Brazilian Friendships – learning to be welcomed

After a week in Brazil I now have a pause day to catch my breath and to reflect on some of the experiences I have been graced with. My friend Trevor taught me that experiences not reflected on will be lost. So I am going to reflect publicly here. I do this for at...

Is “changing the world” part of the power game?

A few weeks ago I listened to a fascinating interview TWOTP had with Jean Vanier. In the introduction they ask him about the small communities he started all over the world and if he thought they brought about change in the larger story. His answer has been with me...

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Labels In February of 2012 I celebrated fourteen years of marriage with my best friend Lollie, in a hospital. We organised for our children to stay with their grandparents and planned to spend a few days relaxing, eating and doing those things people do when they...

Lent is an angiogram

On the Thursday after Ash Wednesday 2012 I was in an Intensive Care Unit at the Saint Augustine hospital in Durban. I waited for test results that would determine whether I would need another heart surgery. It was like being in a wilderness of sorts. Earlier in the...

Learning from Liam

A few weeks our family hung out at Wimpy (for our non South African friends Wimpy is a fast food restaurant). We like going to Wimpy because the kids love playing in the tunnels. At some Wimpy’s they have child minders looking after the children. They have their...