...... I have worked midst it for years and still do and it hurts ..... .......
What can we do?
Being
peace lovers
not enough
being
peace
MAKERS
is
.......... make it ..........
Love
loving
not
enough
instead
make
love
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... this Dunford conference house - NOT centre ..... and this week-end was special for so many. I think so many humans feel a bit isolated and have role conflicts when working for the ymca ..... yes even in a Christian Association.
Mind you - those who are not a thought out/active person of faith ..... THEY would feel like that too.
I like the thrust of both belonging side by side and working out of spiritual things - together. Of course I like the individual ymcas having a distinctive strategic Christian mission.
Loved the buzz in the workshops and I got some excellent feedback ....... the gang left tooled up with loads of ideas to add to their existing repertoire.
I will slip a few more pix in of this fine event .....
you are beautiful ....... get my eNewsletter due out soon - so sign up or miss dat ting ....
bhp
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.......... I like that - seeing that at least 80% of communication is non verbal ......
Could I draw your attention to the item below as boring as it may sound zzzzzzzz
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.... below is something I clicked for the met Region of the ymca ......... there is a new one every day this week from a different person ....
bhp
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......... Michael my friend has sent me these words .. ..... and I tink it is beautiful ....... for your soul ..... I offer ..........
THE FIRST OF THE GANG ......... MORRISSEY
you have never been in love
untill you've seen the stars
reflect in the reservoirs
and you have never been in love
until you've seen the dawn rise
behind the home for the blind
we are the pretty petty thieves
and your standing on our streets
where Hector was the first of the gang
with a gun in his hand
and the first to time
the first of the gang to die/oh my
Hector was the first of the gang
with gun in his hand
and the first to do time
the first of the gang to die/oh my
you have never been in love
until you've seen sunlight thrown
over smashed human bone
we are the pretty petty thieves
and your standing on our streets
where Hector was the first of the gang
with a gun in his hand
and the first to do time
the first of the gang to die
such a silly boy
Hector was the first of the gang
with a gun in his hand
and a bullet in his gullet
the first lost lad under the sod
and he stole from the rich and the poor
and the not-very-rich
and the very poor
and he stole all hearts away
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... of these out of a muesli box measure scoop - M&S actually .... but too tired to talk tonight so will see you tomorrow ...... is that a date?
Got caught up in the M25 shut down today - an oil tanker had overturned on Friday and there is four day clean up ...... a two hour journey turned - twisted - sad - tired - slow - into a nearly 5 hour journey through urban London ...... through Croydon, Streatham, Brixton, and the Tower Bridge ........ and home to lager lager Romford ....... stink ....... see you tomorrow.
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...... I am at the 'Can Opener' conference in Dunford House in Midhurst, W Sussex ............ we are opening the Can ...... it is a conference looking at the Christian and Spiritual issues within the ymca in England ........ funny .... I was born and always lived in England and yet I feel NOT English but of the world.
It was a slow day at first as I was in recovery from a busy week and then a slow drive here around the M25 which could be described as a 'car park' rather than a freeway!
We are opening the can in terms of looking at the issues around a Christian Movement which struggles to be and live out a distinctive faith.
I heard here that you can buy a shirt for £3 at a/s-da ..... confusing google .... who are owned by W-all stinking mart who rip off the poor around the world so you can buy trousers for £8 too.
Anita Rodick told us at Greenbelt that to shop at that supermarket ........ means we rob the poorest of the world so we get cheap clothes or/and food!
Working in hostels with homeless humans I am hearing constant words like these;
"I hate Christmas ......... "
It does me good to hear things like this and feel it.
I feel ok ....... but a little angry and yearning about life ...... I suppose it is about the rich and the poor and I am rich and feel the poor ........
He who was rich became poor .........
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