ABOUT
Hi
Thank you for choosing to get to know me. I look forward to getting to know you. That will be achieved best if you subscribe to my Life Blog, where I will reveal much about myself through songs, but more about the grace and wonder of the one I love. Here I will just sketch a bit, but there I will get into the nitty gritty and I have many stories to tell. I have been a songwriter since my youth, and there was seldom a time or place I did not carry a guitar. Today, I have a little home studio, where I create much of my music. I hope the blog will help you on your journey through life, as you learn more about Him, who has made all the difference on my journey.
Like most people, for the most part, in the beginning, it was all about me, "the little guy in the front of the scooter". My father was a Free State farmer. Up until age four, my family lived on the farm where I was born. (In my life blog I will tell you of my first childhood trauma that related to my father and that old scooter) Then the farm was sold and we moved to the beautiful city of Cape Town.
Thank you for choosing to get to know me. I look forward to getting to know you. That will be achieved best if you subscribe to my Life Blog, where I will reveal much about myself through songs, but more about the grace and wonder of the one I love. Here I will just sketch a bit, but there I will get into the nitty gritty and I have many stories to tell. I have been a songwriter since my youth, and there was seldom a time or place I did not carry a guitar. Today, I have a little home studio, where I create much of my music. I hope the blog will help you on your journey through life, as you learn more about Him, who has made all the difference on my journey.
Like most people, for the most part, in the beginning, it was all about me, "the little guy in the front of the scooter". My father was a Free State farmer. Up until age four, my family lived on the farm where I was born. (In my life blog I will tell you of my first childhood trauma that related to my father and that old scooter) Then the farm was sold and we moved to the beautiful city of Cape Town.
When we are young, we think the world begins and ends with us.
My family lived in a large house, just across from Bishops, one of the most prestigious schools in the country. I had all most children could dream of. At pre-school I was Very Juniour Champion and went on to become Head of Ogilvie House and win a coveted Lidderdale Prize, voted on by teachers and students. Every June we went on holidays to my grandfathers idyllic farm in the then Transvaal Lowveld and my family was close knit and loyal.
Yet in my bedroom, in the big old house I created a poster. It was of a nude woman, which I captioned "We have met the enemy an it is us." I had no idea how prophetic that statement would be. My journey to greater wisdom, a continuing one, has been one that for the greater part has been learned through the "furnace of affliction". YHWH had to burn some foolishness out of me. Fortunately, in spite of the foolish decisions I would make, that would turn my life into bitter pools, YHWH, who has revealed himself to us as "Father", through his son, Yahshua, came to earth through Messiah and turned my bitter pools into blessings, bringing light out of the darkness. This site is therefore mostly ABOUT HIM and dedicated to Him, who is able to save "a sinner such as you, a sinner such as me". I did not always know him by the names I use today. I believed what I had been taught, surprised in later life to learn that His very name had been removed from the scriptures.
My family lived in a large house, just across from Bishops, one of the most prestigious schools in the country. I had all most children could dream of. At pre-school I was Very Juniour Champion and went on to become Head of Ogilvie House and win a coveted Lidderdale Prize, voted on by teachers and students. Every June we went on holidays to my grandfathers idyllic farm in the then Transvaal Lowveld and my family was close knit and loyal.
Yet in my bedroom, in the big old house I created a poster. It was of a nude woman, which I captioned "We have met the enemy an it is us." I had no idea how prophetic that statement would be. My journey to greater wisdom, a continuing one, has been one that for the greater part has been learned through the "furnace of affliction". YHWH had to burn some foolishness out of me. Fortunately, in spite of the foolish decisions I would make, that would turn my life into bitter pools, YHWH, who has revealed himself to us as "Father", through his son, Yahshua, came to earth through Messiah and turned my bitter pools into blessings, bringing light out of the darkness. This site is therefore mostly ABOUT HIM and dedicated to Him, who is able to save "a sinner such as you, a sinner such as me". I did not always know him by the names I use today. I believed what I had been taught, surprised in later life to learn that His very name had been removed from the scriptures.
So I journeyed on.
Young somewhat arrogant and certainly foolish young man. Like a bird in a cage, I longed for freedom.Like most young people, I was trying to find true love and success. This often translated into my trying to find my way out of the painful emotions and disappointments of my life. The rules broken in rebellion against truth, only served to make the bars stronger. And the more I judged others, the more I was bound and suffered.
When it came to girls, those who were wild and "free" appealed to me the most, because I believed the lie perpetuated by the music I listened to, the movies I watched and even the set work books I read in school.
I hope that you will subscribe and join me on this journey we are all making towards eternity. We are all closer to our ultimate destination than we were yesterday. I am not undermining the journey, but I believe that the scripture is true, when it says, we have one life to live and then the judgement. That judgement will determine our eternity.
The secret to a great life, is firstly this. We were never meant to go through life without a saviour. The world is a mess, because it refuses the only one there is. His name in Hebrew is Yashua or Yeshua, which means Yahweh saves. Yahweh is the God of the "old" testament, whose name has been omitted from most modern bibles and replaced with the word Lord. (You can learn more about the forgotten name of God here in Hot Topic)
So. "About Me", is really about Him, because without Him, we are all really about nothing! He is the alpha and the omega and outside of Him nothing lasts forever or has any real meaning.
Young somewhat arrogant and certainly foolish young man. Like a bird in a cage, I longed for freedom.Like most young people, I was trying to find true love and success. This often translated into my trying to find my way out of the painful emotions and disappointments of my life. The rules broken in rebellion against truth, only served to make the bars stronger. And the more I judged others, the more I was bound and suffered.
When it came to girls, those who were wild and "free" appealed to me the most, because I believed the lie perpetuated by the music I listened to, the movies I watched and even the set work books I read in school.
I hope that you will subscribe and join me on this journey we are all making towards eternity. We are all closer to our ultimate destination than we were yesterday. I am not undermining the journey, but I believe that the scripture is true, when it says, we have one life to live and then the judgement. That judgement will determine our eternity.
The secret to a great life, is firstly this. We were never meant to go through life without a saviour. The world is a mess, because it refuses the only one there is. His name in Hebrew is Yashua or Yeshua, which means Yahweh saves. Yahweh is the God of the "old" testament, whose name has been omitted from most modern bibles and replaced with the word Lord. (You can learn more about the forgotten name of God here in Hot Topic)
So. "About Me", is really about Him, because without Him, we are all really about nothing! He is the alpha and the omega and outside of Him nothing lasts forever or has any real meaning.
Why Subscribe?
We all need someone to really care about us. Because he lives in me, yes, I really care about you. I am not after your money or anything else you may have to offer, unless it is more of Him. The one who has Him has all things.
I do not want you to lose out on the greatest blessing of life. The one who gives life.
So much of what people believe is life today, is only bringing them death and for far too many that means eternal death. Life without YHWH has no future to look forward to and misses out on the fullness of life that he gives, even now, to those who love him.
Let me at least help you, in as much as I can, to find Him who is the way, the truth and the life.
I do not want you to lose out on the greatest blessing of life. The one who gives life.
So much of what people believe is life today, is only bringing them death and for far too many that means eternal death. Life without YHWH has no future to look forward to and misses out on the fullness of life that he gives, even now, to those who love him.
Let me at least help you, in as much as I can, to find Him who is the way, the truth and the life.