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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Prayer, People and Persistence

It’s weird when I think about. There’s really nothing about me that would make me someone who is naturally inclined to enjoy prayer meetings. Growing up in a church background I genuinely found prayer and prayer meetings to be among the most boring parts of the Christian practices to which I was exposed. I remember […]

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Stick or Twist: A Dryden Update

One of my favourite definitions of defiance is insisting that Thursday is the best day of the week even if you have a Thursday that was … shall we say less than desirable. The thing about having Thursday as the favourite day of the week is that it heightens the capacity to look for the […]

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Staying On The Scent

I love me some Columbo. I think he’s one of the best fictional detectives ever. So there’s this episode that features a professor getting killed remotely by two of his students and the two students look to be as ‘helpful’ as they can in the investigation with the Lieutenant. It’s fair to say they look […]

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Resist By Focusing – Part 1

I appeared to have taken the suggestion too far. Surely there was no need to behave like this. It was not to the neglect of those around me, indeed it helped tremendously to converse with them. What it did do, however, was give what appeared to be a tunnel vision. I wasn’t carrying on the […]

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The Standard

Jesus is the Standard. Well duh, you might think. That’s, like, so obvious. Of course he’s the standard, it’s not going to be anyone else is it? Funny I should ask that on your behalf. Recently I was doing a test for … ahhhh well that would be telling, it was just a test in […]

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