In the middle of my grade 9 year, during my school holidays, I received an sms from my dad saying he wanted to speak to me. I wasn't really stressed becuase that's generally how my dad did things. I'd always get an sms or an email, because we didn't have a very open enough relationship [...]
Unnamed
In February 1997, my mother had to take her car in for a service. She dropped it off in the morning, as always, and one of their drivers would have to take her to work. On their way, a speeding taxi skipped a red traffic light and hit the car on the passenger's side, where [...]
Twenty-Four
On the 15th of January 2015, I received an email from my father. It was the first time we had interacted, outside of the random bump-ins during the year, since I had moved out the house in December 2013. In the email, he expressed his desire to pay for my university fees for the duration of [...]
“in your own words”
Over the past few months, I’ve had this crippling feeling of being ‘left behind’. People I grew up with are completing degrees, buying cars, homes and starting families. And here I am, with nothing to show for the sacrifices I believe I had made for God. It had been almost 3 years since I had [...]
Act III
I have always believed that I don’t quite like affection. Whether giving or receiving it; I often get extremely uncomfortable when there’s hugging, cuddling or even just hand holding involved. I barely ever initiate it, but whenever I do, you know I am probably screaming in my head. In my most recent therapy session, we spent [...]
δύναμις
In Grade 8, my parents made the decision to move me to a Bible-based Christian School. All that really meant was that teachers were intentional about incorporating scripture and Jesus in to their classes, even if it meant a quick 5 minute devotional before they began the content prepared for that class. The school really [...]
Act II
December 2012: My very first youth camp. I can’t remember much about it, to be honest, except the fact that I arrived just over 2 hours before the actual meeting time. Which for a 15 year old meant that I was beyond lame, because who arrives so early for a camp? And to make matters [...]
Can/Should
At the beginning of last year, I had to come to terms with the fact that I wouldn't be working like I had planned. That God was teaching me how to rely on Him as my provider, even when I got to Sydney and was without a job for the first 2 and a half months. But I [...]
Act I
Being at an all girls school until Grade 7, made the idea of boys a rather foreign concept to me. I knew they existed, because the boy's school was literally across the bridge, but I wasn't very interested in them. My classmates were dating and hanging out with boys and I always thought "Wow," but [...]
Jericho
In ancient times, fortified cities would have had walls as high as 20 feet and as thick as 8 feet, with double or triple gates and there would be guards standing in towers high upon the walls. They would be on standby to prepare to shoot arrows, pour hot oil, or release boulders on any [...]
