Winning the prize (PSI Young Writers Best of 2018)
Lasting memories often have the ability to stick in our minds beyond what we can foresee, especially when we begin to think about the future and what our most memorable moments might be as we grow older..
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Why fireworks are coloured?
It is New Year’s Eve - the nation sees in the New Year 12.00am the 1 January 2019 with fireworks – kind of - where we live at Tweed Heads / Coolangatta we get the 12.00am fireworks at the Jack Evans Boat Harbour NSW daylight saving time, followed by the Qld 12.00am a fireworks one hour later. One side of the street is New South Wales, the other side Queensland.
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Two-state solution: no solution at all (PSI Young Writers Best of 2018)
Talks regarding the two-state solution are hyping up daily.
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Sex is God’s idea (PSI Young Writers Best of 2018)
I ordered my coffee and made myself comfortable in the corner of the café ready to read what I had been handed.
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Perspective (PSI Young Writers Best of 2018)
Ah, perspective. Eleven letters - just one word - yet it houses the power to change your life in an instant.
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“Going home in my mind”
All over the world businesses closed down, shop owners locked up and farmers hung up their hats for THE holiday season.
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Joy Defined, Joy Secured
Galatians chapter 5, verses 22-23, where we find the Fruits of the Spirit, uses the Greek word χαρά (“chara”) for ‘joy’, which translates almost directly in the Hebrew. It has the same root as ‘Christ’ in χαίρω (“chairos”).
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Endings and new beginnings
Endings and new beginnings are uniquely ours to celebrate and to grieve.
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Ctrl-Alt-Del: Rebooting Life
In 1981, David Bradley was part of a team building IBM's new personal computer. Back in the days, programmers had to manually restart the entire system whenever the computer encountered a coding glitch.
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Planning for the future
Before I came to the Lord Jesus Christ in 2016, I had felt for a long time that things would change in the world. This change I felt would be chaotic and extreme, and I was having dreams of natural disasters such as large tsunamis striking coastlands.
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The Uncertainties of a New Year
After four years of being a stay-at-home mum with my two boys, I’m once again heading back to university in 2019… or so I thought. Things don’t always go as planned. Life is full of unexpected roadblocks and detours.
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Hong Kong Christians wear black to protest China church closures
Christians in Hong Kong are coming to church dressed all in black as a protest against mainland China's crackdown on prominent congregations.