Sometimes we get ourselves in a situation we can’t get out of. So mired in circumstances and mental conditions that coping mechanisms are all we have. In the middle of all that I am grateful that the good news is about God seeing that condition did something about it. Doing something we could never do […]
Read More On The Run: The Home Run“I remember … When they were young, they would fall, hurt themselves and come running to me. They ran to me because I could take the pain away. They ran to me because I could make it better. They ran to me because everything they needed was found in me. They got older and thought […]
Read More On The Run: The Problem in a MemoryThe route was a familiar one, carved and conditioned over time. Something would happen to upset me and I The running continues)would set off to run in that direction, on that route to that destination. It became automatic. I would make the run to that place and before long I would nestle again into that […]
Read More On The Run: The Old RunI used to run when I was younger. I ran with my siblings and our friends playing in the estate that we grew up in. When I was a little older, I ran because I was good at it in the shorter distances. It made me useful for the rugby and I had one or […]
Read More On The Run: PrologueCain was expected to look after his brother and killed him. Killed him out of anger, killed him out of jealousy, killed him through ignoring the call of God to deal with his own issues rather than taking it out on his brother. Whatever you think of the historicity of the episode in scripture, there […]
Read More Keeping a BrotherHe looks and he knows what is needed. Picking it up with his left hand and setting it on his knee, his left hand around its neck formed different chords across the frets. Meanwhile his right hand would gently strum at times and other times his fingers would negotiate the picking of the strings in […]
Read More Play A Song For YouWhat’s he up to? Is he finished? What did it take to get there? What will it take to make it where he’s going? (Photo: Unsplash) For His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. J. Dryden
Read More The Sculpture: A Project In The WorksThere is a pattern. There is a rhythm. One into the other. One over the other. Not the same thread. Interwoven threads. It’s not clear what’s going on at first. It seems a bit weird the dexterity of finger work and the patience required as sometimes it doesn’t always flow as it appears it should. […]
Read More The Needles and Wool: Wonderfully Knitted TogetherThere is something about the blank page that invites words. What kind of words and how that blank page will be filled appears daunting at first. It can be intimidating. So much can be written, but what should be written. What effect will it have to the reader? Will it really convey what the mind […]
Read More The Journal: Write OnThe rice was plain. The chicken was plain. The vegetables were plain. That was what they were used to. Other than a bit of salt, they didn’t want their meal any other way, because they never had their meal any other way. That changed when they were invited to taste a meal at their new […]
Read More Herbs and Spices: Enhancing the Flavour
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