Thoughts and Other Things

We are more than half way through the year. When considering goals and resolutions set for the year when it began, one is tempted to let go of some when we seeing the time left. Well, I’m here to let you know that you shouldn’t allow passing time to speak you out of your goals or dreams. We easily talk ourselves out of things and postpone things because we feel pressured by time, finances, unforeseen circumstances, people’s opinions or whatever else choses to challenge us. We slowly move away from what we are passionate about, from what we’ve always dreamt of doing, just because we’ve allowed ourselves to be talked out of it. But I’m learning that as God’s child, apologising and retreating from what my faith has lead me to is not an option. Not only because I’m capable beyond my comprehension, but because it doesn’t please God. “But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him. But we are not of those who shrink back and are destro...

Earlier this year I received a phone call from my brother whom we had lost contact with for almost a decade. Shortly after that I had a phone conversation with a little human who called me ‘aunti’. I have a number of titles I go by, but I found myself falling deeply in love with how this little voice put ‘aunti’ before my name. Ever since I’ve been praying for a chance to go meet her. God answered my prayers. This week I drove down to Durban to go meet my niece Luyanda and it was way more than I bargained for. I had a mental image of how I wanted this trip to go. Firstly, it was supposed to be a girls trip with my younger sisters (that dad was sponsoring). But just 8 hours before we left, father decided he was coming along, promising not to be an inconvenience. I cannot relate with his spontaneity as I plan everything to the dot, even my trips to town. So the perfectionist in me wanted to complain because this is not how ‘we’ planned it. Time was ignored because, well, my father...