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Mental / Emotional Health

Posted in Personal on Sat, Jun 08 2013 - 09:22 AM

I sometimes get down and I am grateful to friends who wait for me with patient encouragement Everyone of us have mental health the same way we have physical health! From time to time our mental health may take a dip which is normal & a part of life. Exercise, our diet & going easy on ourselves can help to improve our mental health....

Happy Birthday, Jim Carley

Posted in Personal on Sat, Feb 09 2013 - 08:39 AM

Today is the birthday of my daddy Pastor Jim Carley. There is very little I could say that would do justice to this man of god . The older I get the more I get him! I appreciate his hard work , his many sacrifices, his hours of worry, his example, his pride , his reproof and correction and all the love he invested in raising his six children. His...

What If...

Posted in Personal on Fri, Jan 11 2013 - 12:50 AM

What if today I chose not to look at the down side. What if I viewed every situation through possibility tinted glasses. What if I decided not to hold hurts, or bitterness, or anger, or fear, or shame. What if I chose to smile even when my angry face seems easier. What if I chose to give rather than receive , to celebrate rather than to regret....

Merry After-Christmas!

Posted in Personal on Thu, Dec 27 2012 - 12:46 AM

Over the past fee days I asked my beautiful tiny nephews and nieces what they had gotten for Christmas . their eyes lit up as they described the gift they had received that fitted exactly to the one they had dreamed of . gifts that mams and dads in consultation with the despatch centre in the north pole had lovingly made happen. They had searched...

When They're Gone... There's More

Posted in Personal on Sat, Dec 15 2012 - 09:12 AM

  Christmas is often a time of paradox . It's a bright season of celebration in a season when all nature is resting from it's journey of life. It's a festival of lights in a time of darkness. It's full of warm cheery sentiments when it's cold and unwelcoming outside. But even in a more extreme sense often we find ourselves at odds with how...

So It's Thanksgiving...

Posted in Personal on Thu, Nov 22 2012 - 10:29 AM

So it's thanksgiving . Time when our US friends reflect on life on its richness on their family love and family ties. A time when everyone tries to get with loved ones in a national expression of love and gratitude. So today in a town in Uganda called Kumi I am thankful for my parents for my brothers and sisters for my nieces and nephews and my...

Only Believe

Posted in Personal on Thu, Oct 18 2012 - 06:08 PM

Jesus started his ministry by opening the book of the prophet isaiah and saying" the spirit of the lord is upon me . I have been sent to make the blind to see to open prison doors and to heal the broken hearted!!!" And he did .... And he still does !!! Just saying . 

Another week already

Posted in Personal on Sun, Oct 07 2012 - 01:49 PM

Could it possibly be Sarurday ? Has another week just slipped off the calendar without even as much as a goodbye or a thanks or at least an acknowledgement that I played my part in making it happen! Sometimes the pace of life itself is breathtaking . This day last week myself and my brothers and sisters spent the day preparing my house for a...

Care to Ride a Harley With Me?

Posted in Personal on Sat, Sep 22 2012 - 12:36 AM

Yesterday was an interesting day . I enrolled on the new AGI SALT course. Ok AGI is the assemblies of god Ireland and SALT is an acronym for School of Advanced Leadership Training. It was a very exciting moment as thirty students from churches around Ireland gathered to learn more about gods ways , church history , and the AGI heart to reach our...

A Year Has Passed

Posted in Personal on Thu, Sep 13 2012 - 10:20 AM

On this day last year we had the sad honour of carrying our beloved Jean to her final resting place. The past year has seen me and my five amazing children carried in love by family, friends ,church ,colleagues ,school mates ,teachers, pastors, strangers ,parents , brothers, sisters, correspondents and passers by. To each and everyone of you much...

32 Years

Posted in Personal on Mon, Aug 20 2012 - 08:05 AM

I was chatting yesterday with some friends about if you were to pick a past time to live in what would it be. One said they wanted to be a knight , another chose to be the lady of the manor in Downton Abbey . I said my time would have been in wartime Britain around the time of the American soldiers being based there. I know it was a time of mixed...

To Tim

Posted in Personal on Wed, Aug 15 2012 - 01:30 PM

As I write this I am aware that around the country thousands of young adults are nervously making there way to schools , centres, computer screens and gatherings to collect their results from the state exam which they sat in June. As they read how they have done they will be frantically totting up the points and just like any game show points mean ...

It's Good to be Irish!

