We have two chapters left in Daniel and once again I’ll be breaking away from the Book for a few weeks with the “Easter Weekend” in sight. For a few days before getting in the reality of Bloody Friday and Resurrection Sunday I would like to do a few Daily Notes on the Beatitudes in […]
We receive visits from people and we visit people for different reasons. It might be a friendly family type visit or one that might be unpleasant. The ingredients of most visits are more or less known beforehand … yet sometimes you can’t place why the person is visiting you. The Divine Visitor poses a question […]
In Britain, although there are no obligatory codes of behavior when meeting the Queen or a member of the Royal Family, many people wish to observe the traditional forms. For men this is a neck bow (from the head only) whilst women do a small curtsy. Other people prefer simply to shake hands in the usual […]
Hindsight is perfect sight. I had some people work at our home yesterday. Halfway through their labor I was saying to myself: “If only I had known.” Taking that saying through to the end it means … “If only I had known I would not have!” There is one place in life where we cannot […]
When the principal of a school hears a rowdy grade 8 class misbehaving because the teacher is absent or away, he will send a few prefects to that class to deal with them. Grade 8 learners are faced with grade 12 prefects. Rather daunting and scary. One can literally picture the grade 8’s trembling with […]
Do you like being alone? There are times I like “alone time” … when walking, working in the garden and doing house maintenance. But generally I don’t like being alone. I enjoy having someone around me, not necessary to talk or to do some activity together … rather just to have someone around. Yet there […]
Have you ever had an unexpected visit? You know the one that is inconvenient, untimely and completely out of place. Jenny and I married on the Saturday. My brother-in-law who was one of my best-men decided we needed to go on honeymoon. Although this was unplanned due to a lack of cash, we managed to […]
For today, I’m breaking away from “Dare to be a Daniel” because today, in South Africa we have a public holiday known as Human Rights Day. Human Rights Day in South Africa is historically linked with 21 March 1960, and the events of Sharpeville. On that day 69 people died and 180 were wounded when […]
Dates are important. Most of us know what it is like when a loved one or close friend forgets our birthday day or wedding anniversary because these, to us are important dates. Some people do and others don’t celebrate Christmas. That’s fine because we do not know on which day and month the Lord Jesus […]
At the time of writing, Russia is pursuing an unrelenting war of aggression against the Ukraine. Depending on which political analysist you listen to, the reasons and spins of this war vary significantly. Where that region of the world have experienced countless wars, the picture is almost like one of the military machines from king […]