Category: Relationships
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‘DEAD SEA SYNDROME’
We were created to be relational and relationships that work calls for giving and receiving. If you refuse to give, you will not create room to receive. Just like the Dead Sea, you will die without the ability to produce anything. A balance must be maintained in your giving, but our lives should always be a revolving door…
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EMOTIONS
Temporary or Permanent? Valentine’s day is almost two weeks in the past. It was a quiet one for me maybe because I’ve come to realise that the expression of love should be an every-day occurrence. I’m not knocking those of you who have celebrated in big or small ways. It’s your prerogative to do so, and I hope…
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS VS REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS
It’s a couple days away from Valentine’s Day and I had the occasion to speak with one of my sister-friends who has Great Expectations for the day. She is a hopeless romantic and therefore would like for her husband to pull out all the stops plus the ‘red carpet’, in celebrating her and the day. She has…
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PERFECTION IS OVER-RATED
Today I saw this tree. It’s in an idyllic location – near a huge pond with ducks swimming nearby. It was beautiful to behold, but then in my mind I said, ‘it’s short though, almost like an overgrown bonsai tree’. It looked like someone had been pruning it to that size, but I knew this was not the…
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BE THE BEST YOU THAT YOU CAN BE!
I’ve been living with myself for the past 51 years but I’ve just recently come to accept who I am. I guess after all these years, I realise that I cannot separate from myself or divorce who I am in exchange for anyone else. I am unique. I am quirky. I am talented. I am…
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KITCHEN-SINK CONTEMPLATIONS 1
Train up a child…(Proverbs 22:6) I don’t know what my parents were thinking when they were raising us back in the late 60s, 70s and 80s, but I think they did a splendid job. Their day-to-day state of being impacted not only how we treated each other at home, but it also extended to how…
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FRIEND OR FOE?
Once upon a time there was someone that I called my ‘best friend’, but I do not know if the feeling was mutual. Maybe in word, but judging from my experience, not heart. My wakeup call came when I found out from someone else, what was her alleged life situation at the time. It was something big. Something life-changing…
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IT’S TIME TO HUDDLE!
“When yuh see yuh neighbour house on fire wet yours”. “Who have cocoa in the sun should look fuh de rain”. These are sayings that my mom would repeat if we as children would come home with a story about someone else. She was not one to encourage discussions (gossip) about other people, nor would she talk about…
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ITS ALL IN A NAME
Where I sit today, I have one regret, and it is, that I had not allowed more people to call me by my first name. I most likely would have experienced more victories in my life, where I’ve seen failures. Plus, it would have over time, in a shorter amount of time, helped me to…
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I’M NOT GIVING UP!
“It’s not over ’til the fat lady sings” My version of that saying is that ‘it’s not over until God says it’s over’. To be honest, holding on to anything (a marriage, family, friendships, dreams and expectations) can be excruciating especially when everything that you see (sense) signals that it’s not worth it. IT being…
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