The word became flesh and lived among us.

I've decided I'm never going grumble or speak under my breath. If I can't say it loud enough for it to make a difference, I don't deserve to "have" it off my chest. I deserve to have it eat at me.

My thoughts literally come in floods, with light dancing on them creating a sort of miss-match. So basically I think a lot of things at the same time in great depth. So no, I don't apologise for my randomness, I'm kinda fond of it.

FAITH'S WALL OF FAME

Hebrews 11

 ¹ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ² For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.
³ By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

 

⁴ By faith ABEL offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.
⁵ By faith ENOCH was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”;^[a] for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. ⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
⁷ By faith NOAH, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
  
⁸ By faith ABRAHAM obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. ⁹ By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; ¹⁰ for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
¹¹ By faith SARAH herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child^[b] when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. ¹² Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

¹³ These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them,^[c] embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. ¹⁴ For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. ¹⁵ And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for the
  
¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, ¹⁸ of whom it was said, “In Isaac your seed shall be called,”^{[d] 19} concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
²⁰ By faith ISAAC blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
²¹ By faith JACOB, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
²² By faith JOSEPH, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.

²³ By faith MOSES, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s command.
²⁴ By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ²⁵ choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, ²⁶ esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in^[e] Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
²⁷ By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. ²⁸ By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
²⁹ By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned.

³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days. ³¹ By faith the harlot RAHAB did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.
³² And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of GIDEON and BARAK and SAMSON and JEPHTHAH, also of DAVID and SAMUEL and the PROPHETS: ³³ who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, ³⁴ quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. ³⁵ Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. ³⁶ Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted,^[f] were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented— ³⁸ of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.
³⁹ And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, ⁴⁰ God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

  

....It makes me cry...

LOVE.TIME.CHOCLATE.

I don't know how many people have been fortunate enough to experience a feeling with a touch, or a smell by tasting. Imagine if you could feel your favourite colour, or literally touch love. The love of God experienced through the human senses, as futile as they are, transcends any good feeling I have ever encounted in my entire existence. It is almost as though the body cannot contain it, and you start to understand the psalms better, the words of Paul and his unfaltering loyalty.

I LOVE his HE(ART)

Joshua Bennett

I THINK HIS WORK IS AWESOME!PERIOD!!

10 THINGS I WANT SAY TO A BLACK WOMAN

Joshua Bennett

I’d first like to say all women are beautiful from every nationality. This is nothing against any other nationality.

1. I wish I could put your voice in jar, wait for those lonely winter nights when I forget what God sounds like, run to the nearest maximum security prison and open it. Watch the notes that bounce off the walls like ricocheted bullets, punching keyholes into the sternums of every brother in the room, skeletons opening, rose blossom beautiful to remind you that the way to a black man’s heart is not through his stomach, it is through the heaven in your ‘hello’; the echo of unborn galaxies that pounces forth from your vocal cords, that melts ice grills into oceans, baptizing our lips, and so harsh words fade from our memories, and we forget why we stopped calling you divine in the first place.

2. When I was born my mother’s smile was so bright, it knocked the air from my lungs, and I haven’t been able to breathe right since. It’s something about the way light dances off your teeth, the way the moon gets jealous when you mock her crescent figure with the shape of your mouth. Queen, you make the sky insecure, self-conscious for being forced to stare at your face every morning and realize that the blues of her skin was painted by that symphony doing cartwheels on your tongue.

3. Who else can make kings out of bastards, turn a fatherless Christmas into a floor full of gifts and a kitchen that smells like the Lord is coming tomorrow, and we must eat well tonight. I used to think my sister was a blacksmith, the way she baked fire and metal and made kitchen miracles at fourteen, making enough food to feed a little boy who didn’t have the words to say how much she meant to him back then, or enough backbone to say so the day he turned twenty.

4. Your skin reminds me of everything beautiful I have ever known: the colour of ink on a page, the earth we walk on and the cross that hung my Saviour.

5. I’ve seen you crucified too, spread out on billboards to be spiritually impaled by millions of men with eyes like nails, who made mothers of your daughters; so I’m sorry for the music deals, for Justin Timberlake at the Superbowl, and that young man on the corner this morning, who made you want to shed your flesh and become invisible. Never doubt, he only insults you because, men are confused. Now we are trained to destroy or conquer everything we see from birth.

