Friday, August 21, 2015
Love is not a feeling .............
LOVE is not a FEELING
Love is a great feeling
but love isn’t a feeling.
I love so many people.
My heart goes out to so many people.
When I meet them for the first time
When I get to know them
When I feel uncomfortable with them
I love them ………….
Yet LOVE is not a feeling
Love is a decision
Love is a commitment
Love is beyond a feeling
Love is despite behaviour
Love is beyond it being reciprocal
Love is an acceptance of someone’s whole being
Love is even EVEN
acceting valuing forgiving
SELF.
So here I am pondering my feelings
and pondering this thing called love.
Love is something I believe in
I feel love - but somehow
practicing
being committed to loving someone
is deeper than just a feeling.
Feelings come in waves
Maybe they are
compassion
empathy
concern
yearning …….
Sometimes behaviour attitude violence aggression
is felt - and those feelings are not nice.
But then those feelings can be overridden by a deeper commitment,
the well being - the 'wholeness becoming' of that person.
So the encounter, the interaction, the relationship with a person
can be distasteful in our mouths
can be sleeplessness because of concern for own safety and/or this other.
But love can be present.
This can be love.
This commitment to accepting valuing another despite behaviour language ….
Can be love because there is a commitment beyond a feeling.
Love one another as I have loved you ………..
The greatest commandment is to love you neighbour - your enemy even.
Love is laying down your life for one another.
I was facilitating a training course for psychotherapists and counsellors,
and someone asked me a question in the coffee break.
‘What do you think about ISIS?’
I said 'they are beautiful humans'
every one
but their behaviour is atrocious.
I believe they are mainly young people
fighting for purpose/excitement/thrill/belonging/cause
led by a small number of older men who see the eradication
of others as an answer to their ideology.
Beautiful Humans too - but their values????
I believe they desperately need love in their lives.
Love beyond boundaries.
To love those who differ
Love those who commit crimes against them
Those who hate them ………..
Love WINS.
I don’t know what love is - I am yearning to become that sort of loving person.
My Mission Statement says this::
(What does yours say?)
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Thursday, August 20, 2015
Greenbelt next week - some Pipturesque
ABOVE
The largest ever poster saying
YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN PERSON
The Greenbelt Board when I joined in 1986 (until 2014)
The Rolling Magazine in action.
The RM Crew at lunch between the shows
a heard working fun loving lot.
The most popular messy games
right down your trousers or shorts with
BAKED BEAN TRIFLE
Interview before on stage Messy Games.
AND
The crew in preparation meeting
and posing for the camera!
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Knackered Reflecting on a Greenbelt Moment - Greenbelt Festival back in the day. I will always remember this day................
Knackered
Reflecting on a Greenbelt Moment
There I was at the Greenbelt Festival back in the day.
I will always remember this day.
It was like this ...............
I was leading the team and presenting the Rolling Magazine
and the Very Stinking Late Show .........
and it was around midnight ..........
After doing five x two hour +
wild wacky unique to Greenbelt
'Rolling Magazines Programmes’
during the Festival week-end ……
I stumbled into the late night big top
where Bruce Cockburn was quietly
strumming his guitar and talking to us .....
He was talking about the time he was visiting a refugee camp
with life sustaining suitcases of drugs.
He had brought the only drugs they had into the camp
to meet their massive need ……
Then - as he was there,
bringing aid and support to humans living on the edge of survival ….
... the helicopter gun-ships came and attacked the camp.
Then
he went into song
there in the Big Top
to knackered me ……
He then he launched into his song -
'If I had a rocket launcher" ……
...... and I wept.
Just listen to it.
I was leading a youth work project
in East London at this time -
working with street gangs.
I felt the same oppression there doing that work
as Bruce Cockburn was describing so powerfully ......
There in that big top, in a safe environment,
I felt the oppression which I was living under in a different context.
It cut me to the soul.
It inspired me to kick -
raise up out of my tiredness -
be refreshed and renewed and
determined to work with people
on the underside of the Thatcher led society
which we were in at that time.
Greenbelt saved my life.
Greenbelt was the instrument,
the meeting place,
where God placed his finger print on my soul.
Thanx to you both.
pip wilson BHP
Listen to the song ..................
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
NRK Video - Norway - that's the way to do an election
My beautiful friend Torgrim Grimstad,
and
my DJ Rolling Magazine man in Norway,
- here is his latest creation as a award winning TV Director/Producer for NRK the BBC of Norway
TRANSLATING MACHINE SAYS::
The election campaign is underway - it means that many political parties vying for the votes of the adults so the party with the most votes can affect how Norway should be managed.
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