19 September 2017
I’m a tree. I’ve been a tree for a long time. I live on the banks of the Khwai River. It is a peaceful spot and […]
5 April 2017
Whenever the Lord starts giving me scriptures about trusting Him, it’s a sure-fire certainty that I am about to be tested in this area. The […]
13 February 2017
I read an account in our local paper a while back of a woman who had been robbed by the person she employed as domestic helper. […]
7 February 2017
It all started before Christmas. I was on my way home from Nelspruit when I did something really stupid. On a previous trip, during winter, I […]
30 January 2017
I try and walk most mornings, weather and lungs permitting. A few months back, much against my better judgement, I allowed myself to be talked into […]
19 January 2017
There are many conflicting thoughts running around in my head today, so this blog may turn into three! Over the past week I have, among other […]
7 January 2017
It’s four and a half hours since I awoke to a silent house, no hum of fridges, or water pumps, or daylight switches humming their warning […]
31 December 2016
Goodbye 2016 I was watching a review of 2016 on eNCA that outlined instances of racism that made headline news in South Africa during 2016. This […]
13 October 2016
The Morning Wind An errant breeze ruffled curtains A glimpse of indigo sky The morning star proudly incandescent There’s a whispering in the cane […]
6 June 2016
It really is ridiculous. I came back from a wonderful refreshing ten days in Mozambique, and then what happened? How did five weeks fly by, and […]
11 May 2016
Just when you possibly all thought I had disappeared for good, here I am, back again, after a wonderful break in my old haunt in Mozambique. […]
20 April 2016
A large part of repentance is making right the wrong you have done. I think that at times this making good is so horrific that it […]
14 April 2016
After that golden morning on the beach, when the Lord decided I had had enough cossetting and now needed to take the next step of my […]
31 March 2016
Through all the years of turmoil in my life I was quite confident that I trusted the Lord. I was a committed Christian who had read […]
24 March 2016
Words are living, with a creative power that can work for good or bad. God spoke the world into being. The Word of God is living, […]
18 March 2016
Thank heavens it’s Friday! It’s been a long while since I felt relieved to be at the end of a week, and hopefully at the end […]
14 March 2016
Last week I spoke about divorce, and how clear the word is with regard to re-marriage. I don’t for one minute think that God withdrew His […]
11 March 2016
It’s truly a Friday for a frolic: the mountains are shining, washed green by the rain, puddles abound to the delight of the birds, the sun […]
8 March 2016
So here I was at the beach, trying to make some sense of my life, why I had followed the path that I had, what […]
4 March 2016
There was one of those straight white clouds across the sky this morning. It was crystal clear and made me think of the beach in Mozambique, […]
27 February 2016
I must apologise for missing last week’s Friday frolic. All good intentions went overboard when my house took a very close lightning strike the previous night, […]
24 February 2016
I was fortunate enough to be invited to be part of a counselling team going to Mozambique this past weekend, to minister to some inner city […]