Hope’s songs of redemption
The Making of a Unique Band
“By the rivers of Babylon I sat and wept,” thus sang the long- suffering Hebrews in their time of Babylonian captivity. They found themselves singing God’s song in a strange land. But though the song speaks of tears, it is actually a song of hope and redemption. The very act of singing it meant that the singers had in actual fact symbolically freed themselves. And, in these turbulent times we live in, we need songs and singers with enormous emotional power that can heal our grief, assuage our anxieties and allow us to hope for a better future. Hope Masike neKakuwe have it in them to do just this and more.
Hope, second from left, and members of Kakuwe
The dream and vision to form Kakuwe was born long before Hope decided to enrol at the Zimbabwe College of Music. Born with music in her blood, an independent feisty spirit, Hope was always someone who marched to a different drum, and so it was not surprising that when she decided to take her music seriously, she wanted to form a unique band with a different sound. Read more
I pray
I pray for tomorrow,
Cause today is a day to forget,
Riddled with hurt and misfortune,
My spirit is restless and frail,
I pray that things get better,
And my tears stop falling like rain,
Unable to deal with the sadness,
That torments my soul everyday,
I am not afraid
Today’s message is from Maria Woodworth-Etter.
He has shown me we are in the last days.
He has poured out his Spirit in all my meetings. Praise God, no matter how the Holy Ghost came, I knew the Lord was leading. How did I realize this? It is “Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord” (Zech. 4:6). Read more
