Healing Hands - Blessed Beyond Measures

We are seeing a call to live out love, faith and hope in a world of institutional structures that speak hate, abuse and anger. As the United States of America dares to peal off the bandage of compromise and silence that has kept racism underground but very much alive and growing. The world watches as things unfold and a new era is begun, through a revival of conscience and principles and a willingness to be. Racism has haunted international relations and development dynamics in its various forms, from the rise of nationalism, the reflection of colonialism and imperialistic dispossession a people of identity, name, culture and dignity. These atrocities which once publicly where part of institutional policy are now privately the foundation of national and in part international culture that is used to limit, denigrate and justify the murder of people of colour. The murder of George Floyd is only part of the killing that occurs the destruction of the flesh. The more critical annihilation i...

Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. In the past few days the world has been witnessing an increase in documented violence the murder of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and many others is the manifestation of institutional dispossession. The capacity to view the life of any individuals as valueless and their death as minor is not only a crime but a social tragedy. In all the cases highlighted instances of tragedy happened because of ingrained attitudes that approved of dispossession. The individual was label a criminal by their race and location removing their voices and rights before the facts where known, once labeled as unworthy of care and notice any action was validated in the eyes of the perpetrators.   The attitudes that seen on camera in the various cases were of the conquerers towards the unworthy, the powerful towards the weak and the tragic reality is that while repeated outcries follow those with the...

The death of  Ahmaud Arbery  is a testament of the evil in individuals. The evil that is celebrated in some communities as self defence. Defence against something undeserving, something, different indeed something that should be relegated to the back of beyond.  The religious community around the world addresses such events with a call to prayer and teach them while young, teach children values and morals, right and wrong. Yet these men who killed another are moral men in the eyes of their community, they are protectors of right and wrong as defined by them. Their bias and xenophobic world view is a communal attitude, making it dangerous to be different.  In the death of Ahmaud Arbery two world collide. In his death philosophies battle. Some view racism as the actions done only by whites, while other declare that racism is common to all-races hence to them all racism is equal, while others like Adam Hochman a lecturer at Macquarie University states that there ...

Silenced by Uniformity  When one looks at the world and views the beauty of creation, It is a wonder that there’re such diverse groups in creation yet in the midsts of each group the individual is unique. You look at the field and see that grass yet in its similarly as being grass, each leave shouts for attention that you would take time to check deeper and realise that each leave is uniquely lined. Suddenly the beauty that was so clear and flowing is riveting with diversity and deeper meaning. That God would choose to make each bee different - unique that in the midst of the mass of its hive it would not be forgotten or lost. Indeed the uniqueness a stamp, treasured by the creator and every observer who dares to see beyond the obvious.  Yet one must ask is uniformity progress, is peace equal to the demand of silence, indeed is individuality a danger to society. Let it not be so in our eyes that we can only accept others and their difference by denying ourselves. Ra...

Comment on a news report  Migration who belongs to whom?   When does a migrant become the property and responsibility of the country of origin? Who defines the time and place? The Stopped deportation of a Zimbabwean man, due to his HIV status and the risk of the country of origins health structures to his health. Has focused discussion in the media's between the battle of law and that of the desire of society. The questions of identity, obligations and justice have been raised. This man who is described as a career criminal who had lived for decades in the United Kingdom ( https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52470783 ). He spent a fortune to remain in a land that he was brought into. He matured in this host nation, he abused the hospitality of the host nation and now the host nation will be asked to care for him on humanitarian grounds while citizens look on.   As migration challenges continue to mount and the complexity of the impartial legal frameworks   aro...