Taking The Wrong Things Seriously

There are some things that matter, and there are other things that don’t.  Some are more obvious than others. For example take a pastime like football.  Some have claimed that it is just a bunch of men running after an inflated pig’s bladder to kick it in between three white sticks along a white line. […]

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Dealing With Real Issues

I love God for putting in my life beautiful people who helped me to deal with real issues from the perspective of being nothing but real.  Real with God, real with the close loved ones and real with myself.  When I had marital issues, these people didn’t fudge around the issue and talk in buzzwords […]

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Thank God For Hot Ribena

I don’t know the genius who came up with just bottling blackcurrant juice as a concentrate, and then getting people to buy it a dilute it.  I don’t know the genius, but every night for the last five nights I have prayed a blessing on him/her and his/her family. Truly when my chest feels sore, […]

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Hibernation and Preparation

While others love the summer sun and some enjoy the new life of spring, with the proponents for the golden leaves of Autumn, I have to stake my claim in saying my favourite season of the cycle is Winter. One of the things I love about the season is how it’s a season of death, […]

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Abundant Life

I sat around today in a family gathering and people were exchanging gifts.  Don’t know what that was all about. What it triggered off though was an amazing gift a man, who wasn’t born anywhere near this date, spoke of to some listeners.  The context is important.  He was talking of how a good shepherd […]

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