M. Scott Peck in ‘The Road Less Travelled’ begins with these three words – ‘Life is difficult.’ Malcolm Fraser, a past Prime Minister, made this saying famous – ‘ Life wasn’t meant to be easy.’ He was quoting from George Bernard Shaw’s play ‘Back to Methuselah’ in which he wrote – ‘Life wasn’t meant to […]
Year: 2013
Who do you think you are?
In aspiring to create a legacy we need to look at who we are now. Just as at the end of the financial year we calculate our assets register, we can also remind ourselves of who we are in Christ. If we confess with our mouth and believe in our heart that Jesus is the […]
Create a legacy
‘ … I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him.’ Deuteronomy 30:19-20. Moses was addressing the nation of Israel as they waited on […]
Fill the gap wisely
‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb and naked I will depart’. Job 1:21 We all begin life the same and we all die returning to dust the same. No gender, race, status, nationality or creed dissolves this absolute that we are all equal at the beginning and at the end. In the beginning, as […]
What do you have in your life?
I recently bought a new vacuum cleaner and was bemused when the sales person confidently announced that this new cleaner ‘will see you through.’ Did he see me as his Grandma, or did he assume I was living in a small apartment and wouldn’t need to do much vacuuming? Did he know I was lazy […]