How to walk continuously (not continually) with God without breaking stride.
In aspiration – a little slice of Heaven on earth
Same as every day – communing with my God in the garden He made for me, and trying to keep it from the defilement of the world.
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Un sens d’épanouissement
Let’s define work not just as a job, career or occupation, but the sum total of everything we do that gives life meaning – ergo taking care of children, siblings and family members is just as much ‘work’ as going to the office. Hard work is certainly praised by the Bible (Proverbs 22:29) and I take delight in exerting the faculties God has bestowed on me – muscle to effect change in the physical, the mind to think and reason, the heart to be touched by His Word – in many varied ways to glorify Him. Work is all around us, in subtle and obvious detail: the heating of the earth by the sun, the uptake of micronutrients by plant rootlets, army ants carrying crumbs into their hiding place. Some of these happen in the quiet of nature, hidden from our eyes; others are more readily observed. I have come to realise that for hard work to be fulfilling, it must also be balanced with rest – real rest. Rest is encoded in our genetic make-up and other patterns seen in nature; it is not an inconvenient interruption but a necessity. After all, God Himself rested after creation (Genesis 2:3).
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The African spirit
Daily writing prompt
What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?
It’s the traditional lifestyle – the connection to nature, the ochre dust from which we were taken (Genesis 2:7), and connection to the supernatural realm, which is pre-eminent. It is the hospitality for those we know and strangers alike. It is being undiluted by the rot of modernisation – children respecting elders, elders disciplining children, everyone playing their God-given role for the advancement of society. It is rebuilding after every trauma our continent and people have been put through, and still our light has yet to be extinguished. Because we are fire – God’s fire, arrows launched into the void to dispel the powers of darkness and break up the works of the devil. We have our problems, but we are rich in the things that matter.
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