What's in a cup?

Conduct.  Doing what is right.  In God's eyes.  In his sight.  The niceties will fall away as soon as the bitter truth is revealed.  I don't want to be removed from God's path.  I don't want to be tempted, so I will flee from temptation.  I won't be trapped.  I fear I don't belong in your arms.  I belong in God's hands.   In another time, a time when I did not know Christ, I would have been excited.  I would have felt differently.  After all, in many ways you are a hottie, tall, dark, handsome, and you have your charms.  But what is lacking is the one thing I can no longer do without - God.  How can I go on in life without talking about God, without talking of his word and his way and his will for our lives?   That is what my life is about now, after I understood the freedom Christ gave me, and I know I cannot change people, and I know I cannot convince you.  I still see you because I have hope that God can.  I have hope that you'll be saved, that you...

I believe in love.  There will come a day when I will meet someone with whom I click. We will talk until the cows come home,  and we will laugh together.  We will both have a relationship with God that is deep and powerful. We both seek his will and follow his path. We both love the Lord. And above these vital things,  we will fall in love and find each other attractive.  This is my hope. This is my dream.  It's simple,  so why is it so hard?

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=88002 After reading this article, my mind has been broadened in regards to the genocide charge against Thabo Mbeki and the former health minister.  As much as I believe in moving forwards rather than looking back and finding blame, I also believe in accountability, and this point came across strongly in this article of 25 November 2009 of Business Day.   To claim, as president of a nation, that there is no causal link between HIV and AIDS, was, to say the least, grossly irresponsible.  Being at the top of the food chain, so to speak, with all the resources available, it is bemusing to consider making such a statement to millions of people.  It is, therefore, understandable to me to consider a charge of genocide against the health minister if not the president himself.   However, I tend to disagree that this epidemic can be compared to what happened in Germany (Nazism), since there was no evil intent to control and kill people.  Does...

Taken from Headway's Intermediate Student's Book: The Farmer And His Sons There was once an old, dying farmer who had worked hard in his vineyard all his life.  Before he died he wanted to teach his three sons how to be good farmers.  So he called them to his bedside and said, 'My boys, I have an important secret to tell you: there is a great treasure buried in the vineyard.  Promise me that you will look for it when I am dead.' The sons gave their promise and as soon as their father had died they began looking for the treasure.  They worked very hard in the hot sun and while they were working they thought about what their father had said.  They pictured boxes of cold coins, diamond necklaces, and other such things.  Soon they had dug up every inch of the vineyard but they found not a single penny.  They were very upset because they felt that all their hard work had been for nothing.   However, a few months later the grapes started to appear on the vines.  Their grapes ...

South Africa has crawled out of the recession, The Times reported on Wednesday, 25 November 2009.  The first recession South Africa experienced was in 1992, the very year my father was shot and disabled.  "It is not yet time to celebrate," said Lindani Mbunyuza of the Treasury, as though we are waiting with baited breath to pop open the champagne bottle and go on a shopping spree that not even Paris Hilton can compete with.  The South African economy is expected to recover in nine months.  What will we birth then?  Hopefully the unemployment rate of 24.5% will decrease dramatically, giving hope to its citizens and decreasing the crime rate, making the impossible possible.  The most talked about topic in South Africa at the moment is the Jackie Selebi corruption trial, an ongoing saga involving convicted drugs dealer Glenn Agliotti and former president Thabo Mbeki.  Regardless of the details, the association alone declares the government corrupt.  And another favourite topic ...

I was thinking about it today.  Why am I so addicted to cappuccinos?  Someone once said to me, it is social snobbery, to which I decided to take no offense.  And yet, if someone offered me a cup of coffee for free or a cappuccino for R15.00, I would still prefer to have a cappuccino.  There is no price too high to pay for an addict.  It is not as serious as smoking or drinking, I assure myself, and yet any addiction takes away your personal freedom and puts you in bondage.   What will it take for me to quit?  I used to ask myself the same question when I smoked, and when I smoked weed, and when I drank.  It is not so much what I am addicted to that troubles me, but that I have these "addictive" thoughts.  I have an attitude of "needing" this fix, or of wanting it so badly that I will go out of my way to get it, regardless of how inconvenient it is.  As a matter of fact, I think this addiction might also lead me into temptations such as accepting an invitation from a...