You will never know until you ask. My firstborn daughter and I were having a conversation. During that conversation she asked some questions. When she heard the answers, she asked some more questions. when she heard those answers she asked some more questions. Then she stopped, because she felt she was irritating me with the […]
Read More About Asking QuestionsPerfectionism is not healthy. It can blind us to beauty in the simple. It dulls the taste for the glorious in life that can be found in the flawed. Where scenes can evoke euphoria and lighten the load of life, the aura of perfectionism can rob people of that joy. In getting rid of perfectionism, […]
Read More About Intolerable MediocrityThere are times when it is good to ask questions. Those questions can vary in depth, but when certain things crop up, certain circumstances appear to conspire, it appears as if everything is up in the air. Nothing is grounded. Nothing is as safe as it was. In times like that, it might appear comforting […]
Read More About When It’s All Up In The AirWe were exuberant. There was nothing that could dampen our enthusiasm. We were going to do it and do with all guns blazing! After we did it, someone we respected quietly had a word with us to ask if we would have liked that to have been done to us. When we stopped kidding around […]
Read More About Conviction and CorrectionI’ve got this brilliant idea. What we’ll do is we’ll come up with a newsletter for the school. We can write different articles in it and it can have the sort of things we want to see in the newsletter. We need to get permission from the teachers to see if we can do it […]
Read More About Ideas, Failings and More IdeasThe choice is still up to you. The story is told of the relationship between God and His people. In that story there was a phase when they accepted Him as their King and accepted a number of judges appointed for disputes both internally and when faced with external opposition. The people reached a point, […]
Read More About Changes and ChoicesPeter did not take it easy with me. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. […]
Read More About Humbling MyselfThere is nothing new under the sun. That is a great relief for me as a writer who endeavours to be creative. It’s a relief because in as much as I want to write something fresh and creative, I don’t have to worry about it being ‘new’ as such. I know what we want from […]
Read More About Exploring New OpportunitiesA man was complaining about not having any shoes and then someone pointed to someone who didn’t have any feet. The sentiment is understood. Don’t complain, there is always someone in worse condition that you. Aspects of the thinking are more than in order. Before we complain about anything, it is a good practice to […]
Read More About People Being Worse Off Than YouThere is urgency, but there’s no rush. It’s important and exactly because it’s important this is why hurrying on the matter would be counterproductive. Often it doesn’t seem as though anything is happening and when that is the case over a period of time the feeling of frustration can settle in. Then that frustration can […]
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