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Dear Dad

Christmas is a truly special time for my family. For us celebrating the birth of Christ is paramount to our faith and allows us a special time to reflect on all our many blessings. Christmas is also usually our family time when we roll out our traditions of baking and decorating cookies and opening one present at midnight on Christmas Eve and breakfast with the entire family at our home on…

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Being authentic

I haven’t written for a while. It certainly was not because I couldn’t think of what to write but there was this overwhelming desire to ensure that whatever I conveyed was polished and professional and dare I say, inspirational. In fact what I was feeling was disjointed and uncertain and expectant. And then today it hit me that we all know that we’re not perfect and that God is continually…

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Staying the course

Everything worth having is worth waiting for… We have grown up hearing that old adage and been taught to appreciate deferred gratification. But it isn’t always easy to stay the course while waiting for a positive outcome in life. It then begs the question- would it be as precious if it came all too easily? Would we value our education or relationships or jobs if we could just snap our fingers and…

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Happiness

What brings you the greatest happiness? One of my pleasures is cooking a dish and watching my family devour it with extreme happiness. It’s funny how much joy can be derived from simple things! This pandemic has made me reflect on how easy it could be to get bogged down with the minutiae of life. When your routines revolve around work and home only it could get sad, lonely even. But on the flip…

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When things don’t go as planned

Life is like that. Not everything we plan goes off without a hitch. The beauty must be in how we react while things are going awry or how we bounce back after the fact. When you’re in the midst of it all though thoughts of failures and “I should have seen this coming” and why tend to flood our minds. I have had my share of those occasions but one in particular spanned 20 years and had three…

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Anxious for nothing...

Anxious for nothing…

Having anxiety is most probably the opposite of having faith and yet so much easier to lapse into. Anxiety is so dangerous that even when all is well, there are times when just wondering what you forgot to worry about makes you feel anxious 😢 My devotions recently, in the midst of a worldwide pandemic and after some restless nights, have been focused on what the Word of God promises when we…

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Virtually Christmas

Christmas is a truly special time for me and my family. For us celebrating the birth of Christ is paramount to our faith and allows us a special time to reflect on all our many blessings. This year has been a unique one for all of us, even if we had all our loved ones with us. We were not free to visit family and friends as we would traditionally and Whatsapp video, Zoom, Skype and Microsoft…

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Working...

Working…

I think we are always working at something. Maybe it’s getting in shape or being a better friend or parent or on a relationship or a profession or studies. We are constantly working with multiple moving targets simultaneously juggling several balls often times in different timezones and countries. For most of my adult life I have been a working mother. I thought there was this magic equation…

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I fell in love...

I fell in love…

It was a day like no other,

One I’ll never forget,

Just like in the movies,

Lightening flashed and my knees trembled.

Had hoped for a choir singing,

Sounded more like sirens instead.

Night turned into morning,

And the sunshine lit the sky

On the day I truly fell hard…

Absolutely and completely in love,

When my first born arrived.

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Force ripe

In the Caribbean we have a saying that when a fruit turns from green to yellow just purely based on the sun beating down upon it, and n0t because it has fully matured, that the fruit is “force ripe”. We also use the same term to describe young ladies, in particular, who seemingly mature too quickly. By the time I was 24, by some standards, I could probably have been deemed as the dictionary…

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When we least expect it...

When we least expect it…

I remember walking to the bus stop about a day or two after arriving in London not quite sure what my day or week or month would hold but the nippy autumn weather gripped me with a feeling of expectation. It felt like I could finally stop and inhale after running on pure adrenalin for weeks leading up to my move. I wanted to soak in every new feature and sensation around me.

My first stop was…

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Bright eyes

Arriving in a foreign country for the first time you are usually struck by the pace at which people move and all seem to know just where they’re going. You try to soak all the newness in but everyone else has a memo you never got requiring top speed movement.

Stepping off that plane onto UK soil for the first time, I recognised that people interactions were often as cold as the air I suddenly…

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Mustard seeds...

Mustard seeds…

Not many people know that the day before I moved from the Caribbean to the UK I didn’t have a guaranteed flight nor accommodation across the “pond”. What I did have was big dreams, huge plans and an overwhelming feeling of bravery.

One of my aunts, Carolyn (now with the Lord) worked for BWIA, a Caribbean airline, back in the 90s. As part of her employee package she would get airline tickets…

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L-O-V-E

1 Cor 13: 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends…

God’s Word gives us the template for love and yet we often…

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Things we rarely admit

Things we rarely admit

As a teenager I struggled to find an avenue that allowed me to honestly share my feelings. There was a fear, rational or irrational, of being judged. Did other people wonder about how they showed up to others and what made some people more popular than others and how is it that all adults seem perfect?

I totally admired my friend Dee. She had a no-nonsense, take no prisoners approach to life…

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Learning to let go and let God

Learning to let go and let God

I am not sure if anyone can relate, but for most of my adult life, even as a believer, I have operated like I needed to “help” God. There were so many times when I acted first and consulted God after the fact. Usually when things were looking pretty grim.

I figured that God gave us wisdom so He must expect us to use it. And He does, however, He also expects us to put Him first in all we do. As…

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Chapters in our life

Chapters in our life

When I was younger I dreamed of becoming a lawyer. It was a profession that fascinated and intrigued me. I would find myself writing about my dream to do law and I even pursued A’Level History and English Literature with great passion to that end.

By my second year of A’Levels I had gotten so good at writing that I landed a part-time job at a local newspaper as a Features Reporter. Even then I…