Get Used to Different
The title is a line from The Chosen, a TV series about Jesus and his disciples, that has taken me by surprise. Many portrayals of Jesus depict him as a solemn man who walked around preaching and talking to his nondescript bunch of disciples. You couldn’t tell one from the other, only Jesus stood out from …
Love in the time of Corona
So the virus is in town, the corona virus which gives rise to the symptoms termed COVID_19 and we’re in lock down mode. The whole world is more or less in the same situation, everybody cooped up at home. I don’t know how long it will last… it’s not bad, I do my …
Who are we Glorifying?
The dawn of another year and there’s so much happening in the world, what with the bush fires in Australia, the CAA/NRC protests in India, the Trump and Iran situation; it is good that we stay updated and take an interest in world affairs, that’s probably all we can do. We …
Another year…
Another year, 2020, how fast the years roll by… the transition from 2019 to 2020 was fun enough, surrounded by family, friends and an influx of angels. I saw a paper doily angel online and since then this is what I have been making in December, an army of paper doily angels… To be placed …
Where Will They Celebrate Christmas?
There’s a beautiful song called Christmas in Heaven, where Scotty McCreery, the singer, wonders how a loved one who has passed away is celebrating Christmas. Scotty sings: Are you kneeling with shepherds before Him now? Can you reach out and touch His face? Are you part of that glorious Holy Night? I wonder what Christmas …
Musings on love, sex, society
Do not, do not, do not!The father in church intonedWhat, she thought warilyGratify the needs of the flesh, he preached.Why not, she mused, smiling at the oneSitting beside her, oblivious to the sermonIt is beautiful to love and be loved.What’s there to be scaredWhen love exists deep in your soulNo amount of denying can bring …