Tag: 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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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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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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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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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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SHOULD YOU BE ON SUICIDE WATCH?
…So, I’m taking a walk in the early morning because it calms me. It provides me with ‘space’ to think with the fringe benefits of unlimited access to fresh air, freedom to move and a front row seat to the sights and sounds of God’s creation, up close and in living color. Suddenly my quiet…
Circle of Grace 