![]() With some families having to wait days for a proper meal, these initiatives play such a vital role in ensuring that our communities are looked after. Young and old queue for these meals twice a week, sometimes three times a week if they are lucky. While some offer one big meal a day, others offer a small lunch to the children and a dry/raw food parcel in the late afternoons for families to collect and cook at home. In the past week alone we have contributed to the hand out of 5070 parcels across the various Soup Kitchens. These Soup Kitchens have come under immense pressure since the breakout of Covid19, as the breadwinners of families become unemployed. The Swartland Group noticed the urgency of becoming involved with the feeding schemes in the Atlantis and Moorreesburg areas. ![]() In the wonderful spirit of South African Ubuntu, business and individuals have been coming together to help ease one of these hardships, which is most probably one of the worst hunger. The impact of lockdown has been devastating on us all, but most of all on the most vulnerable in our communities. Or will we make live Ubuntu.The belief in a universal bond of sharing, that connects all of humanity Ubuntu. The full potential our humanity is a most satisfying bi product. Peace in our little country is not all that is at stake. Hibernation sometimes 'hangs' infinitely. Restoring a WIFI network connection takes minutes from hibernation. I found some mention of adding i915.enablepsr0 in the grub loader, but this did not solve the problem. If we stay in our own corners, communities, theologies and stories we miss the fullness of who we can be. Screen flickers - just with normal usage the brightness of the screen changes regularly. ![]() ![]() Profound and so applicable to our own unique divisions in Ireland. In tending to them, we will be better off ourselves. One part of the community can't thrive truly while the other part of the community is in the dirt. Bono says, "Essentially, what it means is 'I am because we are.' And it's about the interdependence, how we need each other and we have a stake in each other. U2 singer Bono has said that Archbishop Desmond Tutu had introduced him to the idea of Ubuntu. In the connection with God and community we are. We not keep the laws of God we find the secret to our full humanity. "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" In this Jesus told us that all the law of God could be summed up in this. Now there is a perfect definition of that Ubuntu thing.īeing a Presbyterian minister from Ballymena I needed to ask was Ubuntu Biblical and I found that it was. Then a few months later many of us had gathered again, this time to listen on the day of its release the U2 album How Through other people.” “I cannot be fully human without you.” “I can only be me through you.” “A person is a person They always followed it with a definition and by the end of our trip we compared notes to work out what this poetic word meant. From the plush offices of the International Centre For Transitional Justice to a humble township Church we heard everyone claim the Xhosa word Ubuntu. Many issues in South Africa that need resolved BUT how did such a divided nation avoid the blood bath of a vicious civil war. How did South Africa hold itself together after Apartheid. We were in South Africa thinking about Reconciliation. (I misunderstood the number of Thoughts For The Day I had on BBC Radio Ulster and this was the extra one! It is a remix of other blogs BUT a good one I think.
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