It is with a heavy heart that I write this post… Somebody I know well took her own life this weekend and it really hit home. She suffered from bipolar disorder and had her struggles…

Spirituality What? What are you talking about? Is that not what we do at church, be all spiritual? Familiar question? So many of us do “spirituality”, but do we really know what it means? Or,…

People think that I manage the bipolar well through all the exercise, seeing my doctors regularly and taking my medication.  These are all tools, but prayer is where I find real strength. Paul writes in…

Why sing? and how will it improve my spirituality or other aspects of my life? Singing strengthens the immune system, according to research by scientists at the University of Frankfurt in Germany, published in the…

My brother and his wife went to a theater production.  We sat in the third row from the from the stage and right in the middle.  We could see everything that was happening on stage. …

What makes the sun come up?? Too often I hear how people have lost their faith, not just in humanity and the world but in God. And I get that, I so often feel that…

In the beginning of the year, Rochelle and I agreed to do a race at our local Vaal Mall on Wednesday 18 March.  There were three categories:  five, ten or fifteen kilometres.  I planned to…

It is a new week and this week our Happiness HELPS focus is on how can I grow my spirituality through helping others. So often we get caught up in our everyday doings. We worry…

What a way to start a Friday morning. For the past week our theme was to grow spiritually through helping others, but today I saw firsthand how we can improve our own spirituality by helping…