Desensitised. Eat enough of one kind of thing and before long you become desensitised. Sure it’s bad for you, but you’ve got in the habit now and it’s not affecting you too much. Not too much. Not much anymore. It’s been part of the diet for so long that to do without it would be […]
Read More Developing an AppetiteThere were five of us in the household. Dad, Mum, my older sister, my younger brother and I. Looking back, the upbringing was fairly simple. My Dad wasn’t given to extravagances of any kind and wasn’t one to waste money at all. My Mum would be the one more likely to look at the occasional […]
Read More Small GainsSandra sat at the table with the same people she had sat with on many occasions previously. She knew the drill. The chair would go through the minutes of the last meeting, two people would point out some discrepancies in what was recorded, a brief argument would take place resolved by a vote to accept […]
Read More Seeing Something No One Else SeesIt is no ordinary journey – are you going? Lots of money is saved up over a period of time. Even as they go about their regular day to day life, in the back of their minds they know all of this is leading to something. Something significant. For some, they may only be able […]
Read More Pilgrimage: You’re Going ThereHave you been checking the time? When we were being taught how to tell the time way back at school we had the analogue clock and the digital clock. That digital clock was a twelve-hour clock. It was a little later on that I got into the twenty-four hour clock. I gotta say, I like […]
Read More A Quarter To – A Dryden UpdateWhen will she stop sucking her thumb? Doesn’t she know that she’ll ruin her teeth if she keeps on doing that? Hasn’t she seen the others who have braces because of the incessant thumb-sucking? She should just grow out of it and get on with her life. Tell the same people who criticise her for […]
Read More What If They Took Away The Comfort Blanket?I wonder if you’re familiar with this … “No, move it a little to the left … No, no, no,, now you need to shift it to the right a bit more … Lift it a little … not too much … Oh now it’s slanted … No it’s slanted … diagonal … no, not […]
Read More Adjustment for AlignmentThere is a source for the story I am about to tell but for the life of me I don’t know who the source is, so if it’s a good story it wasn’t mine and if it comes off less than good, blame me. A new pastor at a church was concerned that it was […]
Read More About Change and a PianoTrue growth never takes place in your comfort zone. I am a big fan of the comfort zone. I like the concept, I like it a lot. The familiarity, the sense of rest and being at ease with matters that are designed for you to keep going with the minimum of effort. I am, however, […]
Read More Year Four – Growth and ComfortWhat time is it? Ah it’s a quarter past the year. April being here means we have completed the first quarter of the calendar year. Great time to look at what’s gone and what is to come as well as just stopping and being grateful for being here. One of the highlights of the first […]
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