i have recently been collating some of my archived blogs on various aspects of relationship and so here are a bunch of different thorts and ideas related to DATING largely by me but also from a friend or two of mine - hope they give you a fresh and inspiring picture of some different aspects when it comes to DATING: i kissed dating, part number one thing Dating Q & A: where have all the [...]
dear nigerian widow firstly, thank you. your mail came as a huge surprise to me. i really appreciated you writing the entire correspondence in caps as my eyesight is not what it used to be. having it all condensed together in one run-one-line paragraph saved me a lot of time while conveying the urgency of your news and the need for me to act quickly on it. your husband [what was his name again?] and [...]
Ambition: the dark side, the light side Dalene Reyburn I suffer from various Double-Edged Personality-Strength disorders. If you’re human you probably do too. ‘Cause your greatest strength is always what most quickly becomes your greatest weakness. For now, I’ll just ‘fess up to one. I have Ambition, which has led to a secondary infection known as Competitiveness. There are a number of different strains of the Ambition Virus, so it’s important that I clarify. I’m [...]
if you are a single person, then embrace that, completely. hope to be married if that is your dream, but be absolutely content with where you are and living in it, til the opportunity arises. don’t live where you’re not. if you are a married person, then embrace that, completely. be content with what you have, while always striving for more. if you are not constantly working at your marriage, then you may soon discover [...]
My Strength as a Weakness If you were asked to define the word sympathy, you would probably say it's the act of feeling sorry for someone. You have heard of something bad or sad happening in someone elses life and acknowledge that it is in actual fact bad or sad and you feel for the person going through that situation, and you would probably be right... What if you were asked to define empathy? Hmmm, [...]
[Sueihn was our housemate at the Simple Way - she has been an absolute pleasure to live with and it has been incredible to watch her connect with people and especially children on the block as well as with churches and organisations in the area - i tag teamed with her on Mondays to share lemonade with the people in the food lines as well as talk to and pray with them - i am [...]
Too Sensitive? Is it possible to be too sensitive? For most of my growing up years, I was told that I was. It was usually after a fight with my mom, or after telling her about something a teacher or a friend said at school that mom was quick to say "are you sure you aren't being too sensitive?" I hated it then just as much as I hate it now. It caused me a [...]
the other day i was listening to one of my friends share some of their story with a group of people - four of our friends were speaking on the topic of serving God [and people] with our Time, our Talents [skills, giftings] and our Treasures [money, things] with each person dealing with a specific one of them. as i listened to Lara [who is, among other things, a mom, a wife, a daughter, a [...]
i really don't like this frank sinatra classic, but i had to share this version of it and you have to give it a few seconds when suddenly what seems like a pretty asian girl singing at a post wedding celebration becomes the asian version of a very excited colonel sanders from KFC playing the drums in shall we say a unique and fully invested way... i sense a lot of LOLing and ROFLing is [...]
this is a short psalm with one of the most powerful endings... in the middle of what is clearly a lonely, worrying, desolate time, still the psalmist realises and remembers where his hope lies and that is with God and so he pleads his case, ending with: 'Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.' [vs.5] [...]