Purity

Crushed by the slaughter of Ethiopian Christians, (or at least mostly Christians) in Libya got me thinking how far people are willing to go for the truth they believe in. The big picture being the fact that the people in yellow outfit being slaughtered, I also had the curiosity of seeing the men in black with face masks on, ready to make use of the big silver knives on their hands and subsequently doing so.  In this short life of mine, I have seen people doing many cruel stuff but this is by far the cruelest thing I have ever witnessed! The natural reaction for such act being sad and broken (at least for me), these men had their heads up, celebrating of their "achievement"! It comes obvious that there was some serious brain-washing preceding this un-natural reaction. People can do what-ever they want to if they are convinced thoroughly. The things we think are obvious and natural are not necessarily universal, rather personal results of continuous brain-washing....

In medicine, we have a thing called referred pain. If you haven’t grasp is already, it’s when one part of your body gets sick and the pain gets diverted to another organ. The reason behind is the nerve supplying the affected part also supplies the other “un-involved” part; in simple words, one feels pain essentially on the “wrong spot!” Externally speaking, these organs seem healthy without the original pain being on site, but they feel the excruciating effects of the injury, even worse at times! I have taken the freedom to extend this concept to a greater scale. In a way, assuming what would have happened if the original insult happened on the referred site, whether the secondary part is protected from an injury of that scale? What if the acid burning the gastric mucosa was poured on the back; what if the effects of tuberculosis causing heart damage were applied to the shoulder? The truth, I think, is some of the secondary sites are less protected; the only thing keeping them from...

Once I joined my department in college, I started feeling like the path of life is already set for me. It always concerned that I can no longer change my lane. Well, honestly, to some extents it’s because I don’t want it to be. I really hated “getting stuck” somewhere, I want to go around and do whatever makes me happy! I wanted to live life to its max. With this in my mind, it bumps me thinking about the will of God. This kept happening until one day, the day I visited the Neonatology Ward. Just by looking, God addressed me to the depth of my heart. I couldn't stop starring at those little amazing creatures! These (the babies) were like half the size of the tiniest baby I could have ever imagined! I remember one, who is lying flat on his bed, enjoying his time in the new world! I went ahead and read psalms 139 that day where David says, you knew me even before I knew myself. God knows his plan for that tiny baby I looked at and his plans are so specific even though, for now, ...

In the years God has been called many things, wonderful maker, true lover, a good friend, and many more. Well, these all are true but there is one major character of God we often fail to grasp but we witness in our daily lives, the fact that God is a good teacher. Many times we seek for new things; we don't want to go through the path already set for us. We always ask” what's wrong with doing it this way? my way? “, and we all know the consequences we faced afterwards. I saw this movie the other day and it amazed me in some ironic way. The movie is basically about this couple who tried to avoid the so called marriage and parenting. They decided to skip marriage because their friends have gotten “too busy” after they had children. So what they do is they create a short cut out of marriage. As a grown up viewer, I was like “this will never work!” half way between the movie and I kept watching to see what devastating things are going to happen to them at last. First convin...

I have to admit looking into one of my fiend's laptop the other day with a five episode series entitled "grace vs. work ". I couldn't help on thinking that this issue is the contemporary christian heartbeat here in Jimma,,Ethiopia. On another occasion, while having coffee with my fellows, I noticed that the issue of grace of prophecy is another burning issue in the church. Honestly, its true that this grace, severely abused in Ethiopian protestant churches, is hurting many everyday. "Prophets" are telling their wills and wants under the cover of God's word this days.  "God spoke on to me,..." is becoming easily phrased as " can I get an Amen?!!"      With this toughts and many more not mentioned I got on thinking, is this what God really wants?   The bible says,in the book of Ephesians, God's plan is for the church in the end times is to get hold of all nations under his son, Jesus Christ. But today's  church  is more c...