Neil’s Blog
Most Mondays Rev Neil blogs on issues that get his soul, cells and creative juices working. It’s a discipline he has valued since blogging from Delhi’s CW Games in 2010.
Neil loves connecting with people and especially enjoys comments and conversations resulting from his blogs. Locally, The Irvine Times print his blogs and photos, while internationally they reach a wider audience and community of world-wide bloggers.
Stories of Forgiveness
Spats between Donkey and Shrek, princes Harry and William, Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears, Kardashian sisters; racial conflict in South Africa, ethnic cleansing in Rwanda, conflicts and wars across the world; family and friendship breakdowns, bullying in schools, streets, and workplaces, etc. The World echoes with pained cries and calls for revenge and justice. ‘The Forgiveness Project’ involves people of faith and no faith and [...]
Believable
“I don’t believe it!” cries Victor Meldrew in ‘One foot in the grave’. “I can’t believe it!” claims my cycling buddy Scott. And “Unbelievable!” are the responses to the testimony of Erzad Suleiman (in a [...]
More Barneys Please!
‘More Barneys Needed!’ was my Sunday focus headline. This confused the owner of a cat called Barney, who strongly believes ONE Barney is quite enough, thank you very much! However, Barnabas was a key character [...]
Disorientating
‘Disorientating’ is one word for the change of era, and era of change, we are experiencing in these days. Yesterday our united church ‘prayer walk’ took us ‘up the Munt’ (Dreghorn) for a glorious view [...]
Why share!?
“Why not keep it to yourself, Neil? Why do you ‘have to’ share your faith in Jesus Christ?” Straight shooter Scott McK’ is one of the most honest blokes I know, too honest at times. [...]
Bono’s Love
It was no contest! U2 were playing across the road from the Sunday evening service I regularly attended. A long queue of punk rockers waited to shake off near freezing temperatures with the heat of [...]
Deepest Belonging
That moment when you tell God that He owes you an apology. It’s where St Teresa of Avila found herself in the depths of despond, St John of The Cross’s ‘dark night of the soul’, [...]
Unsung Heroes
On my epic 3 ferries (to Bute, Colintraive, & Gourock) Saturday cycle, I saw 2 red squirrels as an ‘omen’, and was overjoyed to learn that Killie had beaten Rangers (for the uninitiated, 2 red [...]
Team Trinity
“GUYS! You’ve lost me, & cut me loose!” On the final stretch between Largs & Irvine, any incline saw my cycling compadres boost beyond my reach and leave me languishing behind. My cries evaporated behind [...]
Bonnie Banks
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three rights do make a ‘left’! That’s how it felt finding my way across the Erskine Bridge and going left rather than, my usual, right along the Forth [...]
Beamed BLESSING
God Bless You Family, Enemy, Neighbour, Colleague, & Friend! Sprinkled and soaked in summer rains, a wee Irish blessing for you: “May the blessing of the rain be on you—the soft, sweet rain. May it [...]