Apparently you just keep going. There’s this project today, there’s that assignment tomorrow, there’s that challenge the day after. It’s all booked in your diary and when anyone asks if you’re available, you can genuinely inform them that you’ll have to check because you’re pretty well booked up for the forseeable future. Apparently you just […]
Read More Then You Stop And Realise …There are those stories of a great success in a sport. An unfancied team won the big one. The individual ranked outside the top 100 upset the odds and won the tournament. The story talks about those attractive qualities people warm to about the underdog. The journey from nowhere to somewhere can wrap people up […]
Read More Not A One-OffI know my Mum was praying for years. Both my parents were praying, don’t get me wrong, but my Mum in particular was very clear in her prayer for her children. We would sometimes have family prayer and every now and then we would hear Mum make that prayer for her children. And she didn’t […]
Read More The Process and the Turning PointThere I am flailing about in my issues, inadequacies and insecurities. I can barely help myself and people are looking for me to help them? That’s ridiculous. I need all the help I can get. So, it should have been that guy’s response to help me. Help me in my situation. Help me out of […]
Read More Are You Going To Help Me? No, I’m Going To Train YouIt’s funny really. We know that a lot of the things we savour in life come at significant cost of effort, time and resources. Whether it’s an invention that is then mass produced for distribution to people who need it or the development of that beautiful baby into a reasonably well-adjusted member of the human […]
Read More If It’s Faith Is It Meant To Be Comfortable?“You what they’re like, right?” They ask for a character reference to ensure they are getting someone of good standing. It’s one thing for the person to suggest they have the character, it is another thing to get that corroborated from a trustworthy source who can endorse the person. If you were around when that […]
Read More You Know What He’s Like?My beautiful firstborn daughter recently celebrated her birthday. She has two younger siblings, they are also beautiful. The three of them together bring joy to my soul by just being themselves. Yet someone had to be first and so it is that this daughter is my firstborn daughter. I remember the time of her birth […]
Read More Day by Day: But Not In That Way?There 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 GainsMy wife and I were having a conversation recently. In it I was musing on how sad it is that no single person will ever know all there is to know about another individual. She concurred that it would be impossible for that to happen, but not in the sense that it’s necessarily a bad […]
Read More Not Just One: Need for RotationAhhhhhhh the shape. What makes it the way it is how the lines join up. They might join in a pointed manner. There might be a flow throughout as though there is a single line. Either way the shape is given its definition by the lines that keep in touch. Life is a lot about […]
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