Author Archives: donalddeanchambers

I plan, project, and predict.I forecast, foretell, and foreshadow.I calculate, conjecture, and contemplate.Yet, carrying the cross of the unknown…How will this plan, project or prediction evolve?How will this forecast, foretelling and foreshadowing emerge?How will this calculation, conjecture, and contemplation become real?I don’t know!What I know is that I carry the cross of the unknown.The unknownContinue reading “Cross of the Unknown”

Creation possesses a divine intentional destiny.Coral reefs provide life-giving food and safety,limestone rocks secure housing,coral sands carpeted beaches,colourful shells, a safe space for growing conch.In the inner, dark, safe space of safe shellsconchs transform and growon the warm floor of the “Shallow seas” (Baja mar) of The Bahamas.Inner spaces affirmingchallengingwelcomingescalating conchs’ journey to divine destiny.Continue reading “Safe Space for Transformation”

Surfaces, Appearances,Covers,Outsides,These are only a start.They areAttractive,Beautiful,Alluring,Enticing, Yet, unsatisfying.We adoreSurfaces,Appearances,Covers,Outsides,Only for brief moments.We are created with a restless drive to move past surfaces,to explore beyond the appearances,to flip cover pages,to journey beyond the outside.What if there’sanaemic substance beyond surfaces,appearances,covers, andoutside?Weabandon,move on,change,continue searching. Sometimes we hold fast,stay,cling,possess,hoping to find nectar in attractive flowers,but there’s none, absolutelyContinue reading “Journeying Beyond”

Vulnerability is a “clothes-less” newborn -helplessfragileat risktransparentfeeblenakedhonestinnocent weak. (Let us pray for the vulnerable unborn and the aged.)Like a flowering plant, clothing protectsenhancesaffirmscelebratespromotesvalues covers nakedness.(Let’s pray for the newborn and the sick.)Sometimes, Clothing ensues because we are afraid, afraid ofmisperceptionmisunderstandingabusemanipulationmistreatmentexclusion. (Let’s pray for abused children, migrants, and those physically or mentally challenged.)Other times,We forcefully de-clothe,Continue reading “Vulnerability”

Like shifting sand grains,sometimes violently,other times gently,lifted, swirled and depositedby waves of circumstances,life is restless, reckless, and restive.From conception,life is unstill, unstable, unpredictable,constantly moving from space to space,like nomadic desert travellersresting only at nights.There’s the shifting sand of birth,family dynamics,friendships,growth,community,nature,ageing,emotions,politics,religion,thoughts…triggering frustrations, tiredness, and vulnerability. But wait!Sand grains perennially hold hands,forming beaches upon whichbeachgoers chill,crabs makeContinue reading “Shifting Sands”

My feeble body parks motionless, except for the calm contraction and expansion of my lungs, absorbing and expelling a surreptitious element from my body, without which I am unanimated. It is pulled gently into my body, enters the mouth of my nostril, travels through fan-like bronchial channels, into the chambers of my lungs. Tiny cup-likeContinue reading “Breath of God”

Life circumstances. Life choices. Life’s surprises. Life’s twists and turns. Trigger chaos. Trigger darkness, despair, desperation. Trigger feelings, Feelings of guilt, emptiness, shame, anxiety, embarrassment. Pivot us back to the beginning, the beginning of time. “Now the earth was formless and empty, DARKNESS was over the surface of the deep.” What comes next is mystery!Continue reading “Creation and Christmas”

Three days before Christmas Day, on her 61st birthday, a domestic helper departed home at 5:30 am on public transportation en route to my parents’ house for a day’s work.   Like the Israelites losing their way on their Exodus desert journey, she failed to arrive at the agreed time. When contacted by mobile two hoursContinue reading “My Christmas Gift”