Day 561 – Natural and good are different…

Day 561 – Natural and good are different…
Self-preservation is natural. That doesn’t make it good.

Day 561 – Natural and good are different…
Self-preservation is natural. That doesn’t make it good.
To miss the point that love is sacrificial, is to miss the greatest joy that love gives!
I wrote this poem in 2017. It was a reflection of what I’d learnt following an intensive nine-month group programme of the deepest level of introspection.
“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
2019 has felt like a TV dinner…
“No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a peaceful harvest of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
Taking off My Shoes is based on time I spent abroad in the British Virgin Islands. The locals called the islands ‘the university of life’ while others referred to it as ‘the school of hard knocks.’