Sunday Scribe: Rediscovering Bone Broth
Let’s talk about bone broth. (Not the kind of article you were perhaps expecting, but variety is the spice of life and all that). As I continue to recover from […]
December Beckons…
A YEAR AGO, I was in Warsaw, Poland, for what I had no idea was about to become a very, very significant trip, indirectly, into new scary but faith-filled steps […]
Silver Linings Amidst Adversity
ONE year ago last week, I posted on social media (stupidly, might I add) about having been accepted to study Mental Health Nursing at one of the UK’s top institutions […]
XV: Chained Up In Debt Amidst A Manipulated New Paradigm Shift
We are in a new ERA, and we are in this for the long haul. No matter what you believe, with a country now chained up in £2 TRILLION of […]
Covid Tales (xiv): Seven Years On, No Songs Of Praise Shall Be Sung This Summer
(Ballycastle beach, 20/6/20) Exactly seven years ago the first proper blog post on emeraldscribe was published. It seems a lifetime ago, and yet it is quite apt and timely […]
Covid Tales 2020 (xiii) : The End Of The World As We Know It?
Just over three months ago today, the world as we knew it ended for me personally, and within a couple of weeks, most of you too. I flew home from […]
Covid Tales (xii): Ten Questions To Ask Yourself About Covid
Tonight I begin with a few prefaces. First of all, as they say in my part of the world, “don’t eat me” if you disagree with any of this. We […]
Covid Tales (xi): Generational Stillness
HERE’S AN over 100-year-old Irish oak chair I had the priviledge of restoring this past week or so of further pandemic lockdown in Northern Ireland. It was thrown out for […]
Covid Tales (x): More Scrutiny Needed Of Ongoing Draconian Measures
SO BORIS is back to work. Prayers have been answered, one might say. (And as I’ve written quite openly before, I’m not politically a huge fan of Boris Johnson, but I […]
Covid 2020 (ix): Two Years On
EXACTLY two years ago last night, I had the now infamous motorcycle accident in Redding, Northern California, where I was blessed to be living at the time. I shared very […]
Covid 2020 Tales (viii): How the pallet progressed…
ALMOST forgot to post before the week is out. In the interests of integrity because I said I would, here’s a wee visual of how the pallet effort progressed yesterday. […]
Covid 2020 Tales (vii) : Pandemic-inspired Pallet Creation Continued
So here we are. The UK has been in “lockdown” now since over 3 weeks ago, and today the almost inevitable happened, as Boris Johnson’s number 2 in charge, Dominic Raab, […]
Covid 2020 Tales (vi): Fresh Creativity
THERE’S so much I could write about the last 10 days, in this covid-19 pandemic lockdown, but I’m going to refrain myself in this post. I will say here that I’m […]
Covid 2020 Tales (v) : Good Friday Bad Friday
SO my midweek post became a Good Friday post. Sorry about that. My heart feels heavy today and my body and mind are quite tired. But I’m not complaining. It’s a blessing […]
Covid 2020 Tales (iv)
TODAY’S POST almost hasn’t happened. But I decided to keep the discipline and fulfill what I wrote I would last time, of posting again “on Sunday”. One of the good […]
Covid 2020: Part 3
A VERY interesting unexpected thing is happening since I’ve started posting these pathetic wee covid-19 period blog posts. This blog site has been receiving new and unexpected traffic from China almost […]
Covid 2020 Tales: (ii)
SPRING HAS sprung here in Northern Ireland, and yet it’s hard to fully appreciate it since the whole country and entire British Isles are on complete lockdown now due to […]
Covid 2020 Tales
FROM THE beauty of rural Northern Ireland, I write to you from the ugliness of covid-19 quarantine, in what already feels a bit like a strange prison type scenario after […]
Suffering Amidst The Miraculous
Following on from my sporadic social media post last Sunday night, I was not planning to write a blog post, but I felt it warranted it after its response. So […]
NI citizens are stirring against new extreme abortion law
Having had a break from social media completely for a wee while over the Summer, and an intentional pull-back from everything to focus on one or two specific things in […]
Shocking Facts About Northern Ireland’s New Extreme Abortion Regime
In mid June, when I was sick with a lower respiratory infection, something hideous and horrendous, as far as I’m concerned, was introduced in a completely sudden, shocking seemingly pretty […]
CHRISTIANS STILL HOMELESS TWO YEARS ON FROM THE MARAWI SIEGE IN THE PHILIPPINES
Two years after Islamic militants laid siege to the Philippine city of Marawi, Christians are still living in temporary shelters despite being desperate to return to their communities. On May […]
Nine Months On From Vietnam
On the eve of American Memorial day, and nine months on from a far-from-dull work-related trip to Northern Vietnam, I felt led tonight to share a few photos from the […]
Indian Elections: If BJP wins, Laws Preventing Conversion Away From Hinduism May Increase
This Thursday will see the results announced of India’s largest ever expression of democracy. However, what might it mean for some of the minority religious groups in the country? India’s […]
Family or Death: The Extreme Choice facing Many Christian Women
During Ramadan, the pressure on secret Christians in Islamic societies is more intense than usual. As the Muslim world celebrates Ramadan, (from the evening of 5th May until 4th June […]
Sunday Scribe: Sharing in Sufferings
Not a catchy title tonight. But suffering is real on planet earth. If you’ve lived here any length of time, chances are that you will have tasted some suffering at […]
If God is So Good & Jesus Really Rose, Why Are Most NI Christians So Powerless & Prayerless?
It’s Easter, yet I’m playing ‘Devil’s advocate’ a little here. I’m poking a little at Easter from within. Today on Easter Sunday, I thought I’d scribble a quick bit on […]
Palm Sunday
So just before Palm Sunday comes and goes, a quick word about Jesus on that day. The original Palm Sunday The week before being sent to his death on a […]
