Ernestina Francois

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye (Matthew 7:3-5). As I sat to recall how my conversation went on that glorious day, the only thing I could remember was that stern yet quie[...]

"The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all" Psalm 34:19 NIV. I remember gazing in the depth of my thoughts, sitting across from what is now an obsolete white and giant rear computer monitor, lodging on top of an old white hard drive with a floppy disk slot. [Flashback: A glorious computer-internet era if you happened to own one of these heavy hunchback computers or were privileged enough to use one on university campus]. Struggling with a science presentation, I had[...]