Quotes from Megan McKenna

If I feel there's any weird tension or not a very nice vibe going on, I just remove myself from the situation.

I like the whole natural vibe. I don't like the fake look.

Not going to lie, I wish I was a Pussycat Doll.

I honestly think I had a massive dose of body dysmorphia.

There are events on all the time in London and because I get nervous going to things, I'd down my drinks quickly.

People need to remember that people edit their pictures, they change the way they want to look.

I'm just the same as everybody else.

I used to edit my pictures and make my lips look even bigger in the editing apps.

My mum used to say to me every morning, 'Megan, your lips, they're so big.'

The only thing I've ever had done is my lips and I'm proud to say I've had my lips done.

Louis Walsh and I talk a lot about my music, and he's really happy with how it's going.

Faith is an action. He (one criminal on the cross) puts himself one step lower than where he was, sharing Jesus' place of poverty, insecurity, and the focus of rage. Remember me. And he will be remembered, because of his association with the Crucified One.

Who are we aligning ourselves with? Are we aligning ourselves with the presence of God as it is abused, broken, bleeding, and mocked and scorned even now in this world? Do we take that one step down, risking insecurity, violence, guilt by association, to stand beside those who are both victim and accused, and public sinner – criminal and despised in society?

Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.

Jesus is dangerous to society, to the status quo, and to contemporary piety. This clarity of preaching cannot be allowed to continue. It is like a cold, a virus that infects all who suffer and who love under conditions that only worsen, in a world that blames those who are poor and do not live up to religious expectations.

We are being called to a new and deeper passion: to those who live under the shadow of the cross and those most in need of compassion. Then we become mothers of God, sisters and brothers of Jesus, the loved disciples born in the blood of the Cross and fed on the Word of God.

Conversion, constant conversion, is the message of the Gospel.

All the accounts of the burial of Jesus are somber, laced through with the silence of grief, the shock that violence does to one's soul, even experienced vicariously in the body of another who is loved. They are written as though they are dirges, laments hidden in the silences and spaces between the words.

Scream silently in your prayer; remember the pain of others.

Once again the Scriptures are a lodestar, a benchmark, the plumb line steadies us and steers us clear of what is happening in the world and gives us a glimpse of history and politics, economics and daily experiences from God's point of view. Going back to this mother lode of wisdom and knowledge, inspired by God, brings grace and further insight not found in other devotional materials.

he brought back to life and warns her of the beginning of a famine that

Would That All Yahweh's People Were Prophets!"(Numbers 11:29)

Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups that arrest the voice of truth or destroy others, then we are Judas.

And morning came… It still comes. Our God is here, Emmanuel, among us, always coming towards us, always standing behind us, always standing up for us, always standing with us in solidarity in communion asking us to come with Him now as disciple, as follower, as believer, as a friend, as intimate beloved child of God, now and forever.