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Escalator angel From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1523 days old)
Escalator Angel "Live in such a way that those who know you but don't know God will come to know God because they know you." - Anonymous The crisp February morning chilled the crowd that wai… more
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Escalator angel From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1523 days old)
Escalator Angel "Live in such a way that those who know you but don't know God will come to know God because they know you." - Anonymous The crisp February morning chilled the crowd that wai… more
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Dream From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1524 days old)
I've had the same dream/nightmare for many years with little variation. I walk up a dark hill at night time to a large, tall old fashioned house. I walk into the house whish is half derelict and sc… more
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Getting Introspective From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1525 days old)
My fiftieth birthday in November. I'm getting all introspective and maybe a little grumpy!! The changes I've seen in my life time are incredible. Its not just technology or the way folks dress. It… more
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Hell and Judgement From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1526 days old)
When I was young it was still fashionable to talk about Hell and the final Judgement. Some of the priests would have turned your hair white with sermons containing first hand reports of the terrible t… more
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Stones, ripples,ponds. From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1527 days old)
Just a quick response to the comment on my last post. I do not see God as an angry old man throwing thunder bolts at a sinning world. Each action of ours, good and bad is like a stone thrown into … more
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Hurricane Katriona From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1527 days old)
I suppose you can look at the killer hurricane from many levels. Firstly politically in asking questions about why the Federal Government was slow in responding. In questions of racial equality in wh… more
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Choices From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1538 days old)
What we find ourselves today is not an accident, but arises through a series of choices. Those that tend towards the good and those towards the bad.None of us, unless we be that purest of creatures a … more
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Loyalist Feud From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1542 days old)
I see on the news this morning that another Loyalist has been shot this morning. This time in Newtownards a country town just outside Belfast. The fued has been going on some time now. with the major … more
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The Past, the Present and the Future From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1543 days old)
When I was sixteen I saw someone walking in the distance. At once never having met him the thought came to my mind, 'This guy will be your oldest and dearest friend. You will be really close'. So it h… more
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Time From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1544 days old)
When you are young a year seems like a life time. When you get a little older, though the years fall like Autumn leaves. I cannot believe my school friends now look like such old foggies, fat and grey… more
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Drifting Thoughts. From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1545 days old)
Usually when I write my blog I have a very good idea what I am going to write. But to-night I haven't a clue, so lets go were the Spirit moves me. Let's just hope its to somewhere wise and kind!! Let … more
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Holy places of Power From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1546 days old)
There are places of holiness and of power in the world, many of them very ancient. I have often walked with my dogs over the Cavehill mountain beside Belfast and at one particular spot dog after dog h… more
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A Laughing Baby. From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1547 days old)
Its the Feast of Our Lady's Assumption body and Soul into heaven so I went to mass at Clonard Monastery, venerable and beautiful, for me the holiest place in Belfast City. I guess most people go to ch… more
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The Hound of Heaven From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1548 days old)
HOUND OF HEAVEN by Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907) A failure for so-long; a one-time opium addict; died of tuberculosis. His poems, mainly religious, are rich in imagery and poetic vision. I… more
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Dreams From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1548 days old)
We are taught from childhood to think rationally and logically about things in a very left brained masculine way in the West. Things like mysticism, shaminism, the unconcious, the spiritual, the other… more
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Forgiveness From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1549 days old)
Belfast, especially North Belfast,were I live is a patchwork of miles and miles of 'Peacelines', which keep Protestant and Catholic Christians from murdering each other. In a sense these are good t… more
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Guy in a Wheelchair From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1550 days old)
My taxi tales folks in wheelchairs and I meet a lot of interesting people that way. One was a young guy in his late teens who had been paralysed from the neck down whilst joy riding in West Belfast… more
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A Fading Light From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1552 days old)
Its in the nature of 'oul gits like me to look back fondly on the past with rose tinted glasses as see a lost Eden. So I guess most of you will take what I say with a very large pinch of salt. Still I… more
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God and te Pussy cat. From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1553 days old)
Someone once wrote that God is not a pussy cat. That we can't hold God, or own Him or treat him as a pet. True. Sometimes I think ofmHim as an accomplished dancer. Sometimes he holds us close to His … more
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The Shiners From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1553 days old)
You meet many, many different kinds of people when you are out taxiing. The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright wicked. Every now and again however to my surprise and delight I meet to my sur… more
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Gay Pride March From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1555 days old)
I got caught up in the Gay Pride March to-day as I was driving customers directly outside City Hall. I was very glad I was as it turned out to be very interesting! I vaguely recall the first Gay Pr… more
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The Implosion of Loyalism From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1556 days old)
Last night I drove along the Crumlin Road in North Belfast and saw an increasingly common event. Young Loyalists rioting, for the second night in a row with local police. It was the third Prime Minist… more
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Good and Bad From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1558 days old)
It sounds mad to say it, for know now that people do not say any such thing now in our modern, thouroughly sophisticated world. But I still divide folks into two categories the good and the bad. … more
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Faith From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1559 days old)
I lost my faith in God when I was nineteen. I can recall the time almost to the minute. I'd seen too much and hated too much to keep it. Now all the time before this I thought my faith was like a roc… more
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The Iraq War. From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1561 days old)
I remember picking up a BBC TV producer just as the crazy Iraq War was starting and we talked about the War. He told me that he talked in the course of his work here in Belfast to hundreds of differen… more
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Jean From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1562 days old)
Jean. Several years ago a good friend of mine, Father Bernard died, painfully of cancer. So when another friend invited me to join up as a part time volunteer at the Northern Ireland Hospice, Belfa… more
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Meeting God for the First Time From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1562 days old)
I was about four years old when I met God for the first. It was spring time and I was riding a beautiful red bike I had been given for Christmas up a hill near my home. I had always been concious o… more
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1969 From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1563 days old)
I was 14 years old back when the long war, the 'Troubles' started in 1969. After protesting for Civil Rights Catholic areas of Belfast were attacked by rampaging Loyalist mobs during a very hot summer… more
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End of the war. From
padraig
in Belfast Thoughts
(1563 days old)
Hi, my name is Padraig and I'm a 49 year old taxi driver from Belfast. This week the IRA declared the ending of a war that has gone on, one way or another since I was about fourteen. I should be delig… more