Reflections on a Drizzly Day

dated 24 Sept. 2009

It’s difficult living with people who have deep insecurities.

It’s difficult living with people who have very different values.

It’s difficult living with people who think they know you when they don’t.

It’s difficult to live in an old city where old sins have taken deep roots, and the culture and values have been shaped by its oldness.

Happy are those who live for others yet others think those who live that way don’t have a life!

Happy are those who live as they want to live, though not necessarily accepted by others for doing so.

If God were not my Refuge and Strength… Thank God, He is!

It's the last day of Third Term tomorrow and then it will be two weeks of holiday... and then I will most likely be sitting here again, watching the rain dripping, "trip-trip-trip" on my windscreen, under a huge tree, in front of my younger daughter's school, watching the drops roll down, making the tree trunks and gnarled twigs, foliage and blooms flow before my eyes, looking like a melancholic artist's painting on canvass... It's just another day, one of my many detention days.