6. If I ever see Don Imus in public I will punch him in the face, one time for every member of the Rutgers and Tennessee Women Basketball Teams. Then I’ll show him a picture of Phylicia Rashad, Assata Shakur, Arthur Kit, my mother, my grandmother and my seven-year-old niece, who’s got eyes like firebombs, and then dare him to tell me that black women are only beautiful in one shade of skin.

7. You are like a sunrise in a nation at war; you remind people that there is always something worth waiting up to.

8. When we are married I will cook, do the dishes and whatever else it takes to let you know that traditional gender roles have no place in the home we build; so my last name is an option, babysitting the kids a treat we split equally, and our bed will be an ancient temple where I construct altars of wax on the small of your back. We make love like the sky is falling, moving to the rhythm of bedsprings and Bell Biv DeVoe. Angels applauding in unison, saying this is the way it was meant to be.

9. My daughter will know her father’s face from the day she is born, and I can only pray that the superman complex lasts long enough for me deflect the pain this world will aim at her from the moment she is old enough to realize that the colour brown is still not considered human most places. But my daughter will have a smile like a wheelchair, and so even when I am at my worst, when the Kryptonite of this putrid planet threatens to render me grounded, the light dancing off of her teeth, will transform the shards of my broken body into heart-shaped blackbirds, taking flight on a wing that reminds me of my Saviour’s hands, my daughter’s smile, my mother’s laugh when I was in her womb.

10. Never stop pushing, this world needs you now more than ever…

"When you going realise that you don't even have to try any longer, do what you want to."

"Just follow your heart"

I am NOT my WEAVE!!

"I AM A SOUL THAT LIVES WITHIN"

"..The World echoes my impending footsteps..."

Fenweh-  being homesick for a place you've never been.

"I am the Pre_sent...For all that lies waiting to remember me fondly..."  Mutle Mothibe

But see, you need to get to a point where you're not following what "they" before you said, just because they were smarter than you, had more resources, and a kaleidoscope of experiences? REALLY.


You end up acting or making decisions based on what someone else wrote, how someone defined a good life, a good relationship. But see, there's only one you, one "they", same scenario, different vision. I mean explain to me how a 21 year old can appreciate a lollipop coming from an old lady on the street with the same enthusiasm as a 3 year old...


Be guided, but never take what "they" said as the gospel truth.


So... Dear "they", I hear what you're saying about this same situation we find ourselves in, but had Chris Barnard, upon finding himself in the same situation as the multiple surgeons before him, with patients needing hearts, not run with his vision...the world would probably still be waiting...for me. So I'm good, I'll take my chances...thanks though.

L.F

He said " Yall should hang out...eat, you need that..."  I listened.

 EUNICE M. AND EUNICE L.

 PULENG M.

 PULENG M. AND EUNICE L.

 EUNICE M.

HE WAS RIGHT.

BACKPACKING IN MOZAMBIQUE

"If you're 22,physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel- as far and widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them- wherever you go. -Anthony Bourdain.

 1 of the grandmas...couldn't stop telling us how pretty we are.

 Grandpa got two wives...He's too cool to mention.

 Sergio... He was too good to us!!!!

Traditional beer... BEST BELIEVE I had it,lol....didn't like.

I could say a lot about this experience, but what I know for sure is that God lives!!

@ the beach Christmas night.

Tshidi M - big sis

 Mozambique made me appreciate fish.

Coconut =)

THE STREETS

 These are literally everywhere

 The Chopa- cab 4 two.

 THIS road!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Tshidi M and I

Because I think it's cool

A road long wall dedicated to Samora Machel

I understand how highly favoured and blessed I am. I am beyond humbled by the hospitality we received. I am appreciative of what I have, and not material things, but certain principles, my forever increasing knowledge bag, the people around me, be they strangers or friends.

Africa is a beautiful place, I finally understand when my dad says "re batho"

I've been contemplating the idea of a blog for a minute, because "any life worth living is worth recording". So this is pretty much a recording of my life, because I'm a student, I shall share the lessons life presents every second. A loving soul that knows no boundaries, an explorer of my infinite dream bag, an absolutely awesome creation that is a blessing to the world, whether they know it yet or not and a doppe kinda whimsical. I hear God in every good song, in stillness and in every breath. I aim to thrive and I know for a fact that the world is all mine even though it's much bigger than I think, them very contours that make up its circumference echo my impending footsteps. LIVE LIFE AND LIVE IT YOUR OWN WAY I SAY!!