anchor
I wake in the wake of tragedy. Though I was nowhere near the coastline of the horrific events that rocked the ship of Sandy Hook Elementary School, the resulting ripples have reverberated across an ocean. Absolutely tragic. Senseless. Heartbreaking. Just a few of...
boxes in the sky
Well, it’s that time again. Packing time. This marks my ninth move in ten years. Perhaps the most time consuming aspect of this exercise is sorting through all the goods we have accumulated and having to decide which are precious enough to occupy space and weight...
my cup overflows
One of my hopes for this blog is that the content of these posts would magnify God in the mundane. Today’s mundane happens to be samp. What? Samp. (If you’re American and you don’t know what samp is, try Wikipedia. If you’re South African and you don’t know...
the gift and the giver
When my daughter was three, we lived in an apartment complex. Our next-door neighbors were a lovely elderly couple who adored our kids. Almost every time the wife saw our daughter, she had something deliciously sweet to offer. Hard candies, lollipops, biscuits,...
wonder
The following post was written as part of Lisa-Jo Baker's "Five-Minute Friday" challenge. Write freely for five minutes on the topic of the week, and link it back to her blog to see what others have contributed. This week's topic is Wonder. As we prepare to...
community
This weekend, I witnessed community. I witnessed community when a friend's toilet got blocked and he called us to borrow our plunger. He could've just gone to the store to buy one, but he chose to drive to our house to borrow ours. Community. At church, one kid...
lean on me
Some may have seen it as a normal, run-of-the-mill, Friday night music rehearsal in preparation for the Sunday morning church service. For me, it was more than that. For me, it was a tangible portrait of the interdependency of the body of Christ. You see, there...
blessed be the name
This morning, our home church in Cape Town (for 17 years for Kagiso and 10 years for me) had a special farewell service for our family in conjunction with the annual Thanksgiving service. During the service, I had an opportunity to share the following: In the...
thanksgiving
In school, we've been studying American history, with a focus this year on how America was colonized and how the Europeans first settled and established the early colonies and later formed the United States. It baffles my mind to consider what it must have been...
letter from dad
I stumbled upon this piece of paper today, folded in six in the bottom of a keepsake box. Yes, it's dated as the 15th of September 1994. 18 years old. Almost ready to become a museum exhibit. It has made its way from the zipped pocket of my tennis racket case,...
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