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"We've all been given a microphone. The real question is: Will we use it?" I just read the above quotation  here and it got me thinking about all the opportunities I have had in life and what I did with them. I have definitely had loads of opportunities, what good have I done with them? What am I presently doing with all the 'talents' God has given me? Do I spend my time looking for ways to make sure that the talents bring in a good harvest or am I continually whining about all the opportunities I think should have come my way but have not? Im living in a village which has virtually nothing that reminds one of the outside world. No roads, no schools, one clinic, no vehicles, no running water, no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no offices, no supermarkets, no markets, no electricity poles, no public transportation, no phones, no coke, no telephones, no televisions! I have been surrounded all my life by the things listed above and more but what have I done

Growing Pains!

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                                                                     There are many times I wish I could escape to my childhood or the accompanying innocence and a time of ignorant bliss about the evil that abides in abundance in the world and the duplicity of man. I want to escape to an era when I took a smile for what it was 'a smile' when I did not have to second guess what a comment meant or did not mean. When we did not hide behind masks but our faces told the exact stories they meant to tell. I like to believe that I am a believer in the inherent good in every man but there are days that it takes all I have got to continue to believe. Its difficult to believe when  trust is not only abused but there is very little left to continue to allow you to trust. I hate to carefully turn over in my mind seemingly straightforward questions and watch what answers I give because I am not sure how my words will construed. I wish for a simple life, one without innuendos and doub

Saving the World?

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When you discover you can never save the world its then you realize that you need to be saved!