Who picks the pieces?

Broken and still discovering the ropes with JC, one thing is for sure; This is not a once and for all deal but it is a process. People come in and out of your life, some once some several times and through it all it is your response to them that determines whether the brokenness proliferates or diminishes.
My birthday yesterday was a case in hand. Though hurting physically 'plusier' FB birthday wishes and love made me almost forget my pain killers. God does indeed use people to patch us up...

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Choking Communities

Are you Choking Communities? How do you view and speak about otherness, when in angst, burnout or culture shock? Unknown or hidden prejudice easily comes to the surface when pressure builds up in Intercultural settings. Southern hemisphere residents reference colonialism when faced with any form of presumptuous and condescending superiority. Some expats , in asserting their presumed superior paradigms , refer derogatorily to ‘inner city’ or ‘third world’ paradigms. I once heard a tired and frustrated Caucasian missionary talk of ‘ Negroids ’ in Africa. Though venting in anger, her desire to put them in ‘their place’ was evident . I doubt she was aware of dominionism’s effect on her worldview and the cognitive dissonance lived out. This ‘power over’ approach is exhibited when academics refer to lack of training to "Band-Aid" dilemmas while skilled but nonacademic experts ...

Loose them N Let them Go! Prophetic ponderings in times of Crisis

As N’djamena smoldered in civil unrest and as Nairobi burnt in tribal strife, some well meaning Missionaries and believers sent me 'interesting emails;' Some claimed that the chaos were the result of the 'eschatological and escapist gospel of salvation and not the transformational gospel of the kingdom). Others lamented our poor Kenya's lack of discipleship that was evidenced by the post election violence . They all wondered what’s was wrong with Africans either in western condescension or global south hopelessness of inferiority? Etc… I started pondering… An outreach team of well-meaning Europe ‘trained’ students wanted to play games with kids because teaching the local church on 'Gods Character and Nature' was not ministry’. A westerner that recently graduated from our Bible School confessed he didn’t feel he could release his ministry to locals because; a) They would mess up and lose it's Christian aspec...

Garage Time

My Toyota Station Wagon is getting patched up (read Panel Beating / Repair). I don't feel any different after Bilateral Hernia repair on 31st Dec & Jaw - Bone / Gum grafting on Monday the 9th Feb 09. Seems everything is a work in progress. Wear & Tear tells of time gone by... Fun & distress, smooth highways & bumpy roads. Greatest patchwork though is the one done to my heart when I recognized my brokenness and emptiness when I didn't know who, what, whom, when, where, why etc... NOW I am discovering with JC. From day one the work continues... sometimes bad fundis murk it up but when I go back to the Manufacturers manual... well watch this space Garage Time

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