Let it rain, may blessings come
A children’s playful rhyme has the following words, “mvura naya-naya tidye mupunga” which means , “let it rain so that we may have rice to eat”, and in my opinion it illustrates the vast importance of water in agriculture. At the onset of the rain season a frequent sight is of children holding hands and dancing round and round in a circle as they look up expectantly into the sky, singing this rhyme. In Zimbabwe the rice crop in grown in a muddy field - “mudoro”. Read more
1440 hrs- Someone heard my prayer
As if to answer my prayer about the heat, the clouds rolled in- looking angrier than the sun. Now it’s raining in Harare. Thank you God.
Now, how about that political and economic heat…
Could I have a push please
A man and his wife are awakened at 3 o’clock in the
morning by a loud pounding on the door.
The man gets up and goes to the door where a drunken stranger, standing in the pouring rain, is asking for a push.
“Not a chance,” says the husband, “It is three o’clock in the morning.”
He slams the door and returns to bed. “Who was that?” asked his wife.
“Just some drunk guy asking for a push,” he answers.
“Did you help him?” she asks. Read more
