When You Know Where You Stand

Clarity. In February 2010, I remember being in a situation where that word came into sharp focus. (Geddit? I’ll be here waiting when you do.) What was clear in the circumstances I was in was that clarity was in short supply. As a result activities were meant to take place with certain things done but […]

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Perspective and Thanksgiving

We were talking about the progress she has made since she arrived in the country. What tended to happen was she would mention something and I would help her appreciate just how much more there was to the experience that helped to shape how she’s grown in those years. Sometimes it is in looking at […]

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Come To My Relief

Lord hear my prayer. Listen to my cry for mercy. In your faithfulness and your righteousness. Come to my relief. (Psalm 143:1) There are times when I read the Psalms and it’s not even the whole Psalm that captures me. It’s just one line. Recently I was just reflecting on the tragedies and traumas that […]

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Make An Informed Choice?

Do we even have the desire to spend the time exploring what is needed to be properly informed? What am I talking about? First of all, you need to know this question emerged from another great conversation I had with a very dearly loved friend. There’s a place that we meet on a fairly regular […]

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Hope For The Best

Hope is a powerful sentiment. There’s the type of hope that is a grasp through the uncertainty. It looks ahead through thick fog of ambiguity with fingers crossed that something might be out there that will be pleasing to them. Then there’s the type of hope that has a confident assurance. That assurance is not […]

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Delete It

I have had my email account for nearly 15 years. Typing that makes me think. 15 years. Wowsers. People have been locked up for less. In any case, in that time I’ve picked up a few habits. One of those habits is to be really organised with the incoming emails. I like to subscribe to […]

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Challenging The Way Things Are

I am not a subscriber to the sentiment that talk is cheap. I have a fair idea where it comes from. There’s a lot of talk about how bad something is without anything done about it. Politicians talk about what they will do to make things better. People vote for them and are disappointed to […]

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Patience – A Priceless Gift

People have been patient with me. Not everyone, obviously. Some just did not have the time to wait for me to get it. Some were frustrated that as they saw it, someone like me should have already been behaving and operating at the standard. I was not, though. Part of that was ongoing struggles with […]

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