The Family That Moves Together
A man, his wife and children walk the streets of Nakuru.
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I Run to You
A girl runs into the arms of her father.
A Father’s Love
My Child…
You may not know me, but I know everything about you
…Psalm 139:1
I know when you sit down and when you rise up
…Psalm 139:2
I am familiar with all your ways
…Psalm 139:3
Even the very hairs on your head are numbered
…Matthew 10:29-31
For you were made in my image
…Genesis 1:27
In me you live and [...]
The Messenger
Choruses from “The Rock”, 1934.
By T S Eliot
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart, for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite and Geshem the Arabian: were doubtless men of public spirit and zeal.
Preserve me from the enemy who [...]
The Birthday of my life has come
A BIRTHDAY
Christina Rossetti
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water’d shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a daïs of silk and [...]
Bride Price
Zimbabwe families debate ‘lobola’ [bride price] tradition
Posted on November 28, 2009
http://www.coastweek.com/xin271109-06.htm
“People marry to build relationships, not to beat each other” – Men’s rights group director Leo Wamwanduka
HARARE — Zimbabwe has launched nationwide debates on the issue of lobola (bride price) to get people’s views on the meaning of lobola and its link with domestic violence, [...]
The Gift of Milk
A bride receives a gourd of milk at her wedding ceremony.
The gift of milk is an important part of any Kalenjin wedding ceremony. The Kalenjin are a Kenyan ethnic community that comprises of eight tribes. They are about 2.7 Million Kalenjins who live in the Kenyan western highlands. The name Kalenjin roughly translates to ‘I [...]
The Mask of the Madman
The Madman – His Parables and Poems
BY
Khalil Gibran
You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen,–the seven masks I have fashioned an worn in seven lives,–I ran maskless through the [...]
Songs of praise
A conductor leads his choir during a church service in Nairobi, Kenya
Prosperity Gospel
“Soon, it is hoped, we will reach our full potential”
Matthew VIII, 28 ff.
Rabbi, we Gadarenes
Are not ascetics; we are fond of wealth and possessions.
Love, as You call it, we obviate by means
Of the planned release of aggressions.
We have deep faith in prosperity.
Soon, [...]
Sacrament
A priest administers the sacrament at a Catholic service in Nairobi, Kenya.
Our Sunday Prayers
This life is naught but a struggle for good men.
The holy book hath sung it in your ears.
The son the father loves most tenderly
He chastens most: and so God proves his saints
By hard blows here, and recompense of joy hereafter.
So take it [...]
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