change the world : Brett Fish

the days i wrote about hitler, retards, hating christianity and gay people…

one of my facebook friends [Catherine Rogers] posted a status about the overabundance of brett FISH anderson articles/blogs/videos on her newsfeed and the struggle to pick which to give her time to [not complaining that there was so much but that there was too much choice] and so somehow five minutes later i found myself looking back through some early pre-Simple Way blog posts i made two or more years ago and finding a bunch [...]

By brettfish|2012-07-12T07:11:36+02:00July 12th, 2012|and other animals., challenging thorts, change the world, church, God stuff|1 Comment

Mid-year resolutions

well if you know me a little bit, you know i am not a big fan of resolutions [nice-sounding generally-empty promises you make to yourself and keep for a week at the beginning of each year] but i did write a piece on new year's evolutions once with the idea of putting things into play that will actually change you or your circumstances or community... and being mid-way through the year is a great time [...]

By brettfish|2012-07-02T09:53:10+02:00July 2nd, 2012|activities, and other animals., change the world, life, relationships|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Adoption – meet Philippa and Emiel

this is from my good friends, Philippa [who i met online when i was overseas] and Emiel [who i met back home years ago] who somehow met each other and got happily married [which is a great story and i don't think i had anything to do with it]: "We are the family waiting (not so patiently) to adopt" My name is Philippa and I am married to my hero Emiel. We are the proud [...]

By brettfish|2012-06-07T23:00:23+02:00June 7th, 2012|change the world, friends and enemas, God stuff, life, love and chocolate, marriage, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|2 Comments

Taboo Topics: Adoption – meet Jane and Mike

My husband mike and I decided to start a family at the beginning of last year and so I went off contraception and we started trying. We assumed it would be quick and easy, because we have only heard stories of people falling pregnant quickly – even in the first or second month, and with no complications. And so the first month or two we weren’t worried, we enjoyed the excitement of getting ready to [...]

By brettfish|2012-06-04T15:36:45+02:00June 4th, 2012|challenging thorts, change the world, friends and enemas, God stuff, inspire-ations, marriage, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|6 Comments

Taboo Topics: Adoption – meet Tyron and Caraleigh

Hey Brett Thanks for the opportunity to share on your “Taboo Topics” series in regards to adoption. This is our story thus far: Myself and Caraleigh decided to pursue adopting Andrew around mid-Jan 2012. We are currently waiting for the adoption to be finalised. This is a process that requires much patience & prayer, but it’s looking really good so far, even better than normal cases for some ‘God-intervening’ reasons I’m sure. In the meantime [...]

By brettfish|2012-05-30T07:41:35+02:00May 30th, 2012|challenging thorts, change the world, God stuff, inspire-ations, marriage, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|2 Comments

Taboo Topics: Adoption [Intro]

this series of blog posts has been on my heart and mind for well over a year and i am excited to finally be at the point of getting started on it. there are a number of incredibly important, life-transforming, heart-breaking life events that happen to huge numbers of people that no-one, or very few people, ever seem to talk publically about – and so for the most part there are hundreds or thousands of [...]

By brettfish|2017-01-17T10:08:22+02:00May 29th, 2012|challenging thorts, change the world, Taboo Topics|16 Comments

to celebrate a 40 million something goal is human, to forgive is divine…

i imagine this is a much bigger post or discussion than what will fit in here but let's get it started... a soccer player [who was worth something like 40 million something - does it really matter when you hit 40 million whether the next word is pounds, euros or dollars?] scores a goal. a hundred facebook statuses [stati?] read something along the lines of 'amazing goal - so worth the money spent' i get [...]

By brettfish|2012-05-18T08:50:56+02:00May 18th, 2012|and other animals., challenging thorts, change the world, God stuff, life, shtupidt people, sport and games, world news|2 Comments

Prayer-liners [v]

some more challenges from ‘Prayer: Does it make any difference?’ by Philip Yancey and you really should get the book: 'I remembered reading the account of a spiritual seeker who interrupted a busy life to spend a few days in a monastery. 'I hope your stay is a blessed one,' said the monk who showed the visitor to his cell. 'If you need anything, let us know, and we'll teach you how to live without [...]

By brettfish|2012-04-30T16:34:40+02:00April 30th, 2012|activities, change the world, God stuff, psalms, what i am reading|1 Comment

the day i took on city hall…

and by 'took on' i mean 'visited and got to speak' - have written a two parter blog about today's public response to mayor nutter's ban on public feeding on my other blog and here are the links... http://thesimpleweigh.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/i-had-a-dream-part-i http://thesimpleweigh.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/i-had-a-dream-part-ii-blooper-reel and now 'got stalked by' http://thesimpleweigh.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/i-had-a-dream-part-iii-aka-stalker-in-the-gym/ and quoted... http://thesimpleweigh.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/i-had-a-dream-part-iv-aka-pressing-on/

By brettfish|2012-04-12T21:18:35+02:00April 12th, 2012|activities, and other animals., change the world, life, local news, people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Losing a baby – meet Nicole of Graeme and Nicole

a little while ago [well, a month it seems] i started a series called Taboo Topics where i wanted to look at some serious issues in life that deeply affect people but that rarely get spoken about. The first one, losing a baby, was something that had been on my heart for a long, long time because of knowing some friends who had been through it and having a glimpse of how devastating it must [...]

By brettfish|2012-04-10T13:30:39+02:00April 10th, 2012|change the world, God stuff, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, life, marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|2 Comments