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.
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RedeemedPioneer
LITTLE BOY
On this day in 1945 an estimated 80,000 people were instantly killed off in one of the most devastatingly...
CELEBRATE 731 DAYS!
Seven hundred and thirty one days ago, in the dead of a Free State winter, a hunkingly handsome...
FROM AMUSEMENT TO AMAZEMENT
My beloved Assie and I spent a few days on a Free State farm last week.
ASSISTING THE DYING TO MAINTAIN DIGNITY IN DEATH
Although I started out in Afrikaans, I decided to write this reflection in English to make it accessible to...
YOUR TIME IS UP, EMPERORS, YOU ARE THE WEAKEST (NAKED) LINKS!
This is an opinion-infused exposé on the dreary, drawn-out saga of South African government gwarra gwarra...
MOTHER’S DAY 2024
I spent Wednesday afternoon feverishly working on my TEARS, TATTOOS AND THE TENDER WISDOM OF A FIVE-YEAR-OLD...
TEARS, TATTOOS AND THE TENDER WISDOM OF A FIVE-YEAR-OLD
The older I get, the more proficiently skilled I seem to get in lachrymation secretion. Uninhibitable and...
THE LIGHT OF LOVE IN SUFFERING
I was afforded the exciting opportunity to preach at my church’s English evening service this past Sunday....
GOOD FRIDAY
He knew, ahead of time, that He would pay with His Life for ALL the unspeakable evil in this world….AND HE...
FROM NANA TO STITCH
”In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.“
THE TRAUMA FROM SLASHED DIGNITY IN THE OPERATING THEATRE
Anybody who has ever had to undergo any kind of operation or procedure knows that an operating theatre is a...
RAINBOW THANKSGIVING
DISCLAIMER : Although characters and situations in this story are based on actual people, institutions and...
DOOM(ED) REALITY FOR RAIN SPIDERS AND PEOPLE ALIKE
“First, you douse it with Doom to incapacitate it and then you stomp on it or smite the last life out of it...
A PICTURE OF ME ON MY BIRTHDAY
“If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will...
CUPCAKES & LIGHTSABERS
“May I please sit on your lap, Nana?” Micah is a blazing ball of excitement, because today is his fifth...