Joy
…At Christmas time, joy feels amplified. It fills our homes, our churches, our streets, and our hearts. We decorate, we gather, we give, and we remember. We remember why this season exists in the first place, the birth of Christ, a symbol of love given freely, of hope entering the world through humility, of joy arriving not with noise, but with purpose…
Gap
…When someone like that leaves your life, it leaves a huge void.
There is no gentle way to describe it. No poetic phrase that fully captures the absence. It is a gap; wide, unexpected, and painfully quiet. A space where laughter once lived…
All about Trust
…We don’t always realise how delicate trust is until we’re standing in the middle of shattered pieces, trying to figure out how something so strong, so dependable, could suddenly become so fragile…
Burdens
…Not every burden was meant for us. Not every weight is ours to carry…
Integrity
…But the truth is, none of that can hide how we treat people. None of it can compensate for character that’s inconsistent, transactional, or convenient. Because integrity… integrity does not bend for convenience. It does not shift depending on the audience. It does not change when nobody is looking…
Hiding
…There’s a quiet pain that comes from holding back truth, a weight that settles in the heart. It’s the discomfort of living out of alignment, of knowing that the version of ourselves we show the world isn’t the one that lives inside us…
Enabling
…So how do we stop enabling? We start by recognizing our own worth. We set boundaries, not walls. We say no, not because we don’t care, but because we care about ourselves too. We stop making excuses for those who constantly take, and we stop apologizing for expecting better…
Trauma
…Hurricane Melissa may have tested our resilience, but she also reminded us of something powerful: even when everything familiar is stripped away, our spirit remains. And from that spirit, we will rise, steadier, wiser, and perhaps even more compassionate than before. For me, Jamaica is not just a place, it’s a people, a resilient people, a people that never allows themselves to stay down when kicked in the face. Jamaica, land we love, Jamaica to the world…
Apprehension
…Apprehension has a strange way of paralyzing us. It makes us sit still when we should be moving, thinking when we should be doing. But sometimes, it also gives us time, time to reflect, to prepare, to gather our own strength. Maybe that’s the lesson in this waiting…
Breaking point
…There’s a difference between grace and self-neglect. Christ turned the other cheek, yes, but he also overturned the tables in the temple when boundaries were crossed. He knew when enough was enough. He knew when righteous anger was necessary…