Category: life experience and life as it is
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“Define Church”
~ by kaka Lucas, 21 June 2022 Life has taught me to create heaven where I am. Society has taught me to grow where I am planted. I have taught myself to grow where I am planted even when it’s dry, for dryness is thatperiod before the rainy season comes. Meal times is the time…
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Real Presence
~ by kaka Lucas, 19th June 2022 Since I came to this parish, I have been treated so well that I am getting glued here. The cook makes breakfast and lunch and she makes sure we have dinner. On Saturdays, she makes a big pot of soup to feed the whole city. Red peas soup…
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MAKE A CALL TO GOD
~ kaka Lucas, 16th June 2022 Making calls and connecting with people has been made easy in our world today. You can just dial a number and in a minute, you are talking to someone in Europe. It’s been made so easy that you can now see them, only that you cannot touch them. Isn’t…
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SHARP WORD HURT
My Grandmother always cooked tasty food. But one day, she put a burnt pie in front of my Grandpa.Not just a little burnt, but black as coal.I waited to see what my Grandpa would say.But he just ate the pie n asked how my day was. Then i heard my Grand Mother apologize to him…
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ASANTE – THANK YOU
Thursday 19th May 2022 Apart from daily experience and movements from within that has led me to write blogs, reading has been one of the tools that has inspired me to write. It comes so freely sometime I cannot control it. Procrastination is a ‘thing’ as we all know and sometime I want to ignore…
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I CRIED BITTER SWEET TEARS
Tue, May 17th 2022 Even before the mass stated I was getting emotional. Tears kept wetting the blue mask I was wearing. The drums played and the flags were matched in. It felt different. My eyes couldn’t hold back the water that was gathering around it. I looked away in the distance so that no…
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‘HIS TIME IS THE BEST’
~ by kaka Lucas, Tue, 17th May 2022, One year ago, if you were to tell me it will happen the way it occurred last Sunday I would have hysterically laughed at you. If you were to tell me people would gather to celebrate with me, I probably would have considered you to be a…
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Heavenly Room 2
~ by kaka Lucas, 15th May 2022 I like my new room. It is big enough, nice comfortable bed, a study table, a big mirror that allows me to see Me every morning. A small beautiful bathroom that allows me to just be without fear someone will bounce in when I am doing my soloist…
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DEEP FRIENDS, EVERLASTING FRIENDSHIPS
~ kaka Lucas, Fri. 29 April Being a missionary and Living in a foreign land I have been “forced”to make friends. Making friends isn’t a problem though since I am a Capricorn. But being both introverted and extroverted it can sometimes be challenging. I will not lie to you, I have met some great persons…
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CHERISH THE ORDINARY
~ by Kaka Lucas, 3rd May 2022 As I enjoy my retreat, I cannot ignore the urge to write. Second day and I have written at least five articles. It’s amazing feeling being away from my room, my comfortable sofa in the rectory. I miss my companion in the rectory and our beloved cook, but…