THESE THREE REMAIN

When all is done, all is accomplished, all is pursued, there is a reason why it is written that these are the THREE that matter. There is a reason why these are the things that remain forever. 

"Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love--and the greatest of these is love." - 1 Corinthians 13:13

Our faith is more precious than gold, it gets tested, so we better esteem faith more than gold. Would it not be great to be known as a faith digger than a gold digger? Seeing that faith is more valuable than gold? Just a thought.

Faith - Jesus is the author and finisher/perfector of our faith.
Hope - hope gets tested in perseverance. God calls Himself the God of Hope. That tells you something about Hope. Hope is pretty big!
Love - we know that love matters because without love whatever we accomplish is burnt in the fire if it is without love, it is simply not beautiful, not acceptable, not worthy.

Thoughts on HOPE:

Romans 5 tells us that Hope is a matter of CHARACTER. I never realised that. Hope is serious. If you think about it, it takes a whole lot of character to keep your hope up! Giving up and letting go of your hope is an easier option. You quickly releave yourself from possible disappointments. Hope requires persisting in the hope, hope against hope as described by Romans 4.

 "Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed..." - Romans 4:18

Romans 5 lists the order like this. 

# 1 SUFFER

# 2 PERSEVERE

# 3 CHARACTER

# 4 HOPE

Thus number 4 is achieved as a result of being able to go through the others. That said, one needs hope when they are suffering, in order to overcome suffering. But I am wrong, it is joy that takes you through suffering. James 1 says "Count it all joy when you go through various trials, knowing the testing of your faith produces patience."

Hebrews 12 says "For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross."

These three remain, Faith, Hope, Love.
I wondered why faith came before hope. Faith enables you to keep your hopes up, when you have hope it means that your faith is going through the fire and it is being tested and refined and you are gaining character to keep going and keep hoping.

So let us keep our hopes UP! God enables us!

The Voice

Let it cry aloud 

Let it be heard

Let it sing

Release the voice

Release the sound of freedom

Let it ring in the streets

Let it be heard

Cry aloud

Call wisdom

Recall joy

Release the Voice

Let it rule us once more

Rule us with freedom

With Joy 

With singing

It is time for the true voice 

The Voice of voices

Speaking among a clutter 

of billions of vices pretending 

to be voices speaking at once

Voice of the sound of many waters be found 

Confound the learned with Your wisdom and grace

The Nunnery Wedding

I was one of four young ladies

Changing a car tyre for the first time

As your marriage set us in motion

Crossing boarders for the first time

When our passports were stamped

We could not say that we were fully outside of our country

Since we had never been more inside our Mzantsi

Lesotho Mountains curtaining our eyes from the sight of our provinces

Preventing our ears from hearing the noises of our cultures

Creating the perfect setting for intimacy

We forgot our lives

We were in a new land

Trying to communicate

Lost in Sesotho

The wedding took place at the Nunnery

Old non-smiling humble nuns looking on

Creating an unreal serene atmosphere

Fortunately the wedding priest was no nun

Sprowson announced Mthi and Lite man and wife

A few Sotho people responded in song

A song so silent we could have been at a funeral

South Africans took over

Fair enough nuns and marriage never do meet

Yet this day the nunnery would know the sound of wedding celebrations

In an instance Basotho land became Xhosa land

Singing, dancing, rejoicing fearlessly

With pride we boasted about the bride

We showed off the brilliance of the groom

I remember the night as though it were yesterday

Darkness fell that night yet unable to quiet our singing

Stars shone like angel eyes looking through the curtains of heaven

Watching and in awe of our uncontainable rejoicing, dancing and singing

Elation covered us like the blankets of the Basotho people

I could not recall anything of journeying back

What remains in memory is only happiness

That had me believe that I floated back

Leaving the humble world of nuns

In total wedding bliss

I sometimes wonder

If that nunnery

Still stands

Quietly

Or if our songs

Still loom over that night sky

While angel eyes testify

Proclaiming
Eternal wedding

Celebrations

© siki dlanga

25 September 2012 for Mthi and Lite Adonis on their Anniversary

Shakespeare In Love vs Siki in Love

A crazy joyous love adventure is completely next. Sometimes you have to go on an external journey to find the internal journey. It is going to be as explosive as a volcano. It is going to be deeper than the depths of the ocean. It is going to be wide and spacious it will be so playful and bring such freedom. It is going to be so high it is going to be crazy joyous. It is going to be long because it will be forever. It is going to be worth giving up everything for because it will be the most valuable treasure. It is going to be so good and juicy you will taste it from afar. Yes I literally have waited my whole life for it. It is everything or nothing at all. I have done the nothing at all, now it is time for everything.

“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No! Not the artful postures of love, but love that overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love as there has never been in a play. I will have love.”

—	Viola de Lesseps, Shakespeare In Love

We can do with love that brings peace. Yes to love that has never been in a play but let it not overthrow life let it create life anew. I have not come across a film with more beautiful poetry however, I have seen enough riots in my country to last centuries. I want a love so captivating that it will stop wars that have been carrying on for centuries.