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 moreSome things that are part of life we don’t want to talk about. We’d rather turn a blind eye and pretend it doesn’t exist. Unfortunately, these things often involuntarily and unexpectedly show up at our front doors. Hardship. No one likes facing hardships or challenges. I suspect our defence mechanisms are already set up in […]
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 moreVeronica invites me into her world: My children and I know exactly what hardship is. We’ve experienced it. My husband and his father spent more on Bacchus than on us. Everything was pawned or sold because of his big thirst – he would’ve died if he couldn’t quench his thirst. 32 years ago, I took […]
Read moreWhen you are faced with one challenge after the other, you get to a point where you simply cannot keep going. It just becomes too much and you have to throw in the towel. It’s human and all of us reach breaking point one time or another. This reminds me of an exercise in the […]
Read moreSome people are built for exercise. Others not. I’m fully in the second category. I don’t know why, but exercise is not easy for me. Even so, I realised that if I wanted to eat what I eat and I didn’t exercise, I would grow like a potato. And that’s why I force myself onto […]
Read moreLife doesn’t always make sense. Often in my life, I’ve asked what was the sense of the challenge I was facing. Sometimes I was discouraged by the challenge and would ask: “Why is this happening to me? I don’t understand why I have to go through this again”. Especially when you’re already under a lot […]
Read moreI’m still thinking about this question: What should I do when hardship comes knocking at the door of my life now and then, maybe more often for some? Hardship doesn’t wait for me to open the door. It crashes into my life. Marie says she doesn’t even have a door anymore. She says: Our story […]
Read moreJesus is our brother, the one who goes ahead. He shows us how to walk the road of life today. One of the most important lessons we can learn is that Jesus obeyed God 100% and carried out God’s instructions to Him exactly. It was extremely hard for Jesus to walk the Via Dolorosa. At […]
Read moreSometimes your life goes differently from what you’ve planned. After my studies, I farmed on two wonderful wine farms for 12 years. I was exposed to the day-to-day life of a farmer and all the challenges that hold. One of the major challenges is that you are controlled by nature. If there’s a drought, there’s […]
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