What pure delight! Jenny when she and her Mum were boarding with us. She brought me such pleasure and we were great buddies - I loved her chatter and noise and games and called her Boo. God delights in His children - and seeing we are His children, "The Lord your God...

Yesterday on a Zoom meeting with Australia I was surprised how difficult talking about my own grief still is - still a giant of a sort. The horror of another shooting of children - this time in Texas - is another giant thing tearing me apart. As is the pulverising of...

Thy continues to share her grief.

We visit "Ons Huisie" often at Blouwbergstrand. And I never fail to notice the doggie bar. I think what gets to me is the kindness behind it. While the humans are fed delicious fish and chips and other things the hot and panting dogs can have a drink before they lie...

Just think all over the world a "cloud of witnesses" are steadily on their way towards the Light. Oh I know the journey's one of twists and turns, bumps and falls but it is essentially a journey from A to B. We are all going home and we can't be lost on the way. He is...

"Today Shirley, you are doing exactly what the little video clip reveals - full of indescribable joy, you are in heaven praising God. Today eight years ago Jesus wrapped His arms around you in welcome into heaven. Meanwhile, since you wanted your story told as one...

So many beautiful things! Do you also marvel, as you look at Instagram, at how many times we post what we see of His creation? We are 'programmed' to appreciate what He has made. Then we are 'programmed to appreciate God? Have a God-shaped hole which only He can fill?...

Covid and lockdown may have put relationships under very real strain but - admit it - for us they are always quite a challenge. Jesus really nailed it for us when He summarized the Ten Commandments into only two: We are to love God with everything we've got and...

Shirley at the launch of Nick's new charity. At the end of her life she said, "We've just had Easter and it has been so special to me." I remember the days when she kept saying, "I've never been happy." In the last weeks of her life she said, "I'm so happy, I'm so...