One of my favourite verses in the Bible is from Job 19v5 ‘I know that my redeemer liveth’ The reason is personal as it is on the headstone of my Great Uncle who was killed in the First World War and it would have been put there by his father (my Great Grandfather). It might […]
I imagine that a lot of you grew up like me hearing first-hand accounts of wars from relatives that had lived through them. Some of the stories were funny, some sad and some miraculous. Some of you reading this will have seen conflict first-hand, I myself have not and only possess a poor understanding of […]
As some of you might know the nearest I got to military service was being in the sea cadets for a few years as a teenager. That certainly made me realise that any branch of the armed forces was not for me – probably much to the relief of the armed forces. Amongst the many […]
The conversation went like this: Customer: ‘Can you help me; do you have any cantaloupe melons?’Assistant: ‘I’ll just check our stock to see if we have any.’ The assistant checked their electronic handset. ‘I’m sorry but we won’t have any until tomorrow morning.’ The reaction from the customer was not what the assistant expected. In […]
The first part of this is going to be a bit obvious for a lot of people. Put quite simply people with autism deal very much in truth and can on occasion hang onto facts like a dog with a bone. On occasion we don’t so much speak the truth in love, but in a […]
Some of you may have noticed by now, but through this series of blogs I am trying to work through the attributes I listed when I began. I have to admit that as I have gone on the more difficult I have found it. This is because I have had to take a good long […]
In our house we have a saying when we see a show being trailed on TV that we have no interest in whatsoever. When the announcer gets to the end of the trail either my wife or I add – ‘Not in this house it isn’t!’ This prompted me to think about the occasion when Jesus cleansed […]
In a lot of ways this follows on from my last blog and for me was beautifully summed up in a sentence I read in a book about Asperger’s. What follows might appear as immodest as it is funny: ‘If it wasn’t for aspies the human race would be still sitting around having a meeting […]
For me this is where it starts getting difficult to write without sounding like a big-head as I deal with the next subject, which is ‘Insight’ I worked with a man called Haydn Dennis from Swansea who was not only responsible for training me in the field of architecture but more importantly he led me to […]
In the first part of this series I listed what are for me the positives of Asperger’s Syndrome. I am all too aware of how the negatives affect me (and others). Each day I have to make the conscious decision to live out the positives, sometimes I am successful, sometimes I am not. However, writing all […]
