Tsonga Princess

The taxi driver is always wrong? Today on my way to work, I witnessed what I thought was one of the most profound moments in taxi driver history. So I was waiting a for a taxi to take me on my last journey before getting to work, I see an almost empty taxi on the far right of the road, so I don’t even try to flag it down because it means it is not gaping to take passengers. However to my disbelief this guy swerves into the far left lane – while the robot is red might I add – in front of other cars. When the robot turns green and the taxi come to a halt in front of me. Once I was inside I could here what was the ending of an argument between the driver and one of the passengers. The passenger was angry that the taxi driver had dangerously cut before other cars, he went on to tell him that driving like that was not only dangerous to him but to all the other people on the road. I chuckled a bit because I thought this guy was flagging a dead horse – most taxi drivers (and some pas...

 Would be Housewife... I complain a lot, yes I am honest enough to know that complaining is one of the many things I do well in life. I use public transport to get to work - best believe that from getting off the train to getting on the taxi that will eventually take me to work I would have at least found five different things to complain bout. The music is too loud in the taxi, the passengers on the bus thinking they own the space, the person next to me is chewing so loud I can’t even here myself think.... the list does go on but I don't want to encourage my inner complaint. So one day as I was going on my very famous complaint route, I turned to one of my colleagues and say to her - "You know my life would be so much easier if I was a housewife'. She stops, turns and looks at me, with a rather puzzled look on her face and asks - 'Why'. I then told her: ‘That life would be easier for me if all I did was stay home and bake stuff”. Now before all the aw...

Getting Older with Grace... Lately I have been contemplating a lot of things in life. Whether I made the right choice in pursuing my career rather than a boy, if I should have been putting up the right image to attract what is perceived to be the 'right' guy at the 'right' time or whether I should have been climbing the social ladder rather than the work ladder. My family has gotten into that state where almost every conversation ends with - so who is he, is there a he, will you be getting married soon? Before these questions used to bother me because they used to make me wonder if I was doing the right thing in life, if being ambitious was really the route  for me. Now their questions amuse me more than than they annoy me. Am I single? Yes. By choice? Yes. Am I waiting for prince charming to come sweep me off my feet? Maybe. Will I wait to be a pretty trophy wife? No. I am happy with the choices I have made so far, even if they people around watch and question, ...

DEATH Death...the one thing that is a guarantee besides the return of Christ. We talk about it, we preach about it, we know it's an eventuality we're all going to face but it never gets easier.  To say goodbye to the people we love, not to speak to them, never to laugh or share our sorrows with. Death the ending of one life to give birth to eternity with our Father. Death is not easy but for a glimpse of eternity with God, it is worth the pain of leaving behind ones loved ones. Isaiah 25:1-12 NIV Lord , you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.   You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners’ stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.   Therefore strong peoples will honor you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you.   You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the...

We have to start somewhere: The start of a new year is always a wonderful thing. This means that we have been blessed with one more to do all the things that we were unable (or unwilling) to do the year before. It is also a year for reflection, where you look back at how far you have come and how far you want to go. This time of reflection can revel many things. It could reveal all the traits we did not even know we had, all the good and…some of the bad stuff as well. As I write this I am in that time of reflection looking at all the choices I made, the things I think I did good and the things I wish I could erase in its entirety. During this time of reflection I have come to learn two things: One, sometimes we need an inside look – not a depressing look – but sometimes I think we need to be honest with ourselves about who we are, what we want and what we believe. The second thing is: learning to deal with what we find once we take at honest look inside ...

The pain won't last forever There are times when we go through things and we believe that the pain we feel at that time will be with us forever. We fail to look beyond the things that we feel in that moment. I have moments like that when I think that everything is going so wrong that I fail to see beyond my currant situation. But as usual the people close to me continue to remind me that pain I feel is only momentary. That the things I feel now will pass, the pain I feel will go away. its never easy to acknowledge when your flaws when your in a funk but at times you need to look beyond your circumstances in order to find a better way to deal with your current pain. Like I said in the begging there are days when I want to wallow into a black hole and forget everything outside my current moment. I just wanted to be a reminder that even the Bible says that pain is momentary. We need to learn to look beyond our current situation. The pain you feel today is only momentary it wil...

Wishing upon a star Do you remember when you were younger and you would wish for something with all your might? And when it didn’t happen, you would sulk for days? I remember those days (because I still do that sometimes). It’s amazing how things have not changed since that time. I still pray and wish for certain things to happen and boy oh boy do I get in a mood when things don’t necessarily go my way – just ask my parents. Recently I have come to the realization that sometimes the things we wish for might not necessarily be what is good for us. Now don’t get me wrong I still find myself daydreaming about what could be and wishing for what might be. I have just learnt to not let it consume me as it used to. There are times in life – I have realized – where we need to say thank you for the things we did not get rather than drag our feet and sulk for days for the things we wish would come our way. Take delight in this passage… Proverbs...