I listened to tonight’s State of the Union address while driving in my car. Though I stay away from politics in my blog posts for the most part, I do want to mention something that I heard in this speech which heartened me very much.
Describing Kibera, the largest slum in
Building
We are a group of just 10, and have spent our 2nd day today working at Fafu, a school in Kibera begun by a Kenyan man named Simeon, a man of clear heart and vision who came to Kibera to help its children to Face the Future; Fafu
Work of the eyes is done, now
go and do heart work
on all the images imprisoned within you; for you
overpowered them: but even now you don’t know them.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
The morning after Christmas I awakened with the words in this title. The holiday with my daughters and their significant others had
Esther
In June of 2010 I was brought by Cross Cultural Thresholds on a trip to Kibera, the largest slum in Africa, outside of Nairobi in Kenya. They organized a large group from our country to help build a dormitory for an orphanage in Kibera. The building we put