Friday 27 February 2015

Fish on Friday I am N.



Good day brothers, sisters and all yet to know our almighty spiritual kinship.

Yesterday our vicar in our church at Beech hill in Luton, which is a predominately non christian area of Luton, told us about the Arabic letter N - which I did know about for some time - but other members of our congregation didnt. Anyway you can read about it below.

Then at the bottom you will see my artwork which has been inspired by this topic.




Dima Sadeq
A screenshot of LBCI anchor Dima Sadeq expressing solidarity with Iraq's persecuted Christians during her broadcast.




To express solidarity with persecuted Christians in Iraq, a Lebanese television channel is adding to its name the Arabic letter "N," pronounced as "Noon" and which comes from the mark the ISIS Islamist militants are placing on the homes of known Christians in Mosul.
Even as Christians and their supporters around the world are adopting the Arabic letter "N" in social media, anchor Dima Sadeq from the LBCI television channel this week appeared on television sporting a T-shirt with the Arabic letter written on it and expressed the network's support for the persecuted Christians of Iraq, reports Lebanon's Daily Star.
"From Mosul to Beirut, we are all Noon," Sadeq was quoted as saying as she began her broadcast.
The Arabic letter "N" is the first letter of the word "Nasrani," or "Nazarene," which is used to describe Christians because they follow Jesus of Nazareth.
"We are all targets to be pointed at with a finger or a sword because we're different, whether in terms of sex, religion or color of our skin," the anchor added. "We are all targets of murder in this insane era. The era of radicals, dictatorships and Israel's hatred. Only here [in the region,] are children killed on beaches, churches closed down, mosques raided, shrines of prophets destroyed."
The viewers soon expressed their support to the TV channel and condemned the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS, an offshoot of al Qaeda which has declared the territory it has seized in Iraq and Syria a "caliphate," or Islamic state, and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as caliph or leader for Muslims.
Russell D. Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, noted that Islamist militants assume that the word "Nazarene" is "an insult, an emblem of shame."
"But in that intended slight, we are reminded of who we are, and why we belong to one another, across the barriers of space and time and language and nationality. We are Christians. We are citizens of the New Jerusalem. We are Nazarenes all," he wrote, explaining that the truth that our Lord is a Nazarene "is a sign to us of both the rooted locality and the global solidarity of the church."
The church may be hounded and jailed and even crucified, "but the church can never be beheaded. The Head of the Church is alive, and engaged, and on his way back," he added. "In the meantime, there will always be those who will ask, 'Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?' Our answer, from now until the Eastern skies explode should be simple: 'Come and see.'"
ISIS is among the major terrorist groups that are fighting government forces in Syria. The group has made significant military gains also in Iraq. Its fighters took control of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, without any resistance from Iraqi forces in June.
Thousands of Christians have fled northern Iraq and communities they have lived in for almost 2,000 years following ISIS' ultimatum that they convert to Islam, pay a tax, or be killed for their faith.
Many Christian leaders and persecution watchdog groups have urged the international community to do all it can to help protect Iraq's Christians. Many are reportedly fleeing to the autonomous region of Kurdistan, which for the most part has managed to secure its borders and escape the militants' attacks.
ISIS exploited the growing tension between Sunni minority and Shia-led government in Iraq earlier this year by capturing the predominantly Sunni city of Fallujah in west Iraq. It also gained control of many parts of the city of Ramadi and has its fighters in many towns near the Turkish and Syrian borders.
The group had been aiming at forming an Islamic emirate in the Levant, a region also known as the Eastern Mediterranean, through "jihad." It is feared that it might soon become the world's most dangerous jihadist group.
The group claims it has recruited fighters from Europe and the U.S., as well as from the Arab world and the Caucasus.
                                         So here it is. Little work compared to those brothers and sisters who have the N daubed on there door to separate them out for persecution.
Yet I do what I can and art, prayer, what more can you expect of me?











Have a good day and know that you are loved.

So folks, I have just shared my art without words of wisdom from people far greater than me. This is because I am focused and would encourage you to also focus on praying for those that are getting grief from ignorant insensitive people and those who are getting it in the neck. We are N.  Your bro of Christ, Peter.  

Thursday 26 February 2015

Create meditate rearange dont worry about strange. LOVE in all feeling working resting resisting and assisting.

Good day and those of you that pray please pray for those of us Christians who are being persecuted in countries like Syria and elsewhere. Often losing their homes and livelihoods if not there lives!

I am not able to do much more than pray for them at the moment and ask for your positive thoughts of healing and reconciling, or prayers.

I am an artist and can share my creativity with your good selves. 


   am connected to the divine energy of the universe that fills me with security
































Sorry folks but my alarm is going which tells me I have to take the car round to my brother Alans. May get time to write more above later. We will see. Have a good day and know that you are loved. You bro Peter.

Sunday 22 February 2015

Photos of my latest art and also from the baptism of one of my nephews children at an air force base






















                                                   Stain glass windows in the airforce
                                                   base chapel.


                                                    My nephew Chris resplendent with the
                                                    medals he received whilst at war
                                                    in Iraq and Afghanistan with  the
                                                    army. Now he can wear them on his
                                                    airforce uniform. I am fairly sure thats
                                                    his son Alfie.
                                                    Below is their little girl Lacey.  
                                                 

                                                      Below is Chris`s wife


                                                                        Michelle to the                                                                                            right  
                                                 

                     Have a good day folks and make the best of today. Blessings and love to you from
                      me here in Luton. Your bro Peter.