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“Don’t get attached”
“Don’t get attached”, they say. “Keep your emotional boundaries”, they say. “You will get hurt”, they say. “Don’t get taken advantage of’, they say.
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September 1, 2024
The greatest of these is love.
For eleven months after my mother was diagnosed with cancer, I believed for her healing. I prayed, I declared, I prophesied. We travelled the world to places where people were healed, either supernaturally or through medical intervention. We recorded her test results, harrowing as they were, so that one day, when she was healed, we’d have proof that she was ever sick at all.
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September 14, 2023
Grief Hovers Within
Grief hovers within, moving like a continual presence. The shape of loss, a vacuum absorbing all else. Lost dreams, lost people, Lost loves, lost hope.
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September 12, 2023
Riptide
Grief is a riptide. When they die, you feel as if you did too. Like the churn of an angry wave about to break on land. Suspended for a moment with the force of rage behind you, But a moment, is all you have. thrown against the sand in a winding, bruising, slam.
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September 12, 2023
Pilgrimage for my father
I take the journey to where I knew you best, The best you. Sweet memories flicker in between fractures of brokenness. Johannesburg Sterlizia’. Gorgeous, orange diving bird of paradise. Red sand and rocks. Familiar yet foreign.
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September 12, 2023
Brave, Safe and Free
Fighting the cravings, braving the turkey, Escaping memories, the past is murky. Friends hold hands, pray through fear, Remind in the pain, that God’s still here. Shivering, sleeping, waking, choking, Covered in sweat the bed is soaking.
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September 12, 2023
if the world were a plateau
if the world were a plateau how boring that would be, no mountains, no oceans, no natural majesty.
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September 12, 2023
Grief and loss – Part 2
Grief and Loss - Part 2 Practical Grieving I would like to share with you some practical ways that enabled me to process loss, grief and my own physiological dysfunction caused by traumatic stress. For the full context of this…
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August 25, 2023
Grief and loss – Part 1
Grief and Loss – Part 1 2020: Some things I’ve learned about processing loss As the death toll rises globally due to COVID and those left behind begin to walk through the journey of grief, I wanted to share some…
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August 25, 2023
10 years without her
10 years without her As we move toward Christmas and New Year, like others I find myself reflecting. It’s been a brutal two years in so many ways for the world, and for me personally. Yet this year also brought…
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August 25, 2023