Category: Being human

“Eternal wisdom made all things in love, By love are all bewildered. Intoxicated by the wine of love.” The quote above is by the 7th century poet Farridudden Attar. He compares love with wine; intoxication and pleasurable. However, he attributes God as the maker of love (Eternal wisdom). And so be it because there are…

For the past while, I have been asking myself, should I? Buy an Ancestry Kit, I mean. £90 is a considerable chunk out the budget to be told I’m a Celt with Irish/Scottish ancestry; the most likely outcome. Okay, I may get some surprises. I’ve often felt I’m Scandinavian and that the stork with a…

NASA, the North American Space Administration has rolled out billions of dollars developing technology to detect Extra-Terrestrial life. To what end, I wonder? If there are extra-terrestrial life, what would they think of us? Consider: we have a planet producing food in abundance, and yet, we see images of emaciated figures in other continents with…

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream Amos 5: 24 Recently I was talking with a heating engineer who runs a company. He was telling me that it is not unusual for engineers to stick a screwdriver in the works so to speak. Therefore, leaving the householder with a…

Friday afternoons were the most depressing part of the school week. Two periods of maths with Mr T was like a night spent with spondylitis. So, Sam, Tam, and I would take the short ferry ride across the River Clyde from Govan to Kelvin and after a short walk, we were in the grand Kelvingrove…