I dare say to you that the drudgery, the boredom and the tiredness that constantly seems to be your lot is for a reason. Yes, we may argue back and forth on the details, split hairs over the ‘uniqueness’ of your peculiar circumstance, how you have tried and failed, how resources are not available, how people you relied on have disappointed you or how you have struggled so hard and yet have not found meaning, …
In wanting to have a successful marriage, I wanted to “crack” the “marriage code”, understand what makes it tick, ask the hard questions and get answers. Now, I am still on this journey, learning truckloads of stuff as I go, but I will like to share with you some lessons learnt on my journey. First of all, I realized early on that most marriages are filled with activities that are “meant to be done” – …
As my understanding of life in God grows, I realise that certain elements of life that we often put into silos are not designed to be that way. There is no “spiritual life” separate from a “physical life”, or “worship” separate from what we refer to as day-to-day activities. Actually, the more we realised that all things are connected, we are able to achieve significant synergies to enable us get more out of this brief …
Has it ever clicked in your mind that you can look without seeing and vice versa, or that you can hear without listening, and vice versa? You can be with someone and yet your mind is far away, limiting your ability to get the best out of your time with that person- just like being “intimate” with your spouse and at the same time, thinking about bills, or even worse, someone else. At that moment, …
The alarm bell rings and you jump out of bed, still groggy from getting to bed late the night before. You reach for a Bible to skim with heavy eyes over a passage of scripture, mumbling sleepy and meaningless words of prayer, passing seamlessly into a place of joy, surrounded by laughing friends with a rainbow-like sun painting everything around you an interesting shade of gold, you hear the voice of your spouse saying to …
