SEEING AND PERCEIVING

April 23, 2017 by David Abdelmalak in Religion, Essay, Musings

How do you perceive God? How do you view Him? The answer to that question has no impact or bearing on who God is - He tells us “I AM who I AM”; rather, the answer you give reveals a truth about you...

EASTER

April 17, 2017 by David Abdelmalak in Religion, Musings

As each religious holiday (Christmas and Easter primarily) rolls around yearly, we can sometimes find ourselves numbed by the secularised version of the celebration. This secularised version is the version of the holiday designed to make it palateable and marketable to the masses...

GOD AND LANGUAGE

April 06, 2017 by David Abdelmalak in Religion, Essay, Musings

There are some moments in life that reveal a divine spark. Moments that we look back on where something happened that exceeded our wildest dreams and expectations. Moments that feel greater than us, moments that can go on to define us. Some attribute these moments to coincidence or luck...

BREAKING THE SILENCE

March 27, 2017 by David Abdelmalak in Medical, Musings, Article

It’s a Friday afternoon and I’m running late. The waiting room of our General Practice surgery is filled to bursting as I walk out to call my next patient, Brian (not his real name). He sullenly walks down the corridor to my consulting room without lifting his eyes from the carpet below...

THE BEGINNING

March 25, 2017 by David Abdelmalak in Musings

In a way, this is the hardest entry to write.

Beginnings are tough. You start with a blank page and you have aspirations for what that page could become, but you don't know where to begin. I might have to plagiarise just to get myself started...