Posted in Personal on Sat, Aug 11 2012 - 10:20 AM

I was there ! I cried I laughed I cheered I panicked I worried I cried again I stood I sat I sang I clapped I said hello to people I don't know I talked to Joe live on air I was proud I was nervous I was blessed I was anxious I was elated I waved to Mr Cameron but more importantly hugged Katies mam Bridget and sister Sarah. I had the craic with...

A Day to Remember

Posted in Personal on Tue, Jul 31 2012 - 09:36 AM

Wow what a week! The centre piece of course being my niece Ellie Ryalls wedding to her beau Matt. What a day filled with pretty things with delicate things with special things with family things with godly things with Love. It's such a great thing when family and friends gather to celebrate love. It's such a privilege to have your name on the...

My Carriers

Posted in Personal on Thu, Jul 12 2012 - 06:54 AM

You know when you dream, now I don't mean the in bed asleep dream or the some day in the future dream. Well maybe this only happens to men but the "hail the hero" dream the "you saved the day" dream the "if it wasnt for you" dream. The ones where the crowd parts and everyone's head turns to you someone points and then before you know where you are ...

A Piece of Uganda

Posted in Personal on Tue, Jul 10 2012 - 01:19 PM

Sometimes when I sit down here to say whats on my mind I head off in a completely different direction than I had intended. So today its a completely wet dull and autumnal day. Yesterday was like a traditional hot buy me an ice cream kind of summer day. So what a contrast. When it gets warm I love the smell of the rain drying out on the grass. Its...

Not Forsaken

Posted in Personal on Wed, Jul 04 2012 - 09:49 PM

Well Im back in my own hood after a fortnight of trips that has taken me to Germany Rwanda Ethiopia Uganda Wales England Tullamore Cork Skibereen and home!! My sister Karen has taken to calling me Phineas Phogg so if you see a balloon over your house that might be me. Well its been a busy time and at times a very testing time as I retraced the...

Ramblings

Posted in Personal on Sat, Jun 23 2012 - 07:24 AM

  It's funny how life takes twists and turns that we just dont see coming. Just when it seems to be the way we dreamed it picks a side road that leads us through suburbs and neighbourhoods of sadness and hurt despair and loneliness poverty and Ill health loss and confusion in fact it's a route that we would never knowingly choose....

A Son's Memory

Posted in Personal on Sun, Jun 17 2012 - 08:41 AM

Options Bob Carley   I've shared this thought before at many seminars and conferences and in church but for the day that's in it I thought I'd put it here as a salve to someone's hurting heart. I was blessed to be raised by amazing parents. Both seemed to find a happy rhythm and natural responsibilities and I never heard them mention...

Don't Waste It!

Posted in Personal on Tue, May 29 2012 - 08:02 AM

What amazing weather gloriously delicious days. Made for ice cream days . Days of factor 0 to fifty in ten applications days. Days of kids laughter days of floppy dogs tongues days of hot foot paths pizza oven car interiors and do you still have that t shirt days. Days of scents of cut grass lemon drinks and this is like the old summer days . Jean ...

Options

Posted in Personal on Thu, May 24 2012 - 05:20 PM

  Ok so I'm driving along the coast not far from here and I pass a public park which seems to be the get to place for every duck in Dublin (that almost sounds like obscenities) so there is as they say a bit of a stir on. Some human has produced bread. Ah bread the natural food of ducks sure they've been baking it since time began! In any...

Anniversary

Posted in Personal on Sat, May 19 2012 - 09:03 AM

So it's three in the morning it's very still outside and I'm lying awake in bed. Around this time last year my self and Jean were in Tuscany with our friends Gerry and Louise. It was a delightful villa quite literally in the middle of nowhere and impossible to find! Jean and I were celebrating our 26th wedding anniversary and nearly didn't...

Test

Posted in Personal on Wed, Feb 08 2012 - 05:40 AM

Bob, I have tested everything on this end and all seems to be working properly. The only thing I can see is that perhaps you are not getting your content copied in properly. I write in OpenOffice and then copy and paste. I am doing that here. There are three "paste" icons for you to choose from on the second row under Content. Or you can use ...

Gone have tried a number of times to blog but system won't allow :-(

Posted in Personal on Tue, Feb 07 2012 - 09:45 PM

Gone have tried a number of times to blog but system won't allow :-(

Posted in Personal on Tue, Feb 07 2012 - 09:45 PM