The Delicious Grief of Parenthood I’m sitting on the side of the cricket field, watching boys becoming men in front of my eyes. I long to...

So battles are all about shifting boundaries and gaining ground, and as we’re pushed back out of the comfort of community and forced...

Battle-weary one, are you wondering how to go on? Are you remembering old messages that teach, “You Say I Am Strong when I think I am...

It’s not my first battle. Not your first, either. We’ve stood, you and me, in all-out spiritual battlefields and seen the power of life...

Life-changing revelation can bump into you in much the same way my husband and I were bumping into each other in the bathroom as we went...

Wisdom revealed shines a light on the figure of Jesus running undaunted towards the cross. He is the Champion of all champions, carrying...

2020 has floating days that pass, unharnessed, like so many dandelion seeds in the breeze. Unruly thoughts swirl just out of reach—of no...

A need to understand love has gripped me, and I’ve been pondering and praying and wrapping my brittle mind around the soft curves of...

The last few weeks have been unlike anything we have experienced - as individuals, as local communities, and as a global collective. The...

Some of the children are still sitting in their places, watching the frivolity over a table strewn with dinner dishes. My first dance is...

I’m wrapped in a dressing gown I don’t yet need… the late sunrise the only indication that summer is supposed to be over in Durban. I...

Anxiety skips around the world faster than a pandemic virus infiltrating hearts and homes, isolation barriers leaving them ironically...

2020 - The Year of Sustainable Health - has broken me in a few quick rounds and I find myself on my knees and it’s only February. A...

So we’re into the start of the New Year, some of us dragging out the bikini-wearing, G&T-sipping holidays as far into January as we can...

It’s déjà vu here at Number 23. Rich is in the pool washing off the sweat and brick dust after a couple of hours of perfecting the house...

I’m typing super-loudly today, hoping you can hear me over the bang, bang, bang of builders undoing work they just did yesterday. We are...

Are you weary and weighed down with more than you can handle? “Come to me,” Jesus says. “I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis....

How do you dry your hair after you’ve washed it? I’m one of those who throws my hair forward over my head and hangs upside down, blowing...

We finally did a long-awaited alteration at home - knocking down a braai area and rebuilding the garden wall closer to our driveway to...

How do we Stay Alive and Fresh in a Dead and Dying World? How do we stay alive and fresh in a dead and dying world? I don’t know if it’s...