so what is so important in a name that this was among Gods first instruction to man? See before God put man into the Garden of Eden, he assigned names to the larger foundational elements of His creation; He named a thing and in so doing defined its function for all time. The pattern emerges
Often I have asked, where Gods heart is in the matter. It is Jesus who says, ‘come to me all you who are heavy laden’… and I have seen the weight that those that have come out to me carry. The self-hate, the self-erasure the insecurity… they have been fighting so hard just to exist within themselves, I have no heart to add the weight of shallow prejudice on their backs. Truth be told, I want to hug and hide you in places where nothing can come at you anymore, where maybe, Jesus can do what he intended to do when he invited us who carry heavy burdens to come to him. Yes I include myself in this story because I also carry the kind of identity shattering brokenness, it’s just that these things show up in different ways and we really aren’t that different. I believe strongly that God will move in big ways within this and many other marginalized communities because, that’s who He is.
The sad part of this situation is that the endemic silence of the church over times past when her voice was needed the most, and then followed by a slow and steady dilution of the word and reverence for the word and for the name of Jesus, have played a major role in the mockery… The other thing about this wave of mockery is that it is a sign of the times both within the church and outside the church
How does one separate the brokenness of the men in our society from the generational effects of the world wars, fights for freedom and the continued interference of the crown in our economic affairs?
The issue that we see today as a high number of qualified people competing for few jobs, is rooted in how the hut tax system was implemented just before the first word war to ensure that European settlers always had access to cheap labour. The uncomfortable reality we sit with today as Africans and as people of the global south, we are living in and trying to make it work in an economic system which was designed to use our labour and exclude us from the benefits of that labour.
Have you ever had a moment where you looked into a mirror and truly wondered who it was that was looking back at you? Perhaps life came so fast and you rode it so efficiently that when things slowed down, the person your mind thinks you are and the person looking back at you in…
Perhaps 2 years ago I came come from a parents meeting from my children’s school and I felt so disheartened not about the curriculum as many parents are now crying but rather at the realization that as a community and a society, our sense of value is very lopsided and this is the root of…
There’s a walk, I call it the broken walk. Its that semi stumble, semi stagger walk that is the result of a heart crashing so loud it fills every crevice in the body and all you know in that moment is to get away from the source of that pain. It’s the results of avalanches…
The past year and some has been hard one so many of us in so many ways. It’s been hard in obvious and publicly visible ways, It’s been harder in private ways that are barely under the surface and it’s been a hard one in those deep dark places in oneself that are scary to…
Here we meet the lie of an unattainable standard of perfection covered by years of perpetuating the same lie in public and knowing that in secret they wanted the freedom to just be but that was not good enough to fit in. Long and short is that there is a correlation between shame and sin.