Why is she like that? It really annoys me when he behaves like that. How will these bills get paid and I am able to do this that I want to do as well? What if we don’t meet the targets this month, will that mean that our job is threatened? I am told to […]
Read More Admitting AnxietyThings appeared to be done for me. That’s understandable when I was a child. That was the expected thing. Who supplied my clothes? My parents. Who sorted out the food? My parents. Who dealt with the housing? My parents. Who fixed the transport? My parents. Sorted. That evidently began to change when there were small […]
Read More ArrangementsI enjoy my smartphone I recognise that I use it for quite a lot of things as it’s really useful for the apps. A friend remarked to me recently how dependent we in the privileged West have become on those apps. There must be an app for it somehow. App for shopping, app for banking, […]
Read More ApplicationIt doesn’t answer everything at all. It certainly helps. I am not sure if this is taking place, though. The process is usually as follows – something happens and those who need to know that it’s happened find out that it’s happened. Once this registers properly there is a response in meeting with the nature […]
Read More AwarenessI can’t remember when the spectre of asthma did not hover over me. At it’s worst I have been hospitalised because of it. More often that not there are times in the year when breathing gets laboured and asthma attacks are triggered. The medical support refer to medication they recommend to keep it controlled. So […]
Read More Airways“You’re not normal.” She had heard that all her life. Her size made her the victim of endless bullying when she was younger.As she was not the most academically inclined they used that as another verbal stick with which to beat her. She wasn’t able to do the hairdressing job she wanted to do because of […]
Read More AbnormalThe hymn O To Be Like Thee becomes harder to sing the more you realise who you’re singing about. I do enjoy hearing the bluster and bravado of well meaning, gung-ho followers who like Peter will impulsively say they will do anything for Jesus. I enjoy hearing it. I don’t question the sincerity, I don’t […]
Read More A Word On MaturityPlans, on the whole, in the main, as a tool, are tremendous. Having a goal in mind and knowing what to do to reach it, then following through and achieving is terrific. It’s not about the ease with which something gets done, it is the manner in which it is done as well as the […]
Read More A Word On InconvenienceRecently I discovered again the cost of not being diligent. Needless to say, it pays to be diligent. For His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. J. Dryden
Read More A Word On DiligenceThere are days, there are weeks, there are periods of my life where it feels arduous. Pressures appear huge, deadlines loom, expectations exceed actual delivery and there seems to be no let up. That’s why I am grateful for Jesus. In Him there are realities that overrule those arduous days, weeks and seasons. When all […]
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