Blessing Around

If you've been using social media for at least five years now, do you still remember your earlier photos and posts. I can think of a time when I was sixteen years old, and everyone was into filters and using augmented reality. Each time I look back on those photos at times, I almost gag at what was once so trendy online amongst my peers. It makes me want to wince, when I think about the faces I'd make in photos back then. What makes me so embarrassed by what seemed so cool? Often, I can get triggered to cringe at very unexpected moments. I could be washing dishes, or commuting home, then all of a sudden, I remember something I did whilst I was in primary school. It makes me wonder if there are any studies about why we hold on to embarrassing memories so well. The fact that I can remember an incident from 2015 so vividly, yet I can't remember what I had for lunch last Friday, bothers me in a way that words can not truly communicate.  There are instances, where th...

I'm sure by now you've noticed a habit that I have with most of the blog posts I've put up. Towards the end of a lot of the posts, I quote parts of the Bible. This is because I believe it to be the word of God and in its authority. I owe this all to having put my faith in Jesus Christ as my Lord and saviour, and in His death and resurrection. My coming to this decision of faith, is a story that I would like to share with you if you don't mind.  The story starts at my nativity, I was born in Zimbabwe, a country where about four fifths of the population is Christian. In my growing up, I was surrounded by Judaeo-Christian values and concepts. The values of the Bible were very much in the culture that I grew up in, as well as most of the education that I received. However, being surrounded by the culture did not equate to me being in the faith. There's a saying, "Just going to church makes you as much a Christian as going to MacDonald's makes you a ...