"Gosh, you're so uptight. This is probably why your mom left you and your dad and stepmom were more than willing to leave you while they went on holiday with their real family." Those were the words said to 12 year old me by one of my then best friends after she had held me [...]
Tag: Love
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 [...]
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 [...]