I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear Nelson Mandela On 4 December 2020, during Covid, I donated my kidney. It was a long journey to get to the day of […]
5 August 2017 Sometimes you just need to talk to a four-year-old and an 84-year-old to understand life again. (Kristen Butler) I have been in a tug of war to write this article. It is easy to write when you have worked through your feelings, or when time has passed and healing has taken place.
it’s okay if people don’t like you, most people don’t even like themselves Read More »
7 July 2017 I am still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for. (Rudy Francis) I was listening to myself speak lately and I realised that I was carrying a lot of unspoken stress. The emotions that I felt caught me completely off guard and I wondered why I
you can’t wake a person that is pretending to be asleep Read More »
9 June 2017 I used to feel uncomfortable when people asked me why I am estranged from my family. It is difficult to explain a life-long struggle in a few sentences. How do you describe the rejection and the hurt? How do you share openly without being judged? People with strong relational families find it
let go… or be dragged Read More »
5 May 2017 “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”Kurt Vonnegut I have often been fascinated by people’s perspectives; the fact that two people can look at the same thing or event and experience totally opposite emotions.I have seen siblings growing up in the
don’t look at me in that tone of voice! Read More »
8 April 2017 “Conscious aging is a new way of looking at and experiencing aging that moves beyond our cultural obsession with youth toward a respect and need for the wisdom of age” (Stephan Rechtschaffen, M.D.) I recently had the privilege of walking my daughter down the aisle. Two weeks later we were celebrating my
do not regret growing older ~ it is a privilege denied to many Read More »
10 May 2017 Waiting is definitely a test. It tests our patience and our loyalty. It tests our love and our mercy. Waiting is not for the weak. (Lee Young) I consider myself a patient person but waiting on God changed me forever. Waiting chiseled at my rough edges. It revealed to me my true
patience is also a form of action Read More »
28 Januarie 2017 Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. Charles Spurgeon April 2006 She fell ill with a fever that I could not contain. I rushed her to hospital late at night and before we could gather our bearings, she was
even so, it is well with my soul. Read More »
4 January 2017 I have always been a person with a to-do list. But there were many days when I became a slave to my lists. Things don’t always happen as planned and I would feel like a failure if I wasn’t able to cross out all the tasks that I allocated to a
a goal should scare you a little and excite you a LOT! Read More »
4 December 2016 My family is in a good space at the moment. When I look back on the past seventeen years of being a single parent, I know that we are here by God’s grace. Nothing else. We had an eventful life, full of ups and downs, uncertainties and stress. Despite everything that happened,
Metanoia (n.) the journey of changing one’s mind, heart, self, or way of life Read More »
