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Lighthouse

Recently, I had a very sobering experience. A friend I worked with had acted in an uncharacteristic manner. To clear the tension, I thought to speak with her about it both to express how I felt and to understand her viewpoint. Two things sobered me up from the conversation; first
Posted November 10, 2022
4 mins read
Daily Living

Burnout

In the past couple of weeks, more than ever, the Holy Spirit spoke to me many times about – BURN OUTS! You see, the weeks leading up to this month were extremely busy ones for me. There were times I felt overwhelmed by the sheer thought of all I had
Posted June 23, 2021
7 mins read
Relationships

Graceful

Watching children interact with themselves is very interesting. Schools have been out for the Easter holidays and I have listened to some very interesting conversations. As we’ve gone through school work, my older son has commented on how easy his younger sister’s work is. I have reminded him that it
Posted April 4, 2021
4 mins read
Daily Living

Whose voice?

I have had this song by Moses Bliss playing in my head since yesterday. I woke up with it playing… I played it on my way to work. It has just been all over the place in my head. In a world of so many voices | Lord I will
Posted March 10, 2021
5 mins read
Relationships

Don’t stop till you finish

My post, struck a chord for a lot of people (including me) and there were some  questions. Some of those questions were: How do I make sure it is really a different me this year? I am tired of the same old patterns, starting out with zeal and quitting half
Posted January 19, 2021
5 mins read
Daily Living

Devoid of the void

I took a  peek at one of my social media platforms today. I haven’t been online in a bit and a quick glance at the “trending stories” showed someone had died. A closer look showed he had committed suicide. Reading his suicide note(s) was tough enough, reading the comments under
Posted January 13, 2021
6 mins read
Daily Living

New Year – Same You?

Happy New Year!!!! I was one of those who waited excitedly for this Year. A lot happened last year, I was truly glad when the clock chimed midnight on 1st January. Ushering in a New Year. I bet you were as well. As I left my house for church activities
Posted January 6, 2021
4 mins read
Family

Sleep routines

In the next couple of posts, I will be sharing some routines that we started as a family, which helped us maintain order and sort of put our family on auto pilot. These routines helped us during busy school weeks, or when we had to be out of town with
Posted October 5, 2020
5 mins read
Family

Family routines

Being a planner by nature, routines helped me plan for my growing family. They helped me when we had sleep overs and I  had more mouths to feed or more people in my family than normal. They helped me during the lockdown and made sure everyone had breathing space even
Posted September 25, 2020
2 mins read
Daily Living

Turn on the light

The other day I sent my son to grab my purse from my room. The lights were off and he groped around the room for a bit then after some minutes of feigned exasperation he walked back to where he knew the light switch was and turned it on! Finding
Posted August 5, 2020
4 mins read