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    Sparrow, Pearl and Waterfall

    June 4, 2021 - By 

    The Lesson of the Sparrow  This beautiful feather-winged creature, with a voice bigger than itself, sings out every morning. The early bird sets off to catch his worm. Dodging raindrops, soaring like a military airplane through the battlefields, this tiny music box doesn’t seem to be bothered by any obstacles around him. Swift and agile, he moves and thinks as fast as his wings.  Under the watchful eye of his newly found love, he so patiently weaves his low-hanging nest. He doesn’t stop singing. If you listen carefully, his chirps grow louder each time. Merrily, they synchronise their movements, gracefully…

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    7 Spiritual Ways To Cope During Challenging Times

    May 11, 2021 - By 

    Some of my earliest childhood memories are that of my Dad preaching of the end times. Wide-eyed, I eagerly listened through the winter nights of the 1980s. I remember stories of Lot’s wife: the woman who looked back, and of fire and brimstone beating down on the city of Sodom and Gomorrah.  With a raised index finger – a habit that still distinguishes him – he preached with such gusto. “The days are coming when the church doors will be closed, and the nights will be darkened by death and sorrow. You will be separated from your family. What will…

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    Letters to my grieving friend

    April 2, 2021 - By 

    Letter 3: From His footstool to His throne My dearest friend, Last night was extremely difficult for you. I sensed your panic as the reality of you never seeing your loved one again sets in. Grief has bored its way so deep into the very core of your being. It has only been a few weeks but it feels like a lifetime of separation. As we wept through the night, my mind drifted to our younger days.  We were in our twenties then, young wives and new mums. We were hungry for the things of the spirit. We danced through…

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    What the world sees as trash God sees as treasure

    March 26, 2021 - By 

    Part 2: Eureka “A diamond on the finger of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.” – Joseph Roux I live in a country that is known for its diamonds. South Africa maintains its position as a major diamond producer in the world. Diamonds, natural creations made from carbon, are said to warm up any heart of stone. Our gemstone story began in 1866 at the Orange River, when the young 15-year-old, Erasmus Jacobs, found a transparent pebble on his father’s farm. At the time, he did not know the value of this 21.25 carat stone.…

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    Letters to my grieving friend

    March 18, 2021 - By 

    Letter 2: Life Gear My dearest friend, You have been in my daily prayer, more so on the weekends. The heavy rain and storm over the last few days made me wonder how the disciples must have felt when they found Jesus sleeping on the boat in the middle of the storm (Mark 4:35-41). As I watched the high boisterous waves crash over our shores, I could imagine the fear and crippling anxiety that the disciples must have felt. I could picture being tossed around in that little fisherman’s boat without any form of life-saving gear around me to protect…

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    What the world sees as trash God sees as treasures

    March 12, 2021 - By 

    Part 1: Segullah “You are worthless!” “You are good for nothing.” “Nothing good can come of you”.  If these are the words that are shouted at you or if these are words that you say to yourself, then this abuse needs to stop now. The common idiom, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, is so profound. What man may see as trash in his weak earthly view of life, God sees as potential. God sees us as His treasured possession.   The Hebrew word for treasure is Segullah (סְגֻלָּה ), pronounced “seh-goo-LAH” which is translated as “treasured possession.” In the…

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    Letters to my grieving friend

    February 19, 2021 - By 

    Letter 1: Keeping House My dearest friend…  I have flashbacks of our childhood, the days where we played house with your tiny red metal toy pots, which I so loved to play with. Do you remember your toy stove and the little plastic silver teaspoons? It feels like yesterday, doesn’t it? While I harvested weeds and berries to whip up my make-believe dinners, you always had those surprise ingredients cooking in your pots: sliced green beans and chopped carrots which your mum so generously shared with us from that night’s dinner preparations. Our playtimes were so innocent. We often took…

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    10 Reasons Why God Is Not Bothered By Your Past Regrets

    August 31, 2020 - By 

    Today I was reminded of my past failures, sins and regrets. I remembered the times when I disappointed God and might have broken His heart. The place was sad and full of pain; regrets that I could have done things differently. Does this bother God? Why do we remember these moments of past regrets? Does it stem from a negative place or is it just that we feel that God has not forgiven us? Is it the enemy pulling us down or is it God reminding us that we were once sinners saved by His Grace? Maybe we remember because…

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    The Ultimate Guide To Finding Inner Peace?

    May 24, 2020 - By 

    When you hold onto the power of inner peace, you hold the keys to survival. Inner peace fuels inner strength, it will drive you to push beyond yourself, propelling you to fight life’s battles. You become the calm in the middle of the storm. Inner peace will be the force that will keep you anchored and rooted so deep that nothing can tear you down. “I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at…

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    Can God find me when I feel lost?

    May 18, 2020 - By 

    Maybe you don’t feel the gentle tug of God’s hand over your life anymore. Like a kite carried by the wind, somewhere along the line, you feel that you were snapped off God’s hands. You feel aimless, just drifting further into the unknown. Spinning and nose-diving deeper into darkness, you have lost your way. You don’t have peace. You circle the same place over and over again; the same hurts and same disappointments, they are just packaged differently with different names and different faces. The cycle of hurt is on continuous repeat. You don’t have control. More and more of…