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 …
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 …
‘The thing about favour is that it opens doors, but it also starts wars in the form of jealousy. Just look at the life of Joseph.’ Bernie Ooley 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 …
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 …
We really don’t know how much time we have left on this earth. Two deaths in my family made me realize the brevity of life, and how short and fleeting it really is. We get so accustomed to the sunrises and sunsets of our lives that we don’t realize just how quickly time is running …
For the last couple of days, I’ve been thinking about how we tend to overcomplicate our lives greatly. We mistrust the people in our lives, and we second guess their motives. We are highly suspicious of others’ words and actions. We also believe everyone has an agenda, a terrible trick up their sleeves. We replay …
This week, I relaunched my creative arts endeavor, The Creative Community (formerly known as JBay Creatives). Exactly a year ago, I launched JBay Creatives with the idea that I was going to start my creative writing classes. The name & logo was designed, marketing was done via newspapers and radio stations, motivational talks at schools …
‘Community is messy.’ Banning Liebscher Last night we watched a brilliant teaching by Banning Liebscher, aptly titled ‘Living An Intentional Life.’ Banning is the founder and pastor of Jesus Culture in Sacrament, USA. He spoke about how the type of soil that we plant ourselves in, matters greatly. Three things nurture the soil in our …