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Thursday, May 17, 2007
To see better  a minor eye operation will be performed and I will be away from dear Katutura and my dear friends until June 3rd. I will return seeing better, loving more and keeping in touch in the meantime through a loving daily prayer for each of you passing by Katutura! Sunday, April 29, 2007
Dear friends, you are all in my heart and in my prayer. If I wrote seldom in English, the reason is my own limitation in energy, not in the desire to share with all a few life experiences, a few thoughts, a prayer! I have read and keep reading the thought provoking, action provoking book "Jesus Today" A spirituality of radical freedom. "Jesus Today" is becoming, naturally enough, part of my feelings and reflecting! I give first the reference of Albert's book: Jesus Today A Spirituality of Radical Freedom Albert Nolan Orbis Books 08/06 Paperback $16.00 ISBN: 1570756724  Here you find the link that will tell you more than I could about the content of the book. I am glad to have lived long enough to be able to read what I, and many others feel or have felt, about Jesus and could not express it! Please share with me what you think, if you wish... Saturday, March 17, 2007
17th March 2007 Saint Patrick’s Day  It is a very happy remembrance: Saint Patrick’s Day in South Africa! It was a school holiday. With my Irish fellow Sisters, with the people, we rejoiced and we prayed and we sang ... Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger. And again Hail glorious Saint Patrick dear Saint of our Isle Hail, glorious Saint Patrick, dear saint of our Isle, On us thy poor children bestow a sweet smile; And now thou art high in the mansions above, On Erin's green valleys look down in thy love. Happy feast to all my beloved irish friends all the world over !  Thursday, March 01, 2007
To pray and to work for justice go together!!!  Jesus, the jewish peasant, so close to the people, prayed in the language that all could understand, it was a dialect called “aramaic” Hearing the words pronounced is like a music flowing down to my very soul from Him who dwell and prays in me in us… We can listen to him and pray with him, and our prayer can and ought to be people driven and Creator centred for we are, today busy creating, continuing God’s work of creation, the best we can! Our prayer has the ring of actuality… The thirst for water when rain is so slow to come… and we are “as the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God”. Psalm 42: 1-2… We are part of nature thirsting for Living water Sunday, February 25, 2007
This Sunday February 2007 as I walked leisurely towards Bois-Cerf, to pray, Joan Baez' voice didn’t leave me as some thirty, forty years back when she was singing  Just a little Boy… Just a little rain falling all around, The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound, Just a little rain, just a little rain, What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain, The gentle rain that falls for years. And the grass is gone, The boy disappears, And rain keeps falling like helpless tears, And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky, The leaves pat their hands as the breeze blows by, Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye, What have they done to the rain?  Just a little boy standing in the rain, The gentle rain that falls for years. And the grass is gone, The boy disappears, And rain keeps falling like helpless tears, And what have they done to the rain? Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds ... "Just a Little Rain." People now think of this as a song about acid rain, but it was originally written as part of a campaign to stop aboveground nuclear testing, which was putting strontium-90 in the air, where it was washed down by the rain, got into the soil and thence to the grass, which was eaten by cows. When children drank the cows’ milk the strontium-90, chemically similar to calcium but radioactive, was deposited in their bones. Mothers saved their children’s baby teeth and sent them in to be tested by scientists who indeed found elevated levels of strontium-90 in their teeth. A year after this song was written, President Kennedy signed the treaty against aboveground testing. Thursday, January 04, 2007
Blessed New Year 2007 Really time slips between our fingers and its gone! We can't hold it even to greet Friends, People we love so. Friends and people who loves us we know. It is the 4th January 2007 here in CH. On 31st December 2006 my sister, born in 1916, went to God one quarter of an hour before we could say good-bye. She slipped away just like that still wanting to get there before the new yearbegins! On her own!  New year: 2007. It is now facing us and we have to make the best of it, to live through it, to build God's "kingdom" of peace through justice! What a job... Amongts other, I am quite sure that Malvina Reynolds, Joan Baez and old friends permit me to make known, without any lucrative intent, what soever, their wisdom in the song we used to sing in the sixties in Cape Town: Oh what have they done to the rain? what have they done to the air? what have they done to the stuff of our planet? what a task ahead for us in 2007 to save what remains to be salvaged on our beloved world! Just to survive... Just a little rain falling all around, The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound, Just a little rain, just a little rain, What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain, The gentle rain that falls for years. And the grass is gone, The boy disappears, And rain keeps falling like helpless tears, And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky, The leaves pat their hands as the breeze blows by, Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye, What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain, The gentle rain that falls for years. And the grass is gone, The boy disappears, And rain keeps falling like helpless tears, And what have they done to the rain?  Dear little boy, we love you. You are a million boys and girls! |