Life Lessons

When Waiting Seems Endless- My Advice

When well-meaning people give advice such as “do not be in a hurry to marry” or “be patient, you will eventually have your own kids ” or “if you just keep working hard, you will eventually make lots of money”, such advice sound like the best thing to say to young people who look forward to a great life. However, when the people being addressed are older, people who have had unfulfilled expectations or who by reason of age alone, have a cause to worry and hurry, it does not sound like the perfect advice. For such people, there is

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God has not Forgotten you

I was watching a movie called Paddington 2. In the movie, Paddington (a bear) was wrongly convicted and put in prison. He stayed with the Brown family before the unfortunate incident and they loved him so much and believed that he did not commit the crime. While in prison, he made new friends who advised him to join them in plotting an escape from prison in order to find the real criminal and thus prove his innocence. Their argument was that the Brown family would abandon him in prison, as their own families had. He declined the offer and was

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Lessons from my Hunger Story

My husband and I like to have date nights as often as possible. Date nights should not be an occasional thing, they should occur regularly because we need to do the things that got us here, to sustain where we are. I feel like I just said a whole lot in that short phrase. Phew! On this particular day in the picture below, I did something that most people are familiar with and that is what this post is about. What did I do? It was a Sunday and I had lunch quite early, it was more or less what

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Copy Cat

The lessons in this narrative, are a combination of the danger of being a copycat and the power of leadership. This story here, happened some weeks ago. I had just returned from picking my kids up from school and I gave lolipop to each of them. I asked the older one to pull off something she was putting on, so she stuck the stick end of the lolipop in her teeth, just to make it easier to remove the stuff. My younger child had been licking the right side of the lolipop, but as soon as he saw his sister,

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