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The Thing About Positivity

Many people who know me think that I am a bubble of joy all the time – a lot like Joy in Inside Out actually – and that I never have a bad day because of my sunny disposition. What many don’t realise is that I am sometimes very sad, feel lonely, and life can sometimes be very hard and unfair. Funnily enough, when my boys were tiny, I bumped into an old teacher of mine who told me that a few teachers in the staffroom had once voted me “most likely to commit suicide”. Yes, I kn...

Networking: A Key Business Tool

Networking is a key skill in business, especially in Durban. It is not what you know but whom you know. A few years ago, I was at a networking event chatting to a very nervous person who was literally looking at the door plotting the quickest escape route, I have a radar for picking up these people and because I am also a natural encourager I have this huge need to go make them feel better. It then dawned on me that not everyone enjoyed networking like me and it came as such a surprise. I also r...

Do you know where you are?

Unless you know where you are, you won’t know which direction you should go.As with any journey, there needs to be a place to start.  To find your bearings you need to know exactly where you are right now.  Most of us never take the time to think about this.  At some point we get into the routine of life, and before we even know it, it has become a rut.Definition of a rut:  A grave with the sides kicked out.Life is made for living and experiencing. We are supposed to feel a...

The Sense of Entitlement.

I had been watching the news in South Africa with a heavy heart and it has brought this word into my focus: Entitlement. In itself it is not a bad word and as children of the Most High God we are entitled to some pretty amazing stuff; but the sense of entitlement I see around me – especially, but not limited to, the younger generation – really troubles me.So when does our sense of entitlement start overreaching the mark? Many Christians live beneath what they are entitled to. What I mea...

Creating Margins for a full life

The best of me requires time for all of me.  Each facet of my life requires attention and resourcefulness. I cannot expect to be whole if I sacrifice one part of who I am for another.  Mike Ivey  At the beginning of this year, our Pastor preached a sermon about creating Margins in our life and it has been one of my key objectives this year.  I am inclined to throw myself into my work with passion and purpose and can often be very unbalanced.  So this year, I was det...

The Land in between

This is what I shared at our End of Year Breakfast for KBN, I have had so many people asking for my notes so I decided to write a blog about it.  I have left the section from my book out so it wasn’t too long.  Will maybe do a separate post for that…. The Airport. My recent trip to New Zealand had me in a few airports and on the way back, after a grueling 26 hours in transit, I arrived in Johannesburg, with swollen ankles, dry and cracked lips, thumping head,  absolutely ...

Free to be ME

I recently went on a trip to New Zealand that turned out to be more than what I expected it to be.  The occasion was celebrating my little big brothers 40th.  While I was there I thought I would connect with some of my facebook friends in New Zealand and wrote a few emails letting them know that I would be in the country and expressed an interest in connecting with them.It was an incredible trip, with some amazing God moments which are only starting to land now.  In the week since...

Don’t steal today’s Peace and Joy…

So a friend and I were chatting on Whatsapp as I was capturing those last few lazy moments in bed, like only you can on the odd Saturday morning.  She was commiserating leaving her holiday location to come home and face a week back at work.  Back to reality….  I tapped in this comment and then was stuck by it.  Very impressed with myself for coming up with it actually.  So impressed I actually posted it on Facebook tonight.  Vanity, I tell you Vanity.No actua...

So when did being ourselves become a bad thing?

I am in the very fortune position to be able to sit under the “teaching” of an exceptional man who recently took us through the process of a book that he is writing at the moment, soon to be released.  I will let you know when it is out there, not sure exactly what the name of the book will eventually be called, but it is all about The Genesis Question.  I don’t want to spoil it for you, but this question will unlock that question that got introduced to you that has insidiou...

Pruning is part of growth…

It’s been a while since I have written on my blog.  I have realised something about myself that surprised me.  When I feel uncertain I withdraw.  I don’t think I am the only one.  This is a very exciting stage in my life and there are a few changes happening, but with change, even if it is positive, it brings uncertainty.  Things, even things that are no longer fruitful or useful can still be more comfortable than facing new and even exciting new ...

The long and winding road to the Promised Land!

I am always writing as I find this is a wonderful way for me to off load when I am grappling with “stuff”. This morning as I was searching for something else for my book, I came across this little gem and it was probably written about 4 or 5 years ago. I felt the emotion of that day all over again and then the joy of looking at it from this angle and I realised what has been achieved since then. Since this little moment of vulnerability, I founded a wonderful Networking business called Kingd...

Lessons at the cliff Edge.

Since 2005 I have been on a journey of discovery and growth.  It has been the most incredible journey, it has had the makings of any great adventure.  Drama, anticipation, suspense, heartache and lots of laughs too.  It was up until then that I was living on auto pilot.  I was doing good “stuff”, staying in love with a hubby, raising a family, progressing in my job, serving in my church, but there was this growing disharmony and then life happened.&nbs...

The Mother of all Jobs!

I had the privilege of preaching a Mother’s Day sermon on my birthday this last Sunday. Thought I would share it. It was a Sunday Afternoon and I was 8 months pregnant with my first son.  Gary and I were having a Sunday afternoon snooze, when I suddenly sat up bolt straight. To which Gary bolted up too expecting me to declare “it is time!”  But instead I said “I am going to have a baby!” in absolute terror and shock, as if realising for the first time.  At...