RedeemedPioneer
I’m Lulu van Aswegen—a wife, mother, grandmother, and writer from Bloemfontein. Life, faith, and family inspire the reflections and short stories I share here. I write in English as RedeemedPioneer and in Afrikaans as VrygekoopteBaanbreker.
Explore, enjoy, and feel free to share your thoughts—I’m delighted to have you here!
RedeemedPioneer
WELCOME HOME!
…not the warmest WELCOME, but HOME indeed. WARNING : The graphic nature of the picture on the left...
T MINUS ZERO : A TIMELESS TRUTH
Where THERE minus T becomes HERE The only One Who is always THERE when no one else is. How is...
MELANIE FOXWORTH
A life lost, a lesson learnt “Look Nana, this is the lady we saw in the store last week. She was the...
NOT PICTURE PERFECT
The perception of imperfection “Look, Amelia, it’s a helper monkey! He is helping the poor fishy.”...
RETURN TO DARKNESS
—my Gethsemane, revisited— I sit there, in the darkness It gnaws on my bones It smothers my soul It is so...
TROUBLED SOUL
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ODE TO HER
Carli van Aswegen (30 March 1995 - 25 January 2022) My beloved daughter-in-love Today would’ve been...
BROKEN FIXTURES AND FIXED BROKENNESS
Not the whole picture…. Last year I wrote STIL SKEPPER, STERK STORMS EN ‘N STUKKENDE STRANDHUISIE (click...
THE GOODNESS OF MY GOD
I find myself in a place where I have a deep desire and yearning to consider the pure goodness of the Lord,...
JESUS, MY ETERNAL HOPE
Three passages of Scripture have grabbed a particular hold on my heart over the last days and weeks. Upon...
FROM A FREE STATE SUNRISE TO A FALSE BAY SUNSET
A journey from the heart of the Forgotten Capital to the outskirts of the Mother City for a thirty-ninth...
BLEEDING BOTS & PROGRAMMED PEOPLE
“Hello Zinzi.” “Hello Mikey, how can I help you?” “I feel overwhelmed, Zinzi. Nobody listens...
FILL UP ON THE FIX OF 2026
I have been around long enough to know and admit that when end-of-year fatigue hits, we tend to disconnect...
ANNIE‘S GIFT
You introduced Spring 1995 And Spring became like you Force of nature, a whole season You came to...
WHEN THE FOGHORN’S SIREN IS DIFFERENT
A silent call to discernment “Nana, what is a foghorn?” “A foghorn is a powerfully loud, low-pitched warning...














