inspire-ations : Brett Fish

when Desmond Tutu met No_bob [part II]

This is a continuation of the previous post which started giving an overview and summary of my participation in the ‘Revisiting The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Faith Community Hearing' which took place this week. Here are some selected highlight moments that could be captured on The Tweeterer in 140 characters of less: FROM THE TWITTERER [Day 1 of 2] While 140 character messages don't capture the whole of what was experienced, hopefully they will help you [...]

By brettfish|2014-10-10T07:12:56+02:00October 10th, 2014|activities, challenging thorts, change the world, church, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, thorts of other people, Uncategorized, what i am watching|1 Comment

Marriage Year 5: Meet Lily and Jonathan Dunn

Photo courtesy of Taylorraephotography.com I’ll be the first to tell you that I suck at marriage. Let me give you an example. A few weeks ago we were sitting on a bench outside a perfect little neighborhood boulangerie in Australia, eating pain au chocolat in the sunshine when Jonathan told me he was thinking of applying to grad school so that he could potentially start a program when we return from Korea. “What do you think?” he [...]

By brettfish|2014-07-26T11:19:22+02:00July 26th, 2014|inspire-ations, love and chocolate, marriage, pain and Hope, relationships, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Porn – meet Bek Curtis

This is a repost of a blog by permission which was originally posted on her blog, 'Perfectly Flawed' - meet Bek Curtis: Lust. Sex. Porn. If those words made you squirm, you may not want to read ahead. Likewise, if you’re of the prudish variety, because here I openly, albeit reluctantly, share with you my experience of, and thoughts on, pornography. Reluctant, because people can be jerks. Some people refuse to see the transformational work of [...]

By brettfish|2014-07-16T00:15:36+02:00July 16th, 2014|inspire-ations, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

My First Last Day – a poem by Michael Toy

continuing with another excerpt from the most amazing poetry book i have ever read [and while this is a really small set of things, that doesn't diminish the amazingness of this book one bit] by my online friend, Michael Toy, titled 'Blame it on the Huehuetenango' and this poem in particular which he calls 'My First Last Day' being reminded that the subtitle of this book is 'Poetry for the Recovering Evangelical' and so specifically [...]

By brettfish|2014-07-15T08:25:18+02:00July 15th, 2014|God stuff, inspire-ations, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

Dinner with a Difference

A community of friends who pool their money to meet the needs of people they know. That is what Common Change is all about. And that is the non-profit that my wife, tbV, and i work with and have been for the last year and a half. Almost every time we explain the concept to people and they get it, it excites them and they want to know more. But many people in that boat [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-30T14:34:26+02:00June 30th, 2014|activities, change the world, friends and enemas, inspire-ations|0 Comments

i will blame it on the huehuetenango [just as soon as i figure out what a huehuetenango is!]

Michael Toy is one of my imaginary friends, you know like the one you had as a kid, that you were convinced was real. Except that this one really is. No seriously, you gotta believe me! Although his last name even suggests that i might have trouble convincing anyone of that. 'Imaginary' in that, though we have been 'friends on Facebook' and have at least 30 mutual friends [most of whom i actually real-life know] [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-20T09:33:07+02:00June 20th, 2014|challenging thorts, inspire-ations, poems and other creativity, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

The Power of Water

One of the most powerful passages from the book i am busy finishing at the moment, because it will start with laughter and end in tears. Such a powerful read: I suppose that the number of homies I've baptised over the decades is in the thousands. Gang members find themselves locked up and get around to doing things their parents didn't arrange for them. Homies are always walking up to me at Homeboy Industries or [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-18T08:56:36+02:00June 18th, 2014|inspire-ations, pain and Hope, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments

The will of God [aka When God dies, who gets His stuff]

"I'm not sure what God's will is for my life!" i hear this a lot, or some other version of it. And i have spoken about/written on this before, but feels like a good time to bring it up. YES, YOU NAILED IT, GOD WANTED THAT BABY TO GET SICK AND DIE possibly the worst scenario this plays out in is when someone gets an incurably disease or a person dies and somebody who is chatting [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-17T09:30:26+02:00June 17th, 2014|bible things, change the world, God stuff, inspire-ations|0 Comments

Standing with the least likely to succeed

If i was sharing every chapter and excerpt i enjoyed from ‘Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion’ by Father Gregory Boyle, which i have been reading and really being deeply moved by, then the whole book would pretty much be in here. But i am wanting you to get hold of the book and so am only sharing a story or a passage from every couple of chapters in the book. There is some [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-15T08:01:29+02:00June 15th, 2014|change the world, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, thorts of other people, what i am watching|0 Comments

When enemies work together

A third extract from ‘Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion’ by Father Gregory Boyle, which you should clearly be able to gather by now i am adding to my 'Books i would love for all my friends to read' list so just do it already. So brief background to this short piece is that Father Boyle works predominantly with gangsters and ex-gangsters through a number of different businesses that fall under the banner of Homeboy [...]

By brettfish|2014-06-13T09:12:04+02:00June 13th, 2014|activities, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, people, thorts of other people, what i am reading|0 Comments