Will the REAL truth please stand up?

Spiritual recovery

One day when I was feeling "down in the dumps" sitting on the back stairs of my house just crying, I didn't know what was going on, but I remember just sitting there on the top of the stairs crying my eyes out when all of a sudden I felt led to look up at the sky.

Papillon  

“Papillon” is a true story about Henri Charrière, a Frenchman framed for a murder in 1931 and then wrongly charged with a life sentence and hard labour.

One round at a time

As you may know from a few articles ago, at the beginning of 2016 I injured myself to the extent that I had to discontinue gymnastics and athletics training; two things that I was so passionate about.

A career at sea

Last month marked a considerable milestone in my career as a seafarer. After over 10 years at sea, I finally achieved my Master 1 Certificate.

Is bottle-flipping a sport?

“What is the definition of a sport?”

Rising to the challenge

I had a very complicated relationship with the word ‘challenge’. When I was younger, I was not too fond of the thought of it and I would rather hide my head under the covers than stomach the idea of being challenged.

The left and the placebo effect of self-reason

The placebo effect is a treatment used by medical practitioners and psychologists for over a hundred years.

Our Pigeons

Some time back, senior Christian Today writer Sheelagh Wegman wrote an article about pigeons which reminded me of the loft my brother and I had at my parent’s home in Hornsby, NSW.

#fomo

Cashed in your gift card yet?

Shortly after Christmas, I heard that 20 per cent of all gift cards aren’t used. Apparently, all we wanted for Christmas was … nothing.

Hope in a hopelessness situation

I never would have imagined that this is what my life in February 2021 would have been.