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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”

We hunger to cuddle and be cuddled. We hunger to gaze upon and to be gazed upon. We hunger to touch and to be touched. We hunger to caress and to be caressed. We hunger to understand and to be understood. We hunger to listen and to be listened to. We hunger to speak andContinue reading “We Hunger”

In the ferocious ebb and flow of the waves of Macqueripe Beach, Trinidad, the spirit of hospitality and welcome was encountered and experienced. Macqueripe Beach is located in Macqueripe Bay on the north-western end of the peninsula of the island of Trinidad at the end of Tucker Valley Road. It’s a small pocket beach frequentedContinue reading “Hospitality In Action – Lessons for the Church”