Captured Life of Us

Alles het sy bepaalde uur, en vir elke saak onder die Hemel is daar 'n tyd:

'n Tyd om gebore te word en 'n tyd om te sterwe, 'n tyd om te plant, 'n tyd om uit te roeiwat geplant is.

'n Tyd om dood te maaken 'n tyd om gesond te maak, 'n tyd om af te breek en 'n tyd om op te bou... 'n tyd om te ween en 'n tyd om te lag, 'n tyd om te weeklaag en 'n tyd om van vreugde rond te spring....

'n Tyd om klippe weg te gooi en 'n tyd om klippe bemekaar te maak, 'n tyd om te omhels en 'n tyd om ver te wees van omhelsing....

'n tyd om te soek en 'n tyd om verlore te raak, 'n tyd om te bewaar en 'n tyd om weg te gooi.... 'n tyd om te skeur en 'n tyd om aan mekaar te werk... 'n tyd om te swyg en 'n tyd om te spreek....

'n tyd om lief te he en 'n tyd om te haat... 'n tyd vir oorlog en 'n tyd vir vrede....

Als het 'n bepaalde tyd ....

Moving... Don't you just hate it... It always feels like I am moving... My life in boxes....

Three years ago my sister and I started living together in Pretoria and it's been a ride... The First apartment we lived in was so noisy... Of course since I was working most nights and weekends I did not hear the noise, but my sister could take it any more.... So we moved...


First we were skeptical about the place we live in, but after all this time here we really made it home...

Suddenly my sister met someone, fell in love and got engaged... and now we have to take our lives and house apart... although I am staying behind so she can start her new life it feels like I am moving again... The house is filled with boxes.

I hate moving and I hate messy space...

I am now counting the days to moving day....

They say it is Forever and we Promise in sickness and in health and till death do us part.... Then why do we walk out and close the door when things get Hard.... Is it because we pick the easy way out or because we do not want to try any more?

I looked at my hand today and saw my finger was bare... Like I was never married... Like I never loved... I missed a ring on my finger that say I belong to someone and that love is for eternity...  A ring is not just "Bling" it is a symbol of love, eternity and Life joined to someone else....

I have advise for those who wants to give up... If there is no abuse and you are just feeling lost in your relationship I want you to try... Look again... Look at why you fell in love with the person you are with...

I once knew a guy and we spoke every night... The conversation was mostly super visual, only occasionally we  spoke about deep things... One night I told him that you know why I speak to you? He said "No"... I said it is bec…

Singer and Songwriter Shawn Mcdonald has really inspired me with his music and lyrics.... I have been playing the Roots CD non stop in my car for the past two weeks... I just love the music on this Album....  He has always written some powerful stuff.... Well done Shawn...
The Title really grabbed my attention since I feel like a tree lately standing in the middle of a storm.  The winds are blowing me side to side and i feel like i will break in two of fall over.  When storms come in our marriages, relationships, Family life, with our kids, work and life we need to be grounded firmly.  Should we not be rooted we will fall apart...  I know it seems easy to talk about being rooted but it is not.... When you are in the middle of the storms we don't think about the time when there was no storm...
The weird things about storms is that we never know when they will stop.  Just like we never know when our storms in our life will stop..... It is so easy to quit and harder to try... This i…

Karen Kingsbury has always been one of my favorite authors.... She knows just how to capture my attention with her books.... They are relevant in today's world and one can easily identify with one of her characters...  Her Baxter family series was just mind blowing, but of all her books this series is my favorite....

Of course the series starts out in New York City during 9/11, which we all know was a tragic and heartbreaking time in history.... For my birthday I got the third installment in this series and it was just as brilliant as the first two.... One Tuesday Morning, which is the first book in the series, immediately caught my attention and the fact that her books are easy to read is a bonus....  I want to read the Series from the start again...

I don't want to let the cat out of the bag, but if you have not read the books by Karen... GO GET ONE NOW.... they are brilliant... even if you don't like to read I promise you will not be able to put them down....

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Rest in Peace Hendrik Van Heerden... 5 July 2012
You know when death comes it sometimes comes sudden and swift.... I never thought that Oom Hendrik would die so young and Sudden...
"Although we didn't understand him well..."  His sister put it this way ... He was a happier and better person since was married to my mom.  My mom loved him and he loved her and that is all that is important.... The shock of him dying in the middle of the night so sudden still feels unreal.... He was taken so sudden and I can not imagine what went through my mom's mind when she tried to wake him only to found that he was already slipping away.. She watched him die in her arms....
She says she can not sleep in the room or bed where it happened.... I can not blame her to have someone you loved so much die in your arms with no one to help or assist you....
I told my mom today that the past two weeks feel like a blur.... 
I know now he is in Heaven awaiting her to come and join him one day..…

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - Albert Einstein
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