Counterfeit Peace
I have been seeing so many dark brown handbags lately of a certain designer often associated with the very wealthy. A dear friend who often goes to the Far East to shop refers to them as Louis Venter handbags…enough said! They really look like the real deal- to my very untrained eye they could in…
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Hourglasses and stopwatches.
We all have a different perspective about the here and now. For some it’s the struggle of a daily existence of pain and suffering. Perhaps its dire poverty or a relentless illness or a difficult situation. For some it’s the hope of the next good thing – what I will afford next year, the job I’ll…
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New Every Morning
Take a look at this photo above. This is what I woke up to this morning…each day it amazes me that there can be such beauty in front of me to welcome in the new day. Every day the clouds are a bit different, the mountain is highlighted slightly differently and the hues and shades…
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Good Friday thoughts
Imagine a list of every single sin, every crime, every stronghold, every disease, every condition of the body, mind and spirit of all mankind from Adam to the very last person to walk this earth. Now imagine one person taking all that on Himself. To die on a cross in the time of Jesus was…
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Surrounded
When I take my dogs for a walk, Murphy will trot on ahead with a bold and cocky confidence, completely unperturbed if I am close by or not. Pacino on the other hand will keep looking back to see if I am behind him. If I stop to talk to someone, Pacino stops too. If…
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Heart Clutter
I have a room outside my house that was previously used as a staff lounge. When it was no longer needed as that, it somehow turned into a storage space for everything that did not need to be keep inside the house. When I moved my mom out of her flat I housed all her…
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Knock Knock, WHO’s there?
Who are you behind your name? What do people learn about you shortly after an introduction? If we attend a certain college, school, church or follow a certain sports club or organization its easy to build our identity on being a follower or member of one of the above. We use phrases like “ I’m…
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Forever and then what ?
We all have a different perspective about the here and now. For some it’s the struggle of a daily existence of pain and suffering, dire poverty or a relentless illness. For others it’s the hope of the next good thing – what I will afford next year, the job I’ll have in 6 months, finishing…
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The Chase
How often do we fail to thoroughly enjoy moments that we have been given? I find myself more often than I’d like to admit being in a moment whilst thinking of what lies ahead. That moment will pass so quickly and we cannot go back there or revisit beautiful ones that we’ve wasted. There have…
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The Saviour Complex
I’ve often listened to people, myself included, complain about the lack of responsibility, ability or wisdom exercised by others around them but in the very next moment step in and do whatever they can for that very same person. The need to compensate and do everything for a person can very easily lead us to…
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The ABC’s of surrender
This morning as I struggle with the full surrender of a situation that is weighing heavily on my heart, I have felt all sorts of emotions ranging from a frantic hopelessness to a guilt that makes me squirm for not trusting as I’ve always told people to do. The “just trust God” pill that that…
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Right size, wrong fit
I recently watched a video of a dog getting a hair cut and his entire coat came off in one piece shaped exactly like him tail and all. This made me think of the coats we wear that can fit perfectly, even being cut in our exact shape but are coats that we were never…
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Final goodbyes and final hello’s
“Precious in the sight of the Lord Is the death of His saints.” Psalm 116:15 My mom has been growing increasingly frail with metastatic Basal Cell Carcinomas as well as advanced dementia and at the moment weighs probably around 36kg. As we await her imminent death I’m reminded of a few things: Heaven is actually…
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Gathering the Spoils
We recently got to celebrate a huge victory in our family when my niece became the proud recipient of a much coveted Grammy award for a song that was borne out of a season of lack in her life. In the very hard and long battle of infertility, while waiting for God to show Himself…
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The Inner Circle
We are all familiar with the expression ‘inner circle’ referring to a group of people with whom we all want to be associated. Being in the inner circle allows us a familiarity with whoever commands the circle. Imagine being in the inner circle of God? I see so many standing around the outer edges of…
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A Strangers Voice
At any given time we are surrounded by so many voices and noises that it is often almost impossible to distinguish one from another. One voice that is almost missable amongst the many is the voice of God. It often seems to melt away amongst every other sound fighting for your attention. How can we…
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Losing my religion
In South Africa we live with high walls surrounding our homes. Electric fences, security guards, beams and all sorts of systems are designed to keep us protected and separated from any danger. We are barricaded on all sides from the ‘monsters’ that lurk on the outsides of our comfortable bubbles far from the maddening crowds.…
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Great Expectations
As we celebrate Easter Sunday today, I have to wonder what the disciples were feeling when waking up on that first Easter day when Jesus rose from the dead. He had told them that He would be raised three days after dying on the cross. I wonder if they expected Him to do as He’d…
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Killing me softly
What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. Isaiah 5:20 The one thing that we hear over and over in churches of all or most denominations is that God’s grace covers our sin.…
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The Lines in the Sand
Marriage is a strange concept- two people stand in front of another person who has been given the authority to declare them legally bound to one another for the rest of their lives here on earth. Modern day marriage is a little less restrictive and has a lot less boundaries in place. Firstly its not…
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Change the way you ask
When we ask with an expectant heart we can ask and ask for days, weeks even years and still know that God will answer. Time isn’t an indication of Gods faithfulness. The Bible tells us that a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day to God. When you know…
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What’s the rush?
Walking next to Jesus or close behind Him allows Him to either walk with us or to lead us. In Him, we have a guide, a friend and companion. The path He walks on with us is a path of His purpose where His will is done . Often we stay on the path but…
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Refresh Navigator
On our home automation system there is “Refresh Navigator” option for when the system gets stuck or reacts too slowly. This is a sort of reboot that just gets the system back on track when its lagging. I was thinking about how close we are to a new year- exactly 4 days away- and I…
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Stretch or SNAP
With Christmas and 2023 approaching, lots of Black Friday specials (in a country where we don’t even celebrate Thanksgiving- go figure), irresponsible driving after office parties, our levels of frustration, panic, fear and overwhelming emotions of all sorts are particularly heightened. At the slightest provocation we find ourselves at a breaking point about to snap.…
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Plugged in and charged up
This morning I was reading a devotional by Anne Voskamp and the question she posed was “why do you get up every morning?” She had seen this question on a billboard and the 3 answers that were given were as follows : Fear of failure, Need to succeed, For the love of your life. For…
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A time for reaping
About 5 years ago I decided to try and grow an avocado pip into a tree. The excitement that I felt when I saw that first leaf to when it actually started growing a foot high, then a meter high and eventually over the period of a couple of years, way-over-my- head high was like…
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Stench and fragrance
As we go about our day encountering people and sharing spaces with people we may or may not know or even speak to, let us carry with us the FRAGRANCE of Jesus. We live surrounded by the stench of the world and the sinful nature thereof embedded in its very atmosphere. As with any foul…
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Meaningful Nothings
As a human race, we are all searching for meaning to our existence. We need a reason to be, a purpose to fulfil as well as having a deep craving for acknowledgement and recognition. This is so evident just by looking at social media posts and the amount of unhappiness that is masked in glorious…
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In the Presence of my Enemies
As I sit here this morning excited about all the wonderful things that the next few weeks hold, I am so aware that these are what make up my “buffet table”. The world is still reeling from Covid, the news is now full of the Ukrainian devastation, poverty is all around, friends are sick with…
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