Stories from January, February & March 2020JanuaryGordie Jackson·Follow3 min read·Apr 14, 2023--ListenShare1. Malachi Chapter 4Writing in an attempt to help my daughter and I understand itgordiejackson.medium.com2. What was going on inside during a Quaker meetingThere is something very different about sitting in silence alone and sitting in silence with others. You are aware of…gordiejackson.medium.com3. Good luck Northern IrelandAfter 3 years of no regional government, politicians return to share powergordiejackson.medium.com4. Centring PrayerThe Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers) in Britain is organised into around 70 plus Area Meetings (AM). So, for…gordiejackson.medium.com5. The Marriage StoryReflecting my experience via the filmgordiejackson.medium.com6. Making spiritual sense of the Assassin’s CreedI awoke as I do on weekday mornings around 6 am. I struggle to rouse myself in the week so in my bid to reclaim it I…gordiejackson.medium.com7. I am not dealing well with demands from wherever they come.Someone asks me, “Can I have five minutes?” and my immediate thought is, “No I have enough to do already.” It is not…gordiejackson.medium.com8. What should a workplace be?It seems time to present a vision as many report unhealthy places of workgordiejackson.medium.comFebruary1. For me, 31st January was another day for the media it was a headlineIn the past week or two, I haven’t listened much to the news on TV or Radio. I glance the Metro on the train and pick…gordiejackson.medium.com2. Yesterday I heard some words that moved me“We sit here in meeting waiting to be moved by the spirit yet during the week we are part of the great meeting of life…gordiejackson.medium.com3. There may not be a God but prayer changes youOn Friday I posted on Facebook,gordiejackson.medium.com4. I can’t remember the last time I clapped at the end of a film, I did tonightTalking of memory I don’t remember the case of Katherine Gun the UK Government Communication Head Quarters (GCHQ)…gordiejackson.medium.com5. Where do you drink from the cup of strangers and eat their bread?On Saturday I attended a Spirituality day at St Edmund the King organised by St Martin’s in the Fields. I was to learn…gordiejackson.medium.com6. What does religious language convey?I make little plans these days choosing to wait and see how the day unfolds. I decided I would go to the London Quaker…gordiejackson.medium.com7. The Week, those 7 days in which a world can be created or recreatedQuaker meetings, Discussion group, Coffee dates, Consumer issues, Jared Diamond, Julian Barnesgordiejackson.medium.com8. The three of usYou have 16 minutes what do you write?medium.com9. Peace in me?A found a poem I wrote when living in Galway, Ireland in 1990 when I would have been 19 or 20medium.comMarch1. The Book GroupThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnesgordiejackson.medium.com2. Thursday 11th April 1990, Dalboshets, Romania, near the border with the then YugoslaviaIn 1990 I travelled to Romania with an Irish charity.medium.com3. “What do you have?”Considering the challenge of Covid 19 and what will get you throughgordiejackson.medium.com4. It’s not the weather I am checkingIt is 10 minutes to 7 in the morning. I will turn the news on at 7. Just to make sure I am in touch with what’s going…gordiejackson.medium.com5. St Patrick’s day 2020Patrick may have driven the snakes out of Ireland but this year the Coronavirus has driven us off the streets into our…gordiejackson.medium.com6. Wednesday 18th March 2020‘Could this be the last for a while’gordiejackson.medium.com7. The Coronavirus Challenge day 4When I look back at this time I will see that this Coronavirus started for me on Monday which means we are now on day…gordiejackson.medium.com8. Friday 20th March 2020Coronavirus Challenge day 5, writing my way through itgordiejackson.medium.com9. Coronavirus Challenge day 6Saturday 21st March 2020gordiejackson.medium.com10. Coronavirus challenge day 7Sunday 22nd March 2020 Mother’s daygordiejackson.medium.com11. Coronavirus Challenge Day 8Monday 23rd March 2020 - the UK has locked downgordiejackson.medium.com12. Coronavirus Challenge Day 9Tuesday 24th March 2020 — the first day of UK lockdowngordiejackson.medium.com13. Coronavirus Challenge Day 10Wednesday 25th March 2020gordiejackson.medium.com14. Coronavirus Challenge Day 11Thursday 26 March 2020 — UK Lockdown day 4gordiejackson.medium.com15. Coronavirus Challenge Day 12Friday 27th March 2020 — UK Lockdown day 4 — Yesterday’s story todaygordiejackson.medium.com16. Coronavirus Challenge Day 13Saturday 28th March 2020 — UK Lockdown Day 5 — yesterday story todaygordiejackson.medium.com17. Life in all its fullnessSunday 29th March 2020 — UK lockdown day 4 — CC day 14gordiejackson.medium.com18. Ssshhh let Nature speakI went down to the river this morning and I found that as I began the camera that there were no words. What there was…gordiejackson.medium.com
