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.
“Ya Beauty!”
Is beauty simply ‘in the eye of the beholder’? Surely, it’s so much more!? Beauty can be enjoyed, experienced, and explored through taste, touch, smell, hearing and the 6th sense of spiritual ‘soul-sight’? Yet, is beauty always subjective, dependent upon the person engaged by beauty? In the art world artistic creativity can provoke opposing views, gorgeous to one and thoroughly ugly to another. Other words [...]
Buts & Butts
“No buts it’s got to be butter!” went the old advert for a leading butter brand. ‘But’ is a useful word, signalling a change or emphasis in a sentence: “I admire the tenacity of Boris [...]
Unlikely Hero
Do you know ‘Mr Rogers’? Or should I say ‘who he was’ as he passed in 2003, aged 75. I just watched ‘A wonderful day in the neighbourhood’, starring Tom Hanks, on Netflix. Previously, my [...]
Everyday Christmas
In a festive family quiz we had a dispute over whether the 12th day of Christmas is the 5th or 6th of January. IE. Do the 12 days start on 25th or 26th December? The [...]
Tock-Tic 2022
Another year of Grace gobbled by ‘Tock Tic’ has me looking in the mirror and wondering who this glaikit guy staring back at me is. Reflecting on 2021 I’m immensely grateful for God’s provision and [...]
Yakety Zak!
Want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans. But be careful not to laugh at God’s plans for you! Zak & Elizabeth were well on in years with a pensioner bus pass, when angel [...]
God of Surprise
“Just can’t wait for Christmas!” Well you’ll just have to, but ‘how you wait’ is important. Advent is a season of patient waiting and hopeful expectation. But, all too easily we slot into a familiar [...]
All in This Together
More madness, mayhem & meaning coming your way my friends! It’s that time of year when Fr Wullie & I get singing, dancing and rope y’all into the Fun, Laughter, Advent Adventures and Christmas Message [...]
Retreat to Advance
It was the last thing I wanted. I was busy and feeling constrained by time. This Retreat would bump my weekly day-off to Monday, ‘again’. And I had the perfect excuse to dodge our church [...]