Invisibility
Adeleh ·
Being on a Mountain Leader training course was like learning to be invisible: If you are good, you won’t look at the map. When you look at the map, they think you […]
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Some Notes on Ornithology
Adeleh ·
(or: How I went on the Ignite Weekend Away and Came Home Without a Bible Wild Geese Migrating geese come to Ireland for the winter, because it is warmer than […]
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A Blog in Two Parts
Adeleh ·
Part OneOn the road, on our road,the bus stop, his bus stop — lights flashing —Garda cars, ambulance, stopped traffic.Someone crying out, lying on the road,choking fear. ‘It isn’t your […]
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What next, if?
Adeleh ·
What next, when…? ‘Jesus came to make people free. He wanted us to choose goodness freely. He did not crave the base worship of the slave. But free choice can […]
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Bubbles
Adeleh ·
Bubbles. We live in them, so they say. We convince ourselves they are real and that this is how life is. We talk to people who share our point of view, we […]
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Acting in Hope
Adeleh ·
We are not hopeful. We wait. We wait for horizons to open, for ideas to flourish. For plans and dreams to come to fruition. We wait, trying to console ourselves with the concrete, […]
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2020: A Developing View
Adeleh ·
This blog started life like a little maggot-y thing. Small and moaning and grim. Trying to pretend it was logical and thoughtful and dispassionate and realistic. I didn’t like it […]
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Bedtime
Adeleh ·
It’s bedtime. Again. This becomes a bigger thing when actual real life starts again with actual real school in an actual real building and actual real work with actual real […]
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Re: Complaint – Suffering
Adeleh ·
A House in the Middle of a Street Somewhere in Ireland Over the Way Close By Heavenly Realms Incomprehensible High Up Far Off And Also Here On Earth 13th April, […]
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Faith, Hope & Love
Adeleh ·
Faith, hope and love. Probably the three most integral concepts of our church. 1 Thessalonians just overflows with church love. It seeps out of every sentence. You only need to […]
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