When last did you play with a child? I mean really let your sensible, careful, sometimes anxious, adult self, get drawn into their world, fuelled by wild imagination and the sense that anything is possible? How did it feel? How did it leave you feeling? I have a vivid memory of children at play that …
Hope in the Wilderness 2019 has started with a bang. School went back into session early this year, elections are coming up in May, and multiple state-capture and corruption commissions illustrate daily the multiplicity of ways in which we are struggling as a country to rid ourselves of our past, current and ongoing injustices. At times looking …
Linda Martindale asked some of her colleagues what helps them keep hope alive, and shares some of her own thoughts on how she has kept hope alive in her life, and when she had none, how others did it for her. ‘It’s a cruel, crazy beautiful world,” sang Johnny Clegg, a good summary from …
Sinoxolo (“we are at peace”) is a programme run by The Warehouse for local churches that helps participants better understand and manage themselves and support others in their experience of loss, grief and continuous trauma. The course has had very positive results, not only in people handling their situations, but also in how God has …
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The epiphany of hope that draws the untamed imagination of a place called home also makes the heart yearn with rhythmic panting the expressions of unfathomable shades of love that transcend human emotionalism. Of course, it takes a degree of revelation to know what to do with hope. Even more so it takes a deeper …