The first paragraph in Scott Peck’s book, The Road Less Travelled, is the following: Life is difficult. I suspect most of us can write pages and pages, some even books, to describe the Life is difficult in our lives. When you show up and enrol in Christianity, when you choose Jesus as your Saviour, it’s […]
Read moreLife isn’t easy! It’s as if every second person is suffering from cancer. Car accidents keep getting bigger and bigger and wreak incredible havoc. Without prior notice, the sun sets over people’s financial landscape causing a disaster. Suddenly we learn words like palliative care. People stand in long queues at the MRI scanning machine. My […]
Read moreI can really identify with Mel (not her real name). Maybe you too? She writes: For the past few weeks, I feel like everything is just going wrong and nothing is working out. It feels like I’ve gone through hard times in the past, but what I’m going through right now takes the cake. I […]
Read moreThis saying was born from my way of life: I wish I could live as close to the Lord in the good times as I do in the hard times, because then the hard times would not be necessary. This certainly does not apply to everybody, but I know in hard times I’m much closer […]
Read moreThere is so much injustice in the world. So many people who suffer. I caught the police commissioner’s quarterly report: 5 760 people murdered, 10 006 people raped in South Africa … Shocking. How many people’s lives were broken apart by this, some completely destroyed? What is wrong with those people who did this? We […]
Read moreI was already an entrepreneur when I was still at school. Not that I knew that was what it was called. As a widow my Mom worked hard to put food on the table, but I had to work for my own pocket money. And I wasn’t afraid of work. One day we got a […]
Read moreAnsie writes: I struggle and grapple with a lot of things. In his immense grace God has put an end to many. I can laugh again and I enjoy every day. I feel as if I’m living a second life. I have tried to commit suicide. Through God’s grace I lived to raise the five […]
Read moreAnn emailed me after I wrote about a friend’s four-month old baby’s cot death: Our daughter died in February – she was 27 years old. I feel for these people who lost their baby – there are no words for that – no words of consolation, but what we do understand is that we cannot […]
Read moreLooking at this scripture again, I think back on an event from my days in the business world. One day I had to go to the CCMA. The union had summonsed me for some ridiculous matter. Therefore, I had to go and talk to total strangers about the things my own people did. I didn’t […]
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