Happy Birthday Karabo

Today is my birthday. :-) Woke up at 2am to a beautiful message from my husband! Sent at 12:04! And the whole day I was just blessed with messages and blessings from friends and God awed me through the pastor. :-) Thank you Lord Jesus :-)

:-) Getting my gift from my love in July when I go to Cape Town, :-) cant wait!!!

And do not forget to entertain strangers...

The text for the sermon today was from Genesis 18:1-8
The story were Abraham is sitting at the door of his tent and sees 3 strangers and runs to them and begs them to take a rest stop in his tent. They agree, he runs to Sarah and asks her to bake 3 cakes and Sarah doesn't even ask why, but bakes the cakes which Abraham gives to the gentlemen.

How many people would do that in this day and age? Invite not just any visitors, but strangers into their homes. I know it would be difficult for me to do that, I would think of all the evil that might befall me if I were to do such a thing! But the bible says some of us have entertained angels unawares. Surely people were still evil in those days, after all, the 3 men were on the way to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because of the evil in those cities! Why are we so afraid of man? Cant God take care of us? I am sure he can and I pray that my hubby and I can be like Abraham and Sarah, entertaining the strangers that God brings our way. I pray also for protection and the ability to discern those who will want to do us harm.

It was such a humble inspiring sermon..... A call to true Christian living, not just the lip service that we pay to Christianity.

Submission

Okay, so I am not too regular :-)!! So the other day I was reading an interesting article on submission.....in marriage and what it meant!
I have always thought I knew what submission was (I still do actually)! But I just thought it was interesting. The lady, was describing what she used to think was submission and I sort of thought of that was submission as well.
I was taught that the husband as the head of the home takes care of worship and devotion in the home and that its not the wife's duty to do that, that if she does that then the husband isnt doing his job!
How does this relate to the verse that we are different, we are all part of one body, that we have different gifts and talents? Why should we use the verse in Ephesians in exclusion to the whole bible?
Ephesians 5:22-24 says:²²For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. ²³For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the ^aSavior of his body, the church. ²⁴As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.

In the same was that the church submits to Christ, I am supposed to submit to my husband. In as much as I use my talents and gifts to the glory and edification of Christ, I am supposed to do the same to my husband. Love him, care for him, adore him and use my talents and gifts and resources for the advancement (in all spheres) of our family. This does not mean sitting and waiting for my hubby to 'bring home the bacon', it means meeting my husband by the gate (or wherever) and helping him carry the 'bacon' inside, cutting it while he rests, and making sure the different pieces last us long and they go where they are supposed to go! It means I don't keep quiet when I have something to say or an idea. Its a partnership, a loving partnership where both members give and take equally.

Marriage 101

Okay,

So I decided to start blogging about marriage :-). Where to start, where to start!?

What is marriage? Without being overly complicated (for I am really a simple chick), for me, marriage is a union of two people who love each other and want to share their dreams, vision, love with each other forever and ever with God leading and guiding both of you as to how to love each other more and care for each other more daily! :-) God is the glue in marriage really, :-) he provides the inspiration, the love, the ideas to keeping each other happy through it all.

One might think that I am not an expect seeing I am recently married, but for me, there wasnt really a transition from courting to engaged to marriage, no! :-) my baby has been consistent through it all and loved me ever so much (just thinking about him :-) puts a smile on my face). God has loved me ever so much and given me a rare and priceless gem in my husband! I want to serve God more by loving him more and more daily. We usually hear of the Proverbs 31 woman, I want to be more than that woman, and I know that God is going to help me be more than that woman.

I have 232 days to go before the 1st of our ceremonies, we are having 2 ceremonies to celebrate our marriage, one on the 5th of December 2010 in Jackalas No 1, Botswana and the last one on the 12th December 2010 in Gweru December. From tomorrow, I will be blogging more about my preparations for these 2 ceremonies and will try to put up references about any interesting stuff I find out

The couple :-)

:-) Me and my hubby. I love this man so so much

Lobola

Ok, my last post was labelled 'lobola', what exactly does that mean? In the African culture, when two people decide to get married, lobola/ dowry has to be paid by the man to the lady's family.
Most people argue that they are paying for their bride, but its really a token of appreciation that is meant to cement the relationship between two families. Its a token to say, I (as the man) appreciate the time, care that you have taken to care and teach my wife how to love me and take care of our family.

My lobola was loads of fun! I am Kalanga and getting married to a lovely Shona man, so the day was full of exciting fun! My favourite part was the part were I was covered and taken to my new 'family'.

Lobola

Recently married to Mr Farai Jhamba :-), on the 4th of April at Jackalas no 1 Village. :-) this blog is still like a solo project so i guess for now i can ramble on and on and just be!
I suppose i should start on marriage :-) seeing i am recently married. will upload a couple of pics and try to be regular to my blog