like the churches and the priests are demons who are trying to sqeeze our neck. Its painful as I write this but doesn’t mean to hurt anyone.
Why the churches have to be formal???
Why they think that they have to control the lives of human beings???
Where did the old service oriented approach of the churches and the priests gone????
Read the rest of his blog on www.greenbelt.org.uk and view the fab site while you are in there ................ it has stax of new stuff about the festival in August.
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