Pick one?
Which one is you/your feelings right now?
Touch the screen - it makes it more real.
This is working on your
Emotional Intelligence - and that cannot be bad.

Dear Pip

I do hope you don't mind me contacting you, I appreciate you're a very busy man, but your work came up in conversation today and after visiting your website I wanted to drop you a line.

You don't know me, I was just one of many people you met many, many years ago at two youth weekends organised by the illustriously titled 'Anglican Young People's Association' (AYPA) and you made a tremendous impression on me.

Two things I remember most of all - the first is that we are Beautiful Human People! The other was this.... on both weekends you brought a young man who, if memory serves, was called Patrick (I could swear his pic is on the website). Anyway, he'd been on a trip to South America and he told us some of the things he'd seen on that trip and sang to us. That was to be a pivotal moment in my life as just a few days earlier I'd experienced God's very real call to work for Him abroad. As immensely intense as that experience had been, I'd asked for two signs to confirm His request! He kindly obliged - once by a friend suddenly handing me a leaflet that week with the words 'Is God calling you to mission?' emblazoned across it, and then again during the time that 'Patrick' was talking to us. I did indeed go abroad for 6 months to Uganda. I thought I'd be going back to work there again for a few years but, of course, God knows the plans He has for us and I ended up marrying a Ugandan I had known even before I went there!
We will have been married 15 years next week.

All this was a very long time ago now, in fact next week I'll be 40!
I fell away from my faith for a couple of years but even through my failures and insecurities I've never forgotten your words, that I'm a 'BHP'.

So that's why I'm writing to you - just to say '"thank you Pip".
Sometimes we just don't know how, or even if,
we're touching someone's life.
You have been such a blessing to mine.
God bless you and yours.

With love in Christ
Amanda

Late-night teens 'face greater depression risk'

Teenagers need at least nine hours sleep a night, say experts

Going to bed earlier protects teenagers against depression and suicidal thoughts, New York research suggests.

Of 15,500 12 to 18-year-olds studied, those who went to bed after midnight were 24% more likely to have depression than those who went before 2200.

And those who slept fewer than five hours a night had a 71% higher risk of depression than those who slept eight hours, the journal Sleep reports.

It is estimated 80,000 UK children and young people have depression.

............ "If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small." Brother Andrew

found on d web

Questions: a Radical Solution

March 22, 2010

tags: Pip Wilson

by Keith Hitchman

Many years ago I asked youthwork guru Pip Wilson a question. The question was, “How would you describe your churchmanship/theological position?”

I remember that Pip frowned. Maybe he didn’t want to answer. Maybe it wasn’t important to him. It was important to me…at the time. I wanted to have the whole thing nailed. So shortly after I joined a religious ‘Movement’ that had it nailed. No questions asked.

I still remember Pip’s answer. I must have asked a lot of people the same question around that time, but I remember Pip’s answer. After some thought, Pip said, “I am a Radical.”

I didn’t know what he meant at the time but I do now. It’s taken me twenty years, but I think that now I am getting it.

‘Radical’ means to get back to the root (radix [Lt] – root) of a thing.

So, what is the ‘root’ of this whole Jesus thing?

Love, that’s what.

I have just this minute stumbled upon Pip Wilson’s ‘Mission Statement’, which kinda sums up the whole thing. Talk about going full circle!

I really want to share with you my personal Mission Statement. I know It is a risk to share it…but I trust you.

Me – Pip Wilson – Mission Statement

- I will be an effective lover.

- I will live to love.

- Modelled on my developing commitment, understanding and faith in God.

- I will continue to believe, behave, and affirm that all individual persons are unique, special and valuable – beautiful human persons. I will demonstrate that, verbalise that.

- I will live to love myself, family, friends, colleagues and active socially and cosmically.

Pip Wilson, a Beautiful Human Person who became an Adult when he was 40

Motion changes emotion ..................

I don't believe in Charity
Charity is so vertical.
It goes from the top to the bottom.
Solidarity is horizontal.
It respects the other person and learns from the other.
Most of us have a lot to learn from other people.

Eduardo Galeano

"To the untold millions who knocked on doors and made phone calls, who organized and mobilized out of a firm conviction that change in this country comes not from the top down, but from the bottom up: this moment is possible because of you."
(On the day the Health Bill was passed)

Barack Obama

**
Enrich another
**
I have been busy with all-sorts.
I guess you see time/life slip away?
**
Had Gill & Steve around last night.
Gill has lost her Mother in the past few weeks.
The loss of your Mother is maybe the most significant passing.
The person who gave us life,
carried us through total dependency
and caring and loving through adulthood ..............
So it was a privilege
that they wanted to drive to Wilson Mansions
To hang out, meal out, chat things out ...........
**
I had been in London town Saturday.
So I only made it home by 6pm.
I had a meeting with my Blob Tree partner Ian.
It is always madly exhilarating.
I left our meeting with so many
new ideas for publications
and mainly the Game/Activity/Motion ones.
(Motion-Changes-Emotion-Series.)
We get on a roll and combine experiences.
He is a Teacher - formal education,
I am a facilitator of experiences, informal educator.

We have got lots of good ideas to present to our publisher
next month - and then Bingo -
I hope we will begin see
new products flow over the next twelve months.

I will tell you about them in coming days -
maybe you can add to the ideas?

**
let them eat cake
**
The person next to me
goes quiet
eyes drift to the ceiling
face is still
they are somewhere else .........
I always ask
'What are you thinking about' ......
**
Out comes something meaningful for them
always something which captivates them.
always some spin off from our conversation.
I love those moments.
Precious ...........

**
The Sheilas are telling me my Jeans look terrible
They want me to do a fashion show wearing them all
then
They want me to dump most -
and Joy, stylist of course, want to take me JeanShopping on Wednesday!

**
What do you do when you see someone alone?
**
I have 4/6 books always on the go.
Always two on commute.
A little stack in the lounge.
An office full.All non-fiction
I only read non-fiction on summer holidays,
and we have stopped them.
On Thursday the latest Lee Child/JackReacher book was delivered.
My favourite author = fiction.
TODAY - SUNDAY I picked it up -
locked into my iPod, PeteTong/TrevorNelson/GillesPeterson/BenjiB
and, as Joan watched endless streaming Premiership football on TV,
I started to read - yes fiction AT HOME/INDOORS/NOT WORKING !!!
I have just left it ............. already 3/4 way done - fantastic.
How can I do such a relaxing thing when my inbox is rammo
(Just checked - 156 emails!!)
**
I am gripped by a memory
from a young human
telling me about childhood
"I felt, I still feel REJECTED"
**

Zig is in bed
Joan is in bed
Jack Reacher sleeping for the night -
I must hit the zzzzzz myself.
BUT ...................
**
I wonder how you are feeling
Rejected?
Lonely?
Incomplete?
Maybe other words would describe .......
Maybe positive/Negative/Bland?
Stay with me -
I want to explore all these words/feelings.
I want to share my own -
I want to connect with you -
I want to be more than a one-liner in Facebook
I want to go deep with myself and
maybe we can hold hands? ...................

**
Can you believe that a human can grow older
without having one single person
ever holding their hand?
I weep ..............
**

Pram pushers

-- Posted from Pip's iPhone
You are beautiful.