http://ruth.irishmark.net Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:12:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXf8fr0Kp3Q&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Just saw this on Nick Page's blog and thought it was a brilliant reminder of how much the beauty we are forced to compare ourselves with is not reality. I know that they have stylists and lighting and airbrushing...but seeing it in action like this is very heartening and encouraging ... http://ruth.irishmark.net/?p=92 click here to listen to my monologue Had a great Easter weekend this year. I was working on the above monologue in Holy Week - Mary Magdalene reflecting on the first Easter Sunday. Spending time thinking about her life and what she might have thought and felt about Jesus really got me ... http://ruth.irishmark.net/?p=87 So Mark and I have been married for a year!! (and one day now....) Having spent AGES trying to decide what to do - we ended up on a trip to Oxford for the day. We had a little wander round shops and found the most delicious milkshake in the world ... http://ruth.irishmark.net/?p=83 Just got back from branch group tonight which was on purity after mine and Carolyn's sermon on lust on Sunday! We broke into girls and guys for prayer and deeper discussion and in the girlies there were two of us in our first year of marriage, a 70 yr old single ... http://ruth.irishmark.net/?p=76 'I want them to try and get to know Jesus, because if they get to know Jesus hopefully we will be able to keep in touch in future.'" My eyes couldn't believe what they were reading this morning on a BBC news article on the latest in the Jade Goody ... http://ruth.irishmark.net/?p=68 I have been SO sick! I started getting a headache on Monday during snow day and my energy levels drooped that evening. Tuesday - Friday I was moping around the flat in my pjs - rallying in the day a bit but spending the nights hugging the loo. Over the ... http://ruth.irishmark.net/?p=67 How rubbish have I been at posting?! I blame the January blues, busy work, 24 box sets and our new Xbox 360 arrival.... So here's a little 'things whizzing round my head' of recent times.... - today - Mark's eldest sister is going into hospital after the new baby she was ... http://ruth.irishmark.net/?p=66 http://www.storyofstuff.com In the run up to Christmas, this had given me food for tought about what I buy for people. Well worth a watch. http://ruth.irishmark.net/?p=59 I have a recurring dream. It has been over 8 months since our wedding but I keep dreaming that we are having another wedding service and I get the dress on and everything - but there's no-one to do my hair - so I know I won't look as fabulous ... http://ruth.irishmark.net/?p=50 Been doing some research about getting in order to give for the boss this afternoon and found a couple of nice little websites about living a simpler lifestyle. Thought I'd share them with you! http://www.wearewhatwedo.org  a bunch of little actions that can make a difference....very interesting reading! http://www.ibreathe.org.uk  website on living more ... http://ruth.irishmark.net/?p=47