Death

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Death will be featured in my next book, which has the working title of Highways, Byways and Cobblestones.

Thank you so much for reading ‘out for lunch’. If you would like to contribute toward the running of out for lunch or donate money towards my writing projects, please click on the donate button. Thanks Kel.

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Also to buy a copy of a church for others, Ta! or Saint Nobody, please click on the cover.

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One man why?

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One Man Why? will be featured in my next book, which has the working title of Highways, Byways and Cobblestones.

Thank you so much for reading ‘out for lunch’. If you would like to contribute toward the running of out for lunch or donate money towards my writing projects, please click on the donate button. Thanks Kel.

To return back to the poetry page click here.

Also to buy a copy of a church for others, Ta! or Saint Nobody, please click on the cover.

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2010 Calendar

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If you would like to buy a 2010 calendar this year, please consider buying mine. The non-digitally altered photos are all taken buy me and consist of places and flowers that have caught my attention. The calendar costs €18:50 or US$24.99, I get US$6per sale. Btw for you Kiwis it is a Northern Hemisphere calendar, if you would like a southern version please ask and I will make one. To see the calendar just click on the picture.

Cheers Kel

Mechanical Love. (The cartoon)

Hey, just want to share this cute cartoon with you. At the mo once a month I am teach on ‘The Message of the Cross’. For every teaching I try and create a fresh cartoon trying to portray part of the message. This is last Sunday’s attempt. The focus of the teaching was on ‘The Fall’ and the relevance of the ‘Tree of Knowledge of good and evil’ and of free choice.

Check out below the cartoon to get the relevant bit of teaching.robot-2

Hey, just want to share this cute cartoon with you. At the mo once a month I am teach on ‘The Message of the Cross’. For every teaching I try and create a fresh cartoon trying to portray part of the message. This is last Sunday’s attempt. The focus of the teaching was on ‘The Fall’ and the relevance of the ‘Tree of Knowledge of good and evil’ and of free choice.

Check out below the cartoon to get the relevant bit of teaching.

God has not programmed us to be a mechanical robot that does not know how to disobey. No, for indeed God has given us freedom of choice. We can say no to God and perhaps most of the world does!

Picture it this way. You are a parent with a beautiful four-year-old daughter. God has programmed your daughter to say at fifteen minutes to the hour every daylight hour ‘I love you daddy/mummy’. This is not love and it would very quickly mean nothing to you. However if out of the blue your daughter (or anyone else at that) came to you and said, ‘I love you’, you would feel really special.

That’s the way God wants it. He wants to hear our praise to him, our love for him because we can, because we choose to.

Good News

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I could not believe the BBC head line on the radio the other day. It said “Good news, just nineteen American lives lost in Iraq this month”. I wonder how you would feel if one of those lives was your husband, son, brother or father.

They also mentioned that about five hundred Iraqi citizens were killed last month, but the 500 seemed to be less important that the 19.

Anyhow that is all, cheers.

Surfin’ the Tension

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Just a little cartoon for a powerpoint. Am trying to push home the point that we a called the “surf the tension” between the now and the not yet. ‘Tis basic kingdom of God teaching. Will be more to come. Cheers 🙂

Dyslexia

Okay, this is kind of a strange but good story. We spent most of last week at a conference. There were lots of people there that we did not know that well. Over the supper table one evening I happened to mention that I am dyslexic, it turned out that five of the six of us at the table were dyslexic. It was the first time that I had ever discussed the complexities of living with dyslexia with other people who share this condition. We had fun as we shared our horror stories and laughed a lot as we explored who had what symptoms.

Afterwards one of my supper guests asked if he could pray for my dyslexia. I was unsure, because I thought he might have asked God to heal it. I am not sure if either God or I want that. I am not sure how much of my artistic and social justice gifts would be lost if God took the dyslexia away. Anyhow he prayed that God would take away the condemnation and low self-esteem that most dyslexic people suffer from as a fruit of a lack of understanding from authority figures and peers.

For me this supper was the highlight of an excellent conference.

This picture I painted this morning. Because of my dyslexia I find it very difficult to fill out forms under pressure. When I have to write in boxes, I find that both the boxes and the words start moving on me and often in different directions. This picture is a good example of how I see letters, words and boxes. They just keep moving.

The painting was strange to paint because I was painting out of my weakness, the boxes were moving as I was trying to paint them.

Anyhow that is me. Drop me a note if you are dyslexic and reading this. Cheers

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I have not read all of this website and cannot take responsibility for it, however it looks good and looks as if it is worth a read. Please check it out. https://dopasolution.com/what-is-dyslexia

This is a copy of the message I received from the people at this website, it is interesting.

Hello,

I just came across the Out for lunch piece, “Dyslexia.” Nice job! As a heads up, you linked to Wikipedia.org which is not WC3 accessibility compliant for people with serious dyslexia or cognitive disabilities.

I launched a website, Dopa, about reading and writing that is fully accessible. My new version of the Wikipedia piece has the needed accessibility html/code and design elements.

Would you mention my article on the Out for lunch page for those that with dyslexia that rely on web accessibility? The URL is: https://dopasolution.com/what-is-dyslexia

Best wishes,
Tina Richardson
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@tinarichardson
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