by Kate Motaung | Aug 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Linking up once again with the lovely Lisa-Jo Baker for Five-Minute Friday. The challenge is to write for five minutes, unedited on the word of the week. This week’s prompt is: Lonely.It’s that word that sits in the hollow pit of an empty stomach, longing to...
by Kate Motaung | Jun 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Five months ago, our little family of five crammed our most precious earthly possessions into twelve overstuffed suitcases, and traipsed across the Atlantic. In a manner of speaking, that is. To many, twelve bags weighing fifty pounds each may sound like a whole...
by Kate Motaung | Jun 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
I spent two decades of my life dependent on eyeglasses and contact lenses. Twenty years. That’s 7,300 mornings of reaching for prescription frames upon planting my sock-covered feet on the bedside floor. Then one morning, I opened my eyes, and I could see. I...
by Kate Motaung | May 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
The following article was recently posted on iBelieve.com: I heaved open the double doors to the aging gymnasium, grateful for a heated shelter from the snowy Saturday afternoon – and even more grateful for two hours of free roller-skating at the local gym to get the...
by Kate Motaung | May 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
I let my eyes slowly scan the oval perimeter of faces that lined our new living room walls – sister, cousins, aunt, uncle, significant others. My heart swelled with gratitude to be in that room … together. After a decade in a foreign country, I was finally home. Ten...
by Kate Motaung | May 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jYLTn4fKYQ bless the Lord, o my soul, worship His holy name sing like never before, o my soul i’ll worship Your holy name ..