my highway to zion

Tonight is Penny's senior prom!! What a beautiful girl she has become.  Simon, penny and I Lindsay, LJ and Penny Penny and her mother Penny, her brother Ponty, and her mother Carmen Penny and her brother Tino's family Their own mirror! ;-) Penny and her date, sweet Kyle. Have fun girl! We love you. Xx

Things really heated up in Cape Town at the start of this year.   Fires ripped through mountain ranges across the Cape Peninsula.   Cape Town residents were on high alert for more than a week.   Ashley and I watched fires rage through the night from our bedroom window.   One morning our suburb was engulfed in a thick fog of smoke with ash reigning from the sky.   Through the smoke and ash pierced a blood red sun.   Had we not known better, we would have thought we were at the edge of an erupting volcano. Due to the grace of God and the outstanding work of local firemen and volunteers, very few lives and homes perished in the fires.   Ashley and I got an opportunity to put out a fire of two on one of our local paths.   The burning undergrowth had reignited the flora above and we were in the right place at the right time to quench it.   I have merged two photos taken from the same position to illustrate the extent of...

This Easter, I felt impacted by the life of John the disciple.   It has led me to read his book of 1 John with a new level of awe, as I understand him to see himself as “the disciple whom Jesus loved”.   Working in the field of addiction, people identify themselves by their past: “Hi, I’m Lindeka and I am an alcoholic” or “Hi, my name is Carl and Im an addict”.   John the disciple revolutionizes the identity crisis phenomenon with “Hi, I am John, and I am loved.”   I long to identify myself by the love of Christ, rather than my issues. 1 John 5: 2-5 says: 2  This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3  In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4  for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5  Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who be...