Author Archives: donalddeanchambers

I woke up early Republic Day (Trinidad and Tobago), not before Mother Sun, but early enough before her warmth blanketed the land.  I took a chair and settled in my garden of Eden, inspired to do a Visio Divina. I can hear my readers asking, “What’s a Visio Divina?”  It’s translated as “divine seeing”.  It’sContinue reading “Tension between the Old and New”

I conversed with a friend recently – an honest, frank and open tête-à-tête. He expressed appreciation for my blogs. They helped him to navigate life’s challenges and nourished his spiritual life. He also remarked on the shift he noticed in my writing style between August and September. The July and August blogs seemed relaxed, creative,Continue reading “Changes”

Today’s physiotherapy session to strengthen my right knee muscles triggers this blog on DIALECTICAL TENSION. My right knee is now weak. I remember the days of its strength. A time of strength, now a time of weakness. The Ecclesiastes writer captures best the dialectical tensions of human living and creation (3:1-8): A time for. .Continue reading “Dialectic Tension”

Not long ago, I read that the cells of our body are replaced by new cells every seven years.  Immediately, I imagine what the body would look like without the replacing of old cells with new cells – stiff like a corpse.  I think of the old cells of our. . . . . .Continue reading “New Cells”

There are two worlds. So, I think! Dark and Light. Inside the cave and outside the cave. The cave – dark, dingy, deep, and depressing Our emotional world. We escape to the cave.  It’s secure. Safe from a brutal world. So, we think! We hide in its darkness.  Why?  Life is hard, brutal, disappointing. There’sContinue reading “Darkness and Light”

I arise early at dawn to fulfil my appointment with a moment of awe and wonder of nature. Record my dreams. Exit my bedroom door with pyjamas as my costume. I thought I had risen before Mother Sun. But she beat me. She’s already radiantly dressed. Too radiant for me. Her stunning rays occupying myContinue reading “Reflection Seven -Moment of Awe and Wonder”

Like a fertile, soft, and loose soil, a relaxed human body, easily and freely absorbs the beauty of life and the beauty of relationships that flows over its surface. At the end of a week, the end of a month, the end of a project, the end of phase of life, we become like hardenedContinue reading “Relaxation – The Seventh Day Gift from God”

Watching a Facebook post, my eyes stream with tears. A nineteen-year-old African American woman appears to sing before the audition judges on American Idol. Her physical appearance? Unsuitable, in the eyes of the entertainment industry, for the craft. She’s heavy set, out of shape, wearing a sky-blue jumper suit suffocating a white T-shirt, and aContinue reading “Divine Crack”

I woke early, before the direct rays of the sun kissed my garden. I sat on the steps of the kitchen door, absorbing the early morning activities of the garden – small and medium-size iguana lizards moving slow like molasses in winter, birds behaving like persons with attention deficit disorder, bees flying gracefully making pitContinue reading “Caribbean Garden of Eden”

At the end of a 20 km bike ride, I lay flat out on my back on the boardwalk of the Chaguaramas beach, staring intently at the dusk sky. I allowed my thoughts freedom to roam.  First thought: I reminisced on my youthful days of vigorous exercises that I have now abandoned. Then my thoughtsContinue reading “Chapters of Life”