JLucas (ONE LOVE ONE HEART)

I just love it in Jamaica. We have scheduled meals from Monday to Sunday. One of my exciting meals in a week is Saturday soup. Initially I didn’t like it for soup back home is for those who are sick and the mothers who have delivered. Back home soup is also for older men and…

During the month of December, I celebrate life and as much as I want to go wild in bitterness and anger am still thankful for what this past year has taught me. I believe someone somewhere; someone I don’t know and I am not related to in any way, someone I care for is fighting…

As I was reading my spiritual book ‘Let us Dream’ – by Pope Francis, I come across this paragraph that threw me into deep thoughts. It was talking how covid has unmask another pandemic that many of us have been giving a blind eye. The pandemic of indifference. A pandemic that I was consider as…

We all have candles in our lives that are still yet to be lit and in life we need people who will take time to light those candles which sometimes we really do not know if we have them.  For the last few months, I was introduced to minister to a radio station that is…

“I AM TIRED” ……… is a word we all use knowingly and unknowingly in many ways and for many reasons but last week when I used it while speaking to one of my Jamaican mother, she shouted out to me, “I do not want to hear that word in my house, never again should you…

Every day I have learned to keep my “To-Do List” to guide me on what to do during the day and make sure I accomplish most of what is to be done. On the other hand, while still alive, I have my “To Visit List” and “To Meet List” to guide me to places I…

By -@kaka Lucas. 9/92021 This is the year of gratitude for me. Despite all that I am facing I still have a million things to be grateful for. This is truly a  year to be grateful. I am graduating from the University of the West Indies and just the thought of how I maneuvered through…

  -@kaka Lucas 8/31/2021 My Tuesday wasn’t the best after I learned that I am not going back on campus at the time I expected. My host was open enough to tell me what was going on behind the tent and to be honest my heart was broken, and my already wounded heart started to bleed.…

Today we celebrate the feast of saint Augustine. He is well known for his adventurous life both spiritually and physically. One of his known quotes is that “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.” Having little knowledge of saint Augustine, I still admire his way of…

By -@kaka Lucas, 8/25/2021……… My host asked me “how was the night” … I went ahead to answer him, “the night was dark!” It is one thing to feel well-rested, but it is another to actually sleep well. For the past 8 weeks I couldn’t sleep well, I could not turn my brain off, especially…