HOME

 This book is centered on my fascination with the following four phenomena – Heaven, Angels, Life’s tortuous journey, and Grace.

I have for a long time been fascinated by heaven, and what people actually do there. For example, is it an exciting or boring place? I remember reading the scriptures many years ago and wondering whether all people ever do there is sing songs and worship God. Such thoughts certainly didn’t excite me; rather, the thought of bowing down to God over and over again and singing song after song after song caused me to dread going to heaven for fear of being consigned to an eternity of boredom.

But over the years I have come to realise that God is not a boring God. I choose to believe that heaven is a place where we will all be able to do the things we absolutely love doing - as much as we want, and when we want.

In the past five years, as well as going through a painful divorce I have lost an older sister, an older brother, and my father to cancer. My dear nephew also died very suddenly.

What struck me the most was that the more I openly discussed the pain I was going through, the more I realised that so many others were either experiencing their own personnel hell, or had already gone through something fairly similar.  Furthermore, one never truly knows or understands the reason for another person’s behaviour or circumstance until one delves a little deeper. There is always an underlying reason for someone’s behaviour – whether good or bad. It is for this reason that the book jumps around a lot – from past to present, and even to the future; producing a compilation of short, intertwined stories of life’s ups and downs, and the many consequences of our actions. Just as in real life we are all somehow linked with one another, the characters in ‘Home’ are all directly or indirectly interlinked.  

The one thing we all need, and desperately cling onto in this life is hope – hope for a better tomorrow; hope that things will not go wrong; hope that everything will turn out just fine; and hope that there is more to life than what we see on a daily basis.

Home is a book about not giving up – no matter what, in the hope of a better tomorrow, and an eternity of peace and joy.