Have you heard that something can be both a blessings and a curse? Sometimes money can be both a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that I am able to exist … purchase a house and vehicle, purchase clothing and food, tithe and help the needy. The curse is that money could easily become […]
Author: Don Kirkwood
Rejected, Dumped and Replaced
You know the story … “when things go wrong, things go wrong”. Jenny comes in from the laundry room saying the washing machines does not want to work. I go and check it out and nothing I do–whether it’s pressing buttons, changing plug points, running a lead from the kitchen, checking the main distribution board–gets […]
Delinquent
If you are one who wanted to spend time splashing in the waters down at the beaches along the Garden Route, you would likely feel hard done by because of the beach closures and the Democratic Party’s court case loss to have the beaches reopened. It does seem as though we as a nation generally […]
Spiritual Scammers
Today was one of those days you prefer would pass you by! I went online to pay the amenities and security company accounts, and what followed was frightening. I received two SMSs straight after each other. The first one was the normal SMS when one logs onto the Internet Banking Platform. The other SMS said […]
Christmas Light
We have not seen many Christmas lights up in gardens this year so far. Maybe this is because we do not travel often at night these days … or it could be due to the fact that with all the disruptions of Covid throughout most of 2020, people are showing financial fatigue and have cut […]
Small Talk
When you meet up with family and friends, what do you talk about … especially when you have not seen these people for many years? Certain things tend to be the norm when we start talking such as sports, work, studies, family, friends, weather, coronavirus, politics, economy and religion. These tend to dominate. The space […]
Corruption
Our son-in-law Roy is a wizard with electronic devices. For the past 20 plus years he has assisted me with setting up laptops, iPhones and tablets as well as various online accounts such as iCloud, One Drive and Apple ID amongst others. If there is one thing I have learnt about Roy over these years […]
Workers Are Few
I needed to purchase an item for the online ministry I am able to do. This includes the Daily Notes I write. I ordered the product from a store, and after about six weeks waiting I was informed yesterday that it was ready for collection. The way the store works is that from the moment […]
On Reconciliation
Today in South Africa we celebrate a public Holiday known as The Day of Reconciliation. The following document is abbreviated … December 16 looms large in the history of South Africa. Today in the new South African it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation between Blacks and Whites. It was first celebrated as the […]
Refusing the Call
With the Internet, smart phones, iPads, tablets, laptops and computers, most people have access to and use the free media apps and sites to keep up to date with news across the planet. This means our collection of news is no more restricted to the radio and television. I say this because I want to […]