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Something special

Something special

I like to cook. It gives me time to think, to consider and muse about ordinary, everyday things, like making a dessert..

  • Rogue radio

    Switching the channels on the car radio recently, at a time when most families would be driving their children home from school, my daughter and I were horrified to hear a radio presenter use his platform to laugh at and mock ‘church people’ and jest, suggesting that Jesus was a homosexual with 12 good looking men following him everywhere he went.

  • We walk with anger

    It is 7pm on a weekday night when I drive to the local shopping complex to get a few groceries. The parking slot I find looks directly into an Asian supermarket and, as I lock my car and step up onto the sidewalk, I pause at the entrance to debate whether or not I should go inside for a quick browse.

  • Australian non-conformity  -  massive

    In the eyes of the mainstream journalists, Anglicans and Roman Catholics appear to be the only Christian people in Australia, and for some time. With Prime Minister Scott Morrison an unashamed Pentecostal that now too gets some broadcast air.

  • Dear Child of God

    As I sat down to write a letter to my daughter, thoughts on Freedom were bubbling away in my heart. I knew she wouldn’t be able to read it for quite some time or fully grasp the content for many years to come.

  • Would Jesus divorce you?

    It seems everyone has an opinion on how marriage should look: who it's for and how to make it last. The book of Genesis gives us the story of Adam and Eve, a picture of God's design for marriage and proof he is using marriage to work his purposes for good in all situations.

  • The necessity of morality

    There are many conclusions I imagine, one may gather from the statement above. However, let me explain it. During a meeting geared towards addressing the issue of violence among the youth in Jamaica, one person stated, “We need to reaffirm the necessity of morals”, to which the above statement was the response.

  • “Love” - a sacrifice to endure to the end

    This world is not short of romance films with fancy dinner dates, luxury hotels beside the beach and expensive trips all over the world. Yes! Not to mention the popular Disney phrase, ''And they lived happily ever after.” But I can’t help but wonder where is the love in all of this?

  • A railway Christmas treat

    My Footplate Padre book, the fourth of sixteen railway books, 'From the Driver's Seat', contains 14 railway journeys written from the viewpoint of actually driving the train.

  • What Can Still Be Learned From I Kissed Dating Goodbye Part 1

    “An Omlet is only as good as the eggs” Dr. Myles Munroe

  • The somebody question

    The words "You're nobody 'til somebody loves you" continually echo in my mind as I ponder on this phrase. It's those famous words sung by singer/actor Frank Sinatra that prompted my deliberation on what such a view actually means to me. Do they mean that I am insignificant until somebody begins to love me?

  • The first time I saw an angel

    He had an illegal gun on the right side and cocaine on the left side as he stood at the altar. At an altar? Yes, you read right. At the church altar. I led this brother with a gun and cocaine on him to Christ at an altar.