peace

A different kind of peace

Some more thoughts that jumped out at me as i was reading 'Chasing Francis' recently. Firstly, if you have never read the peace prayer of Francis of Assisi, this thing is so flippin powerful. Imagine if every day, all of us started off our days by honestly praying this and then looking for it to determine the kind of day we have: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me [...]

Listen up, South Africa – Avuyile Tu here…

A rendition from the heart: Wouldn’t it be great to wake up one day and see everyone living at peace with each other? Wouldn’t it be wonderful that no one harboured feelings of resentment and injustice with the other instead we stand side by side as brothers? I yearn and hunger for a South Africa of equality in life and in living standards. I long for a land where the needs of the majority are [...]

By |2015-01-16T01:44:35+02:00January 16th, 2015|inspire-ations, thorts of other people, Uncategorized|35 Comments

Taboo Topics: Singleness [Intro]

SINGLENESS is a topic that usually does not get addressed well, if at all. There was a time when particularly within the catholic church the focus was on singleness as the way to have reached it - nuns and monks and the gift of celibacy were the way to go and being single meant you were seen as more spiritual and closer to God and there were bible passages that could be used to 'back [...]

POME: the very nature of things [written at Namrock ‘10]

wind, take a bough then send it crashing to the ground water, flow slowly along pummelling, pummelling, the rocks beneath the surface smoothing their edges by sheer  weight of temporal force little bird, glide smoothly through the air then swoop, crashing through the water’s uncreased surface and fly away once more, carrying death back to feed your children blow, gentle cool breeze upon the dying embers breathing new life into them breathing, breathing and suddenly [...]

By |2010-06-23T14:34:17+02:00June 23rd, 2010|poems and other creativity|0 Comments

an unSTOPPABLE force, part multiculturalism/diversity/unity

some more Erwin McManus from the book 'an unSTOPPABLE force' - From the chapter ‘Friction Traction’ On Multiculturalism: ‘The gospel, as presented in our time, has been crafted in such a way that would only bring Christians to Christ.’ ‘Evangelism for much of the church has not been among unbelievers but focused on receivers – people who already accepted our worldview.’ ‘The “great sociologist” Rodney King once said, “Can’t we all just get along?” The [...]

By |2010-01-14T04:43:47+02:00January 14th, 2010|church, God stuff, people|0 Comments
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