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When I grow up I want to be me
Richard had more Star Wars figures than me. He had the AT-AT Walker, I was never allowed the AT-AT, too big you see. Richard also had a small but much coveted collection of Star Wars dressing up costumes, he was always Luke Skywalker, I had to settle for Darth Vader. I always wanted to be Skywalker. When I was 9 I wanted to be Richard.
Tags: Identity, Life, Made me laugh
Grace upon grace
John 1 v16 "And from His fulness we have all received, grace upon grace." I love the way God has a sense of humour and that He always disciplines us with tender love. My Mum came to stay over with me one night as my husband and two girls were away. She had put her rather expensive contacts lenses in her glasses case again instead of the proper little lens case thing. This is something she does often and I often give off to her about it. Anyway, first thing in the morning when we were barely human-like my inquisitive two-year old came straight into the room, promptly opened the glasses case and started to dance and jump up and down (she likes jumping, she does it a lot!) Mum shrieked and Mimi burst into tears. I ran into the room and mum explained what had happened. I bit my tongue instead of launching into “I’ve told u before...”etc (bit of role reversal I know). We found one but the other one was gone. We spent some time searching everywhere, Mimi helping even though she didn’t know what we were doing.
Tags: Lost & found, Made me laugh, Prayer
No fun is no fun
“A little footling round about, will stop you going up the spout.” Mr Willie Wonka. He was right, was Mr Wonka. Too much seriousness and not enough fun is really no good at all. Too many frown-line, wrinkly things on your forehead telling all and sundry that your brain is overloaded and weighed down with heavy stuff. Not good. Not enough fun. Very bad.
Tags: Christianity, Church, Church planting, CityGroup, Life, Made me laugh, Made me think
Doing life
Truth be told, I love colloquialisms. Moving to Belfast from Canada got that much more awesome when someone asked me “are you okay there?” which I quickly found out means “can I help you?”. Amazing. Some of my other favourites include, but are not limited to, the following “faffin' about”, “minger/mingin”, “eejit”, “your man there”, “that's dead on”. As well as ending your sentence with “like”, “but” and “just”. I may not be able to say any of those things in an Irish accent but I can pull it off. I still refuse to say “wee” or call cookies "biscuits". Now coming from another country and growing up with the family I have, I brought with me my own colloquialisms (“for reals”, “sketch”, “wicked cool”, “sorry”, “epic”, “totally”, “heck yes!”, adding “eh” to the end of my sentences and adding “bear” to the end or middle of someone's name. For example, my sister calls her husband ‘Rybear’, his name is Ryan). One that has seemed to have caught on, other than “come on now” or “that's awesome” is “let's do life together!”.
Tags: Life, Made me laugh, Made me think
“You and I are gonna live forever”
Ryan is part of Redeemer Central. Read the story of his amazing journey from being a stereotypical kid brought up in a Christian home, to living it like an Oasis song, to finding something special in the city.
Tags: Christianity, Life, Made me laugh, Made me think
Tags: Christianity, Church, Life, Made me laugh
Heaven
Music video by the acclaimed director Spike Jonze for the track Heaven by the great band UNKLE. When we saw this for the first time we just couldn't resist. It was quickly dispatched via e-mail to all who would listen. It's got to be one of the best music videos out there.
Tags: Art, Made me laugh, Music, Photography, Sport, Video