Hanging on by a fingertip

Nou ja... daar het jy dit... eers was dit die brille, nou is dit pille maar gelukkig het ek nie die Blues nie!
MD het my al verlede jaar ingesleep in die Dr De Waal proefkonyn projek... maar met die jaar se ronte was die oë groot met die neem van bloeddruk. So met kwaai dreigemente is daar 'n afspraak gemaak en vanoggend is ek by my huisdokter... laas gesien met 2005 se griepepidemie! Alles is mos opgeteken!
Na 'n bietjie luister met die steoskoop ensovoorts is die mening gegee dat die res van my darem in diensbare toestand is vir 'n jong man soos ekke, mangels is heel, paar tanne minder en bene bietjie krom, dis nou net die bloeddruk... maar daarvoor is daar mos pille!
Uiteinde van die storie is dat ek nou ook soos Amanda Strydom nou kan getuig van die Brille Pille Blues...

Ek drink my pille ek lees met brille
het nog my hande
en my eie tande
ek is kerngesond
al ruik ek soms...lont

Die lewe is lekker
ek slaap sonder wekker
ek's flink uit die vere
en dan gaan ek tekere
ek hou van n dop
en n lied in my kop

Ek het nog my voete
en ek ken die roete
weet waarheen ek gaan
in die vinnige baan
ek het my lisensie
want daar is geen grens nie

Ek het nog my stem
my stem is n lem
het nog my ore
nie so goed as tevore
my lyf word al groter maar sy pas in my motor

Ek het nog my bene
en skurwe hakskene
ek het nog my mond
en my mond soen gesond
ek het nog n brein
en die brein is getrain

Ek het nog my longe
ek het baie tonge
ek het nog my neus
ek sing soms hees my hart klop nog
sterk
en kan alles verwerk

En ek het nog my oë
en my oë sien ver
het my intuisie
want niks is meer nuus nie
en wat ek wil sê
is ek is nog hier

Die plooie word meer
maar dit gaan my nie keer
ek kan rock in my taal in enige saal
so wat ek wil sê Is ek is nog hier
Jaa.....

Gelukkig is ek nie verbied om motorfiets te ry nie... dit sou my die Blues gee!

Thursday March 4 2010 04:15 PM | Comments (2)

Wow!

WOW!!
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=38985

Tuesday July 7 2009 10:59 AM | Comments (7)

Loneliness

Some thoughts on the subject after MD asked me what I thought about it.
Firstly the word as defined;
lone·ly

)

adj. lone·li·er, lone·li·est

a. Without companions; lone.

b. Characterized by aloneness; solitary.

2. Unfrequented by people; desolate: a lonely crossroads.

a. Dejected by the awareness of being alone. See Synonyms at alone.

b. Producing such dejection: the loneliest night of the week.

loneli·ly adv.

loneli·ness n.
Quite a mouthful so I went looking for the origin and found;

alone: c.1300 contraction of O.E. all ana "all by oneself," from all "all, wholly" + an "one." Similar compounds found in Ger. (allein) and Du. (alleen).
So that did not explain much to me, I can quite happily operate all by myself but some of the similar words had me thinking, desolate was one that struck me as being a form of loneliness that many people experience. I was one of them...

Looking back on my life I remember feeling utter desolation, no family, no home, so to say nothing... (it felt like that but all considered I was pretty ok compared to a huge number on the planet that have it far worse) but then I turned to the one who is always there and always will be. Slowly, with the help of the Holy Spirit, friends and family I found my way back until one wonderful day I fully realized that one never is alone, God is always there. Once he has come into your life, filling the void that we all have, you will never feel desolate again even if you find yourself in the middle of an ocean of sand... he is always there.
The amazing thing is that when you let Him in your life he seems to make things right again... many days I feel like Job... after all was restored to him.
The verses I found regarding "lonely" in the Bible make interesting reading as well, this one especially as it relates to my journey through loneliness;

Luke 5:15-17 (New International Version)

15Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. 16But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

Jesus Heals a Paralytic

17One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there. And the power of the Lord was present for him to heal the sick.
I believe I had to go through the loneliness to get back to God and experience his power in my life again...
So my thoughts are if you are feeling lonely... read the book of Job and praise God that things are not as bad as you think they are. Like so much in life when one tackles it with prayer and positivity (in that order) you are sure to walk through the valley of isolation and abandonment and come out the other side with a new view on life.
If we fill the primal loneliness in our hearts with God's love we will never suffer the loneliness of desolation that the separation from God entails. All other loneliness pales in comparison.

Monday February 9 2009 11:01 PM | Comments (2)

Does prayer work?

Well I can say yes it does... today while scanning the accident reports of this weekend's Motocross Nationals what struck me is how few accident there were, and those that had been noted all had "No injury, fit to race." in the comments...
Before the day's events began we opened the Riders briefing with a passage and a simple prayer of thanks and a request that God have his hand of protection on all...
This is just a small way to say thank you Lord, you are true and do answer prayer, even when it comes to something as physically dangerous as MotoX racing.

Monday August 25 2008 08:05 PM | Comments (14)

Why the fear?

Got another e-mail protest to sign today. Something about the goverment wanting to change religous holliday's names or suchlike because "Christians have more holidays than other faiths".
I say we as Christians should not be worried... what did the early Christians do? In fact they did not even have religious holidays! Just because it is a demarcated day set aside as public holiday should not be the reason we Christians celebrate the day! Every day should be an Holy Day...
As a Christian I rejoice the moment I wake up and say a word of thanks as I lay my head down at the end of the day... for this is the day that the Lord gave me and I am filled with wonder that He has let me experience another day. Hopefully I was able to shine a ray of light in someone's life or touch someone with a smattering of the love God has for us.
So... I for one do not fear, for my God is a mighty fortress and earthly kingdoms may come and go but He reigns forever.

Thursday June 12 2008 08:28 PM | Comments (1)

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