The Dilz Journey

Man it has been a great year. Grateful to the good Lord for the gift of family, friendship and everything and everyone in between. ❣

Talking with Annie a few days ago and just processing through how we sometimes have this idea of ourselves in our minds - that I am humble, that I am a good person, loving and nice and kind, people loving and never judging and most of all - "godly".... All rainbows and sunshine until you meet someone who lives and goes beyond your lifestyle, or what you thought was good and I remember just having to sit still for a minute and take in what I had just encountered.  The way God had it was, I caught up with an oldest good friend of mine from high school this past month and I couldnt believe what I learnt/ discovered about myself. I thought I knew grace until I met her. (Turns out I might be needing grace lessons now and again, and again and again.)  We (a group of friends) all wrote in my journal in high school from time to time and it just so happened that I found this journal around the time I met this one. We laughed good and hard over the sillinness of what o...

I want to put this on here so that I remember. Powerful use and choice of lingual in a song suiting for our people/ nation! (and by a twenty one year old!) Coolest. 

                                                                                            SLR // TATA SITI                                                                     For what it's worth, you stood because you believed it can be done; you believed it was worth your every breath no matter the cost; you believed there is more when everyone else had lost hope, you gave some hope again. The way people came together this past few weeks, in reverence for the God of our fathers, and to your favor for a court case, was heart felt for Fijians all over the world.  Peo...

'Me bula ga ko Viti ka me toro ga ki liu'.  5 days from today Fiji decides. It feels like doomsday with all the bickering, hate speeches nonsense; like the world is going to end and there's no more future.  Just in case we'll all still be alive then, I am grateful for Viti.  I am grateful for the land that has carried us through since our forefathers claimed heritage here.  I am grateful for all that we have survived - tribal wars, Christianity, colonizers, indentured labourers, independence, politics, coups and natural disasters.  Still standing, still functioning mixed blooded people. The diversity is admirable. Nothing like it. No one like us!  If anything, at the end of elections, I hope we remember the victories we've celebrated, the relationships we've created and shared in them, the losses we've conquered, the impression we had on the royals; I hope we remember the oneness. I hope we remember that we don't al...

                                              Tutu & Nau // The Grands ❤  Life is slowly deteriorating for them physically and some days mentally. We encountered some unimaginable seasons. But I am so. so grateful. For them. My other set of first best friends. I can't believe I have the blessing of still having them alive. Today I appreciate them. Trusting that God is weaving all things beautiful in the process.  If there's anything I'm learning from them, it is that brutal as circumstances may be, God is worth counting on; forgiveness is worth choosing; love always wins. Always.  We celebrated Tutu's 87th a month ago. There were lots of tears. He was always the man of the show. This time, he sat there almost oblivious that we all gathered to celebrate him. Senile. Weak. Eyes closed. We missed him, even though he was/ is st...