I seem to be very busy yet get nothing done. So, time for a little bit of focus x
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Charlie Sheen
Is there any wisdom to draw from the car crash called Charlie Sheen? In all of us — or nearly all of us — there’s a little voice that tells us that our life would be better if we were paid $1 million a week. That life would be better if our partner carried out our every order instead of arguing the toss. That life would be better if we could just binge on our favourite drug, whether it be grog, food, self-obsession or something illegal. Charlie Sheen shows us what happens when someone is allowed, as he puts it, to be “grandiose”, to live without restraint of any kind.”
Richard Glover, “The Icarus Effect”, Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald
Who is your Hero?
Helen Skelton is my hero.
The Blue Peter presenter was teetering on a steel wire slightly narrower than a 10p coin suspended 217ft up between two of Battersea Power Station’s chimneys. 14 minutes and 160 yards later she became the first person to do the high-wire walk at the South London landmark, Battersea Power Station.
She trained for two months for the stunt in aid of Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day on March 18, completed her walk without a net, although she did wear a harness attached to a safety wire.
Who has been your hero this week?
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Gossiping
The other week I was watching Model Agency (who wasn’t!?) and there was this part where the guy from commerical booking has left angry and everyone was discussing it. Then the next day when he was back even Carol was talking to Anthony about him, although he was sitting so close that he could easily hear her had he wanted to. That got me thinking..
How much easier would life be if we just didn’t gossip? I admit , I myself am guilty of it as well, but when I think of somebody doing that to me, I get really sad. I try to be nice to people and love them, but I know I have my faults. For example, I talk a lot.. and I’m very self-conscious about it too! And every time after meeting a new person and leaving the room, I wonder if they are going to be talking about me behind my back. I know people don’t just sit around their whole life and talk about me, don’t get me wrong! I just know that there were those times, and I remember how much they hurt me. Realistically though, if you think about, there’s nothing good that would or could come out of gossiping right? Then, my question is, why do it at all? To hurt someone? To relieve yourself? Or just cuz we have nothing better to say?
One friend once told me that if we want to know how hard it is to undo the hurt and problems gossip and rumours cause, we could take a pillow full of feathers and let it out on the windy day. Then we would have to collect every single feather. Just imagine how difficult would that be!
I know this post doesn’t really make much sense, but I just wanted to write it, and just maybe next time when you think about saying something about someone, try thinking of a one nice thing and say that instead!
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Sarah Malarky blogged this recently about some online Christian debating which has been going on:
Love rolls up her sleeves and organizes the dishes in my kitchen the day of my move.
Love doesn’t ask IF I want her to bring me dinner, she just asks what I want and shows up on my doorstep.
Love puts her hair in a pony tail and helps pick me pick the lice eggs out of my daughters’ hair a couple weeks ago. Then she turns to me and, laboring in love, checks my scalp as I cry because everything has fallen apart.
Love sets up flowers on my kitchen counter and then acts as if it wasn’t him.
Love sits by me at the wedding where people would rather talk to everyone else. She makes me laugh and tells me she understands.
Love comments on my blog every day and finds the poetry in the mundane in a way that only my father could.
Love slows down to a jog when she could run so much faster than me. She wants to talk and our friendship is much more important than a personal record.
Love calls when she’s in town. Always.
Love drives to my house every night for 2 weeks straight to cook dinner and bathe the kids while I unpack the chaotic mess of boxes.
And above all, Love is okay if we disagree once in awhile.
I’m not sure where all the cards will land with the crazy online debate that continues to throw barbs at brothers and sisters, but I do know what Love is.
I know WHO Love is.
WHO represents Love to you?
John Galliano + Amy Winehouse + Rob Bell
So John Galliano, Amy Winehouse and Rob Bell are all people who have been on my mind. What have they in common?
1. John Galliano has been sacked from the role of head designer at Christian Dior.
He wasn’t fired for designing ugly dresses, or because the label is losing money or because he couldn’t do his job. Indeed his collections are covetable and he is envied by fashion designer wannabes worldwide.
Galliano was fired because he made anti-simitic remarks to some french ladies leading to the release of an online video in which an aparently drunken Galliano declares, “I love Hitler”.
2. I, along with thousands of others, bought Back to Black by Amy Winehouse at the height of her fame.
She was with her on-off husband Blake Fielder-Civil, being pictured wandering the streets barefoot, covered in blood and bruises. She had drug problems and mental troubles.
A week after I bought her album I happened upon a radio interview with Mr Fielder-Civil, father of Blake. He asked fans to boycott her music knowing how the fame was affecting their lives.
3. Rob Bell has been spread all over the hot Christian blogs this week with the release of a short film promoting his new book Love Wins.
In this film he poses several questions and gently implies that the book will address christian universalism – where everyone will go to heaven regardless of how and who they worship.
Predictably this has sent Church leaders and Christians everywhere into a frenzy firing out Scripture and arguments as to why this view is incorrect. Rightly so, but this is a different argument, not for tonight.
So, here’s the thing.
Can I still enjoy looking at a beautiful Chritian Dior dress without feeling uncomfortable?
Can I listen to Back to Black without dwelling upon the broken and dangerous relationship which lies at the heart of the lyrics?
Can I read a Rob Bell book without it tainting and confusing my own journey as a Christian?
What do you think? Would you boycott something amazing because of who created it?
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