road near the Rift Valley, Kenya
Who would have thought that such quick and steep descent into raw evil could have happened, as it has in Kenya in the last few weeks? Some would argue that it's always been there - as it is everywhere else in the world, if only an inch or two beneath the surface of 'civility' - such violence born of poverty, greed, corruption, injustice, lusts and fears - all the kinds of things I find too often in my own heart.
The rift that goes right through Africa, the rift of evil that goes right through the universe, as Russian novelist Alexander Solzenhitzen use to point out, goes right smack through the centre of my own heart.
O that God would deliver us from the enemy within as well as from others circling without.
The rift that goes right through Africa, the rift of evil that goes right through the universe, as Russian novelist Alexander Solzenhitzen use to point out, goes right smack through the centre of my own heart.
O that God would deliver us from the enemy within as well as from others circling without.
