We have now finished the first week of COP26. COP stands for Conference of the Parties. The 2021 Glasgow meeting will be the 26th meeting, which is why it's called COP26. It will be attended by countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - a treaty agreed on in 1994. A …
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The world is built on kindness — Psalm 89
Psalms of the Sons of Korah? Why am I writing about Psalm 89 as if it were a Psalm of the sons of Korah when it obviously is not. It is attributed to someone else, it is Ethan the Ezrahite's only attributed psalm, and it is longer than anything that the sons of Korah wrote. …
I am amazed that Christ can work through me
Can God use autistic people I know that I have upset people, which makes me sorry and sad, because I never set out to upset people. Two weeks ago I had a massive meltdown. Six days on I was still suffering from the physical repercussions of that. Let me explain what I mean by meltdown: …
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There is no light at the end of the tunnel — Psalm 88
Psalms of the Sons of Korah For more than fifty years following her initial visions and locutions, Mother Teresa was wrapped in dark, pitiless silence. Only once in that time did she see a glimpse of God, the rest of the time she felt as if the doors of heaven were bolted against her.S he …
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Glorious things of thee are spoken — Psalm 87
Psalms of the Sons of Korah Some hymns are little more than setting the words of the psalm to fit a tune and adding a rhyme, The Lord's my shepherd and The king of love my shepherd is are both more or less direct translations of Psalm 23. There are lots of examples of this …
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“Oxytocin didn’t help kids with autism.”
Yes, I know it says kids with autism and most autistic people prefer to say autistic kids, but it is a quote. I know it's wrong. This will be old news when this blog is published, one week old in fact. Last Wednesday, 13th October 2021, as reported in Stat, statnews.com. There are things in …
Spectrum 10K: Autism study ‘did not open’ at NHS hospital, despite researchers saying it did – Liam O’Dell
Medway Maritime Hospital was listed as one of 15 healthcare providers which will act as a “research site” for the controversial DNA project, but a Freedom of Information request submitt… Source: Spectrum 10K: Autism study ‘did not open’ at NHS hospital, despite researchers saying it did – Liam O'Dell
MP assassinated
Friday last week was a dark day for politics. Conservative MP Sir David Amess, Member of Parliament for Southend West was stabbed whilst holding a constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church Leigh-on-Seaand later died at the scene. Police said there were possible links to Islamic extremism. Sir David AmessCopyright free image from Wikipedia Commons This …
You, O Lord, are good and forgiving — Psalm 86
Psalms of DavidPsalms of the Sons of Korah? There are a whole bunch of commentaries on Psalm 86 which look at the meaning of the psalms in isolation: This is not one of them, I am looking at how the psalms fit together, and also at the poetic structure and how that affects my understanding. …
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Where do I go from here?
I need to find some time to pause and reflect and prayerfully discern what and where my energies need to go. This blog has become something I never guessed it would be, and it is a little fractured. It is split between posts about autism and posts about Christianity. The image above shows something that …
