My first blog post .... ever!
Why am I so nervous? Yet excited ... Samthoughts.com! That's me! Writing my thoughts, instead of someone else's. Ahhh ... but will you still like me if they are my thoughts! There's an Australian TV show currently just finishing its first series ... "Please Like Me!" I haven't watched it. But the title speaks volumes right now. And tomorrow, it's Christmas. What a good time to begin this venture ... to give birth to "this" baby. Not that I am for one moment comparing the launch of this Blog to the birth Jesus Christ! Me? I'm Samthoughts.com! ... I'm only saying both are new beginnings. Now there's a thought - new beginnings and perhaps no going back. So that leads me to think of all the refugees around this world. Especially those in the more recent news - the Syrian and Iraqi people who have made their break from their homelands and into Europe. Will they look back to this time as their "new beginning"? Was their timing, their decision making, was it all correct? Only time will tell as perhaps some languish with their families, with their children, in camps behind razor wire. I've experienced that razor wire. A Detention Centre in an Asian country, back in the 1990's. I visited English speaking Africans caught up in their own situation - looking for work to send money back home. It was wrong visas mostly that put them in Detention. And there they were, patiently waiting deportation ... some for a number of years. In winter their feet were very cold. Shoes are taken off them so if they try to escape, as some do, they first need to climb across the razor wire with bare feet. Then run with bare feet. Nasty stuff that razor wire. Look where my thoughts have taken me - my own insecurities in the birth of my Blog, difficult new beginnings, razor wire and cold feet. So ... if you are reading this with cold feet somewhere ... know you are not forgotten. My thought for you this Christmas is: New beginnings may first take you to places you don't want to go ... to situations you don't want to be in. God grant you the strength to endure the present so you follow that "gut feeling" ... to give your family a better life .... perhaps even to save their lives. May you come into a safe place soon. Peace and love ... and Merry Christmas where ever you are! (c) 2015 Samthoughts.com
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December 2019
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