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• THE JOURNEY IS OVER (JOURNAL 90)

  3 June, 2016

  If you were to read our journal entry for this day last year, you would read the following Today's instalment… [more]

• JOURNAL 89

  22 May, 2016

  Hi sweetheart, Sometimes I experience periods of “What if…?”. These are times when my mind seems… [more]

• JOURNAL 88

  17 May, 2016

  Hi Darling, Coming home from the hospital with a mechanical device fitted to my chest – a P.E.G. I think it… [more]

• JOURNAL 87

  13 May, 2016

  JOURNAL 87 The doctor said I can go home this morning. The surgery has had the desired effect and this new means of… [more]

• JOURNAL 86

  10 May, 2016

  JOURNAL 86 MOTHER’S DAY Hello sweetheart, I haven’t spoken to our children as to… [more]

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• The Paradox of Change (4)

  18 March, 2014

  Thinking about the relationship between pain and change, here is another "threesome" that is worth exploring

  A. CHANGE IS INEVITABLE.

  It is, you know. You and I may not want it. We may resist it. We may argue against it. But unless we create and live in a community like the Amish, there is no way that we can avoid it.

  B. CHANGE AND GROWTH ARE INSEPARABLE

  If we are committed to growth then we must come to terms with change. You can't have one without the other.

  C. CHANGE AND PAIN ARE UNAVOIDABLE.

  Because change can only happen when we are prepared to surrender one thing to be replaced by another, this means the loss of what has been part of our life, our routine i.e. what has become part of our very being. This involves the pain that comes with loss.