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7 April 2026

Good Friday Meditation

This is crazy! When I tried to post this blog on Saturday, I couldn’t get into my website – kept telling me there was a database […]
31 January 2026

Unholy Horror

Jesus assures us that everything that is done in the dark will be revealed by the light. I, and others, have hung onto these scriptures waiting […]
19 January 2026

Thy Kingdom Come

I believe each of us has a God sized hole in our hearts that yearns for the security of eternity, of knowing where we are headed […]
2 January 2026

Summer of Storms

This is the title of a book I thought I wanted to write somewhere along the pathway of my chequered life, but at no stage does […]
23 December 2025

That Special Child

And just like that, it’s Christmas. The cry all around me is: where did the year go? I also felt pressured and panicked that the end […]
6 November 2025

Forgive Us.

I have just spent a wonderful ten days in Botswana with my firstborn son. For five of those days, we disappeared into the ‘bush’ as we […]
25 September 2025

On the Rock Face

God’s question to me today, after watching a snippet from *Bob Goff, is “will I trust Him on the rock face?” A part of me wants […]
11 September 2025

By the Words of One’s Mouth

I have been increasingly filled with a subliminal sense of unease over the past months, concerned at the rhetoric coming out of the United States of […]
2 August 2025

Always the Children – Why?

I can’t see it, I can’t hear it, but it’s there, ominously grunting with each thrust against the innocence of the child who can’t fight back, […]
1 August 2025

The Jaded Rainbow Dream

“Education was viewed as a part of the overall apartheid system including ‘homelands’, urban restrictions, pass laws and job reservation. This role was one of labourer, […]
24 July 2025

Now is Too Late

The video looped on and on. I couldn’t stop watching. I couldn’t react. A shattered street littered with bricks and debris, no discernible buildings, no adults, […]
13 June 2025

Kruger Magic

Legogote Mountain was etched against the indeterminate blue of pre-dawn, gentle horizontal clouds lit with delicate pink and pale grey gave substance to the morning. I […]
9 May 2025

Lone and Level Sands

I wonder how long it will be before the world, and Americans, understand that Donald Trump means every word he says. Behind the bluster and buffoonery, […]
5 April 2025

Then and Now

Back in November last year, after the American’s voted for Trump, I joined a group of international women writers to express how we felt about the […]
2 April 2025

All God’s Chillun

‘Evening, Glenda, in one short sentence, how would you comment on Sipho’s War?’ ‘I have mixed reactions to the title!’ I looked at this message for […]
3 March 2025

Fabulous February

February was a crazy month and one that blew my socks off! Two highly successful launches were held for Sipho’s War, one in White River, one […]
15 February 2025

By Their Fruits

I am someone who can be dogmatic in my beliefs and I am constantly seeking the Lord for help in tempering my discourse, so this probably […]
11 February 2025

Lift Off!

We say in Africa that it takes a village to raise a child – I will add to this and say it takes a community to […]