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wow, have I really not posted here for nearly a month? not for want of ideas – just haven’t found the time to work on those ideas and turn them into blog posts. partly it’s a question of having my … Continue reading
I wake up and you are there
how else would I cope
how would I get through this time of year
you know about the SAD, Lord
the daylight hours are so few right now
and seasonal depression tries so hard to drag me down
life feels so much harder
the to do list feels like a mountain to climb
I get discouraged when I think of
all that I haven’t done
all that I need to get done
and the daylight hours being so few right now
but waking up with all those thoughts and feelings
I know I’m not alone
I wake up knowing that you’re there
and that you love me
how else would I cope
© Meirav M. 2015
So apparently some western leaders have been talking about the Charlie Hebdo massacre and saying stuff like: this is nothing to do with Islam. And I think I kind of understand why they’re saying this – assuming they’re not just showing ignorance, I … Continue reading
yesterday, once again, people were murdered because they had dared to express views which offended someone else’s deeply-held beliefs, and that someone else’s deeply-held beliefs happen to include a belief that it’s ok to murder people who offend their beliefs. … Continue reading
Another Christmas over. Did it feel like a bit of a let-down, a bit of an anti-climax after all the rushing around, the preparations, the excitement? Or maybe you’ve got to the stage of not letting yourself get excited anymore, … Continue reading
Hanukkah: it’s not about the pretty candles.
Hanukkah starts this evening, and we’ll be lighting pretty candles and thanking God for his great miracles. But this year I decided to do something I’d never done before, and I’ve started reading through the book of Maccabees, refreshing my mind about stuff we’d been told at school, stuff which can easily get forgotten in the sentimentality of pretty candles, in the sweet, child-centred attitude to a holiday which celebrates something that happened at the end of a very gory war.
People died. People killed people. It wasn’t pretty.
Hanukkah is sometimes referred to as the Festival of Lights, but it is also sometimes called the Feast of Dedication, and this name gives a better clue as to what it’s celebrating – the rededication of the Temple after the Greeks had desecrated it, bringing idols into the place which was supposed to be holy to God. The Greeks had tried…
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There was this thing doing the rounds on the internet recently, someone’s attempt at summing up the Bible in a fun sort of internet lingo sort of way. You may have seen it, and you may have even smiled – … Continue reading
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I’ve been thinking. It’s to do with the word “relationship”, and… well, it started with reading a Christian post that talked about the difference between being a rule-follower and being someone who loves God and therefore seeks to please him. … Continue reading
I needed to remind myself why not…
