God knows the desires of our hearts. However small or insignificant it might seem, he knows it, sees it, and hears it. I had a friendship with two girls that come from similar backgrounds as I did, and after a fleeting friendship, it didn’t work out. My heart ached because they were creatives just like …
Month: July 2022
We all know the story of Jabez pretty well. His birth was a painful one, so his mother cursed him and gave him a name that means ‘he who causes sorrow’. But Jabez flipped the curse by asking the Lord, ‘Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might …
‘Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be broken.’ In high school, I struggled with flexibility. I desperately wanted to control everything in my life. It’s only recently that I realized that the root cause of it was because there was one thing in my life that I couldn’t control: my hearing loss. Fast …
How do you know when your season is about to change? This previous Saturday, we hosted a Winter Workshop in Jeffrey’s Bay (for more info, go to The Creative Community). The focus was on ‘The Art of the Heart’, and we asked the participants to write a summary, then a timeline of their lives thus …
For the last week or so, the Lord has been highlighting someone to me in my thoughts. Every conversation I’ve had with her in the past, every comment she made, all her actions and inactions towards me. Holy Spirit was leading me as I was combing through every single encounter I’ve had with her, and …
Throughout the years, my father always took care of my car. He regularly sent it in for a service, made sure it was filled with petrol, and always arranged with the gardener to wash my car. I never had to worry about it, I simply drove it. Now that my father isn’t here anymore, the …