One difficult thing with God is that when He created the complex creature called a human He did not send the blueprint with them at birth. This would have made life a whole lot easier as all difficulties would have been solved by consulting the ‘accompanying manual’. Now that this is not possible, we are […]

I saw a horrific accident today. Someone overtook on a bend and drove into an innocent oncoming person who had just knocked off and was rushing home to join his family in the Christmas mode. All ended in a roadside wreck with our friend on life support. These are physical accidents but during the year […]

The past week has been one that has seen a lot of my friends and I face shadows. One painful thing about shadows is that they bring paleness. Paleness bears the rancor of emptiness and dearth. Shadows block the sun and leave you shivering and cold. Shadows leave you wondering whether you are that bad […]

Seldom do we value the good that other people bring to us until we are left to face the elements on our own. As humanity we fail to appreciate the good in other people, continually postponing our plans to pay them a visit, make a special call (not asking for help or lamenting our problems) […]

The time when you put your feet up, dim the lights and play that solemn wailing sonata cd that has scratch bumps every 90 seconds, everyone who knows you will be aware that those dark clouds are back. When those moments hit, no one will return your ‘please call me backs’, no one will answer […]

This has been a difficult week for me. I faced hard terrain and difficult schedules. I had to make tough calls and travel more than 1600km. In all this I kept going back to the realization that all our actions are shaped by our perception of the people in front of us.  In all our […]

42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, 43 and said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked, and said, “There is […]

To all my friends that have walked the dreaded path of pain, To all the spouses who have endured all forms of pain in trying to re-ignite love, To everyone who has been conned, played, betrayed, insulted , stabbed, infected, poisoned, maligned in the quest to walk the path of openness, truth ,fidelity , honesty, […]

This is going to be my shortest post. It is dedicated to a breed of people that have kept the world on its axis (though largely unappreciated). This is to a people that we bang phones at, swear at, fight with, remove from Facebook connections and yet these are the people whose hand reaches out […]