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TRUST even when it seems the odds are against, there is God who i can fully depend upon. he’s proven in my history in creation and in His word that he is faithful. that he answers my prayers. not in small ways, not barely making it, but always beyond what i could have hoped or […]

Believing: its a relentless looking forward. a bent toward the future. a refusal to dwell on or even muse for a second on the past with regret or wishful thinking. there is more, there is more, there is more.. with every breathe there is more. as long as we are still held by gravity, there […]

“Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.” ― Walt Whitman We only live in the now. there is no other time we will be present. All we have is now. stop, breathe, feel, take it in, right here. We rush through life, like a hurricane roaring through our […]

“In ordinary life, we hardly realise that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer I tried to remember back to a time when I had nothing, and realised I’ve always been flooded with the goodness of God. Even my […]

Paradox is never far away from Christianity. It’s even evident in just the last week of Jesus’ life; the sinless man who submitted to a criminal’s death, the messiah who enraged the religious elite, the king who rode into town on a donkey. ‘Apart from me you can do nothing,’ said Jesus as that final […]

Twenty five years ago the Berlin Wall came down. With pickaxes and hammers, feet and fists, the concrete slabs that encircled West Berlin were torn down. And as the day of demolition faded into night, some called out; “if not now, then when? If not us, then who?” That same message needs to be heard […]

My room was always pretty loud and chaotic. The further I got in my teenage years, the more passionate I became about music. The more I grew to love music, the longer I spent practicing playing it. All throughout my career, aspirations were tied up in my potential as a musician, and I lived for […]

The growth of bitterness is easy to spot. The script goes like this:   Life happens. People offend us. Things don’t go to plan. So we start churning over the details. We talk about it. We lose sleep over it and we begin to grow so accustomed to living with it that we come to […]