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

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

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 have forgotten to turn ...

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

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 friend comes and whispers...

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 stretch them, others ...

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 for Christmas Eve ce...

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 now NINE weeks into ...

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. Simply join your life...

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 my hair wildly with ...

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

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 the time of year, or...

Have you ever raced against your own “personal best”? “PB” they call it, and it frees one runner to clap for another, each running an individual race. And wh...

Hope is the highway to our desired future. When we keep hoping, we keep pushing, we keep running, we keep watering, we keep praying...

Twenty-nineteen, the year that started with a stroke of the cheek from a waking miracle, has accelerated as fast as the miraculous healing of the child that w...

I sit in front of my keyboard and find myself unable to write more than a sentence on any given subject. As I look to express the various events of the last ...

“Kiara, I’m running out of questions to ask you,” the neurosurgeon joked. "You really don't need any further medical treatment..."

Oh, how I love the attention God pays to the detail. And why should we be surprised? The God who delighted in defining the atom, in delicately weaving connec...

And why should we expose the weaknesses and faults, the sins and shortcomings in our lives? There is a danger to “hanging it all out there”.

The morning after Kiara’s first shower, I am surprised to see her come through to the lounge for school with her head uncovered. Our littlest two have passed...