Simply, because I can ...

When we share our emotions, our dreams, our fears, our efforts, our pain, our hopes, and our joys, we open up powerful opportunities for others to learn. Life experience is a master teacher and when we share our experiences, we empower others. Life is too short not to take advantage of all the free resources around us. In this blog, I share what I have experienced in life simply, because I can...

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Sunday, 22 June 2025

Quiet Moments of Faithfulness

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We’re living in a world that feels increasingly unsettled. Wars rage. Natural disasters devastate. Economies wobble. And beneath it all, p...
Saturday, 21 June 2025

A Shift in Interest

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I ’ m an empath, and over the years I ’ ve noticed how easily attention sharpens when something truly interests a person. Details then becom...
Monday, 16 June 2025

Casting Stones

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In my previous post, I wrote about the refining fire — a mysterious and holy process. While it strips us, shapes us, and ultimately transfor...

When God sits by the Fire

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Today, a dear friend shared something on social media with me. It’s a well-known sermon illustration tied to Malachi 3:3: “He will sit as a ...
Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Tolerate and be Tolerated

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You’ve probably heard something like this before: “Don’t talk about so-and-so in front of me.” “I don’t want to hear anything that questio...
Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Sway, Stretch, Adapt!

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The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. ~ Robert Jordan The hard truth about life is that it do...
Saturday, 1 March 2025

Set the Bar Higher

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When you set the bar too low—when you tell yourself that dreaming bigger is pointless—you’re basically rolling out the welcome mat for medio...
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Karin Erasmus Steyn
Langebaan, Western Cape, South Africa
I'm a retired high school teacher. I started teaching in 1988 and retired in 2021. The last 12 years were spent teach English for Grades 10, 11, and 12. I've written the following novels:1) Pop-In Jay Pomp (children), 2) Mareijke's Courage (adventure romance), 3) The 6th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Kill (murder mystery), 4) The Power is Yours (teen motivation), 5) Through the Bark (teen fantasy), 6) Implicitly (adventure romance), and I Think You Know (adventure romance). My motto in life is: You are what you constantly think. I live by these words. A person's thoughts have tremendous power: they can inspire, motivate, encourage, disillusion, and destroy. The art of thinking lies in the power to discern between the good and the bad, and still find a way for a positive attitude. This is the true weapon to success. I was diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy in 2019, which brought an end to my teaching career. I relocated to the Western Cape in 2022. I love the bushveld where I lived for more than 20 years, but I'm enjoying the change. I'm currently married to Nick Steyn (1988), and we have two children, Jana (1992) and Colin (1997).
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