Enkounters

False Start This past Saturday saw me hiking to Hollywell with a group of young people and their friends. The theme was 'Go   Haad Inna the Race Nuh Watch Nuh Face'. It's an annual event that the fit, unfit and totally clueless normally look forward to. The hike got off to a late start this year with the group being held up by the buses? Or were we waiting for others to turn up? No one really knows. The time was however spent wisely, in devotion and with people catching up, chit chatting, being introduced to new faces or in my case introducing themselves to new faces. I must admit though that I was a bit frustrated as I was really looking forward to what would be my first time 'hiking' it to Hollywell...not hitch hiking parts of the way or being driven all the way up, but really hiking. I believe we eventually left at around 8:30 or 8:45? that morning. Red Light District We had to drive for about 30minutes to get to Red Light. Here we had to stop again. ...

While I was an undergraduate at the UWI Mona, I was fortunate to become friends with and live with some of the most interesting people in Jamaica :) One such person was Aisha Harris who, when I woke up one morning and told her about one very disturbing baby dream that I had, decided to interpret the dream for me. This was in 2004 . In the dream there were three babies (3) who were not regular babies and they were plaguing me, sucking the energy out of me (literally). They were very skinny and shadowy but I still perceived them as babies in the dream. I tried chasing them and caught two (2) of them but the skinniest one of all slipped away down the bath tub drain! When I woke up, my heart was still beating from the chase. I had to tell someone about it. Below is the interpretation I was given for the dream: Genesis 37, 39-41 God speaks to people through dreams. All dreams have spiritual meanings. It can be a dream of evil or good. (God prepares/warns through dreams, because...

The other night I had many different dreams. The dreams did not follow naturally from anything I had experienced in the day so needless to say, it was weird. What was also weird was that I woke up remembering one of the dreams very clearly. In that particular dream, I had a baby. I had never had a baby, so you can imagine the predicament. I remembered it clearly though, he was a newly born baby boy; he was small, pristine and beautiful and he was mine. The dream spanned some months of his life.  In his first few months I fed him on breast milk. I remember, in the dream, switching breasts from left to right to ensure that he was getting the best quality milk all the time. I remember that I always had him with me and I remember looking down at him peacefully suckling away. Then some months passed and I forgot that I had a baby. You read right...I completely forgot that I had a baby boy! When I had awoken from the dream I found it strange that the baby did not cry to remind me that he...

Listen! Be quiet  do not make the slightest sound, be still...Do you hear what I hear? How loud it is...the unshakable and Unmistakable...silence. Somehow, the young have fallen; Into a deep impenetrable sleep. Behold how strange it is... Those whom He has equipped with extraordinary strength To wrestle with the principalities and powers of darkness in this world... are... Swinging in hammocks with the elders, And enjoying sweet slumber with the suckling babes. But listen once more! Even more carefully... If you must...then hold your breath ... What do you hear now? Behold the enemy is on the prowl The ruthless fiend that knows no sleep. Just look  how he boasts in his exploits, People falling like flies; murders by daylight, Another claimed by HIV, increase in selfishness, a growing generation  of fatherless children being raised by reckless mothers, Yet another soul finding its solace in darkness. So much noise, turmoil, restlessness, waste, pandemonium and stil...

You will know the truth and the truth will set you free...  John 8:32 I was walking in HWT (Half-Way-Tree) yesterday (read Friday) and saw this 'innocent enough' looking elderly white woman, at the traffic lights, handing out what looked like tracts. The front of the tract read 'Does God Really Love You?' and the front of her shirt read- Judgement Day . I was in a hurry but I thought I would take one for reading sake and to encourage others to take one (you know...do my good deed for the day :) . When I got to my destination and flipped through the tract boy was I glad that I had taken one!  Inside the Tract... Well like many other tracts this four-fold beauty was encouraging and urging people to accept Christ; to be persuaded of their sinful nature and believe that it is only through Christ that man (read man and woman, boy and girl) can be made right with God. It also encouraged people to read the BIBLE and know the 'truth'...now for the bomb...  http://ww...

What if tomorrow never comes for you? What would you do if you really knew... all the horrors that would be left behind for all to see? All the gruesome truths that would be revealed concerning that vapid thing You have called your life Which you tried so very hard to conceal from the world, The pretence you have, for so long, clothed in frills and nifty suits Much to the detriment of the real you - rotting away at the core, Drowning in the filth of regret, greed, envy, self piety, and hatred Beyond the help of anyone or any device you could employ to make things right. What then? What of those fiendish schemes you were planning to execute; Just another means to the end of self aggrandizement? Could you bear to know the shame it would bring To those who trusted you to do the right and honourable thing? Or are you really that far gone...

Agonizingly, painfully, decay drags along Slowly, carefully removing life from every crease and crevice. The earthen temple, once so majestic is now a rubble and stone heap still trying to remain firm against the impending and inevitable blow of sudden destruction. But... With that final blow it will crumble. The temple returned to the ashes from which it had been formed The occupant freed ... to its final destination.