Mairi

mummy, musician, teacher, lecturer. All views my own. You can take the girl out of Montrose/Aberdeen etc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Mairi @mazzabz]

@bogan_miss Aw fab 💜

[Mairi @mazzabz]

@CGSportEducate This is just his school music teachers getting in on his act 😛 We are all v proud of him too 🎉

[Mairi @mazzabz]

I needed to see this today 😂

[The Wolf Man @iTheWolfman]

This video will bring a smile to your face today.😂

[Mairi @mazzabz]

Can confirm this is 💯 cat nonchalance 😂

[✨️Serenitee♡Sam✨️ @Serenitee_Sam]

My mom finally got a stairlift, but I think we accidentally bought a royal chariot for the cat. 😭👑
​I walked out and saw this and just had to stop and melt for a second. The way she’s just sitting there so prim and proper, waiting for her private ride to the first floor... the absolute audacity is matched only by how cute she looks doing it.
​The best part? My mom isn’t even mad. She’s just standing there like, "Well, I guess I'm taking the stairs today." We really are just living in the cat's house at this point, aren't we?
​Honestly, if this doesn't prove that cats have the world completely figured out, I don’t know what does. She’s living the life we all dream of. 🐾💕
​RT if your pet is the actual "Main Character" of your family. I need to see more spoiled fur-babies!

[Mairi @mazzabz]

Great flight yesterday with @easyJet - fab cabin crew and pilots. Thank you 🎉 #EZY3353
#LasPalmas

[Mairi @mazzabz]

@MerrynSW I had my local labour candidate at the door last week - nice guy, was interested in what my thoughts/priorities for @scotgov would be. I’m in EK

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

[Mairi @mazzabz]

@BBCNewsnight It was clear that @policylaila really had no clue what she was talking about and was parroting ridiculous policy statements

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV at the Stations of the Cross: "Every person in authority will have to answer to God for the way they exercise their power." Jesus says. "Whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small and vulnerable, you do unto me. And it is to me that you will one day give an account."
Image: @vaticannews_it

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

Let’s call this what it is, it’s not just hypocrisy, it’s moral fraud.

Franklin Graham had no problem demonizing Barack Obama, a faithful husband, scandal-free, disciplined, educated, Black man, the very embodiment of the “bootstraps” gospel white evangelicals preach about, as some kind of threat, even suggesting that he was antichrist.

Yet, the same Graham bows in reverence to Donald Trump, an adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, unrepentant racist, porn star banging, pathological liar, with a trail of infidelity, exploitation, documented racism, and associations with convicted child sex traffickers, and has the caucasity to call him “raised up by God.”

That’s not discernment, that’s deception, dishonesty, and disregard for the sacred text he claims to believe.

The standard didn’t change, the subject did. Obama’s integrity was dismissed because he was Black. Trump’s corruption is sanctified because he is white and politically useful.

Graham isn’t applying scripture, he’s weaponizing it. He ignores sin when it serves power, then quotes the Bible to justify the very wickedness it condemns. That’s not Christianity, that’s idolatry of whiteness, wrapped in religious language and draped in a flag. 

This is hypocrisy at its highest level: Calling evil good when it benefits you, and calling good evil when it threatens your power.

And then having the audacity to say God said it.

[Kelechi DonPido @kmbiamnozie]

I am not merely a Catholic by affiliation, I nearly walked the path to the priesthood. Scripture, to me, has never been casual reading; it has been studied with the care of a sculptor refining form; patiently, attentively, reverently.

And so I say this with both conviction and humility:

Prayer is not performance. It is not spectacle. It is a sacred act, an intimate communion between the human spirit and the divine. A means not only to speak, but to interface with the heavens, the hosts of heaven themselves.

When we pray, we approach with humility. With thanksgiving. With love. Just as one brings offerings into the house of the Lord, not in arrogance, but in surrender.

Which is why moments of public prayer demand even greater care.

When figures such as Paula White stand before the world in prayer, the expectation is clear: to seek wisdom, not validation. To ask that leaders like Donald Trump be guided toward justice, compassion, peace, and discernment. To intercede for the poor, the vulnerable, and the preservation of life. That is what true supplication looks like.

But to elevate any political figure especially during the sacred solemnity of Holy Week to a comparison with the sinless Son of God is not devotion.

It is error.

And more than that, it borders on blasphemy.

Likewise, when Franklin Graham invokes the Book of Esther as justification for the destruction of a modern nation such as Iran, it reflects not divine insight, but a troubling misapplication of scripture. Context matters. Theology demands responsibility. Sacred texts are not instruments for political ends.

Faith was never meant to be weaponized.

It was meant to guide, to correct, to humble.

And if we are to invoke God in matters of leadership and war, then let it be done with trembling reverence, not confident distortion.

Because the danger is not in believing too deeply but in believing wrongly.

I am ashamed, this is our Holy Week for Gods sake.

God have mercy.

[Amanda Litman @amandalitman]

“Please get the truth out about our son.”

[Mairi @mazzabz]

@JennyAThatcher 🙋🏻‍♀️ me neither

[Mairi @mazzabz]

@ruth_wishart Yes! It was process of elimination, not intelligence for me 🤣

[CeCe @cecegkh]

Wow! This is simply amazing 🌹♥️

[St Ambrose High @stambrosehigh]

🌟Another proud day for our school community! Our S6 pupils were commissioned for the @caritasaward 🙏✨A huge well done to all involved, and special thanks to our talented pupils and Music Department for providing the beautiful music for the service🎶❤️ #Caritas #FaithInAction💛

[Mairi @mazzabz]

Shoutout to the conductor on my @AvantiWestCoast train (she’s on til Preston I believe) - giving a total telling off over the tannoy to the numpty who apparently keeps smoking in the accessible toilet 😂 #teachervibes

[Mairi @mazzabz]

@wimbledonradio my daughter Kirstie and I (Mairi) are tuning in from our hotel in Mallorca where there’s sadly no tennis on the tv 🎾 commentary is great and keeping the match alive for us - thank you!

[Mairi @mazzabz]

@GLA_Airport @lufthansa C. Golden Gate Bridge 😊