It’s wonderful that your heartfelt work will be shared. The beautiful, tragic, and hopeful lives of survival and strength that you carry forward…. how awesome you amplify their voices.
Thank you…

Kate

We the Louw family feel so blessed to be part of your South African family. You and your family have entered our lives and I feel so sad knowing that our time together will be over soon. I know God will keep this friendship save and that this is only a start of a long family relationship. Good luck with your sabbatical and after reading your work-30years30lives on the website I feel honoured and bless to know such a remarkable and phenominal women like you.

Love
Edwina

Have you read Abraham Heschel’s “The Prophets”? “Restorer of Streets,” in particular, reminded me of his daughter’s words in her forward:
“‘What manner of man is the prophet?’ asks my father in the opening pages of ‘The Prophets.’ A person of agony, whose ‘life and soul are at stake in what he says,’ yet who is also able to perceive ‘the silent sigh’ of human anguish. In the common imagination, we think of prophets as people who foretell the future, who warn of divine punishment for sin, who demand social justice. Such moderation fails to understand that ‘God is raging in the prophet’s words.’ While we may all criticize injustices, they remain tolerable, while to the prophet ‘injustice assumes almost cosmic proportions.’ Why the indignation, the outrage? Is the prophet’s reaction not out of proportion?

“Yet it is precisely the passion of the prophet that is central. For my father, the importance of prophecy lies not only in the message, but in the role of the prophet as a witness, someone who is able to make God audible and to reveal not only God’s will, but inner life. To be a prophet, he writes, is to be in fellowship with the feelings of God, to experience communion with the divine consciousness. The prophet hears God’s voice and looks at the world from God’s perspective…. [T]he prophets’ experience of God…is characterized as a communion with the divine consciousness, a sympathy with divine pathos, a deep concern by God for humanity.”

Thank you for this essay, which shines with the light of your own prophetic gift, and clarifies with sharp focus that for which God is concerned in our world today.

I take a similar philosophic stance in conversation, yet that philosophy is left behind when it’s time to purchase goods and make other choices in my life. It’s not that I choose to ignore the human cost of those who manufactured the product I’m pulling off the shelf, rather I’ve never built a bridge between my philosophy and my actions. This posting has opened my eyes to the fact that, in reality, I’m not all that different than those I debate with. That’s something I plan to work on.

Thanks for your postings.

I’m so glad that you included me in this email. It’s very exciting and I wish you all safe, fun, profound travels. My family and I are traveling to South Africa and Malawi this August but, alas, we’re not going to Cape Town. Please keep me aprised of your work. You rock!

Peace+
Kelli

My thoughts and prayers will be traveling with you! I will miss you while you are gone, but know that I will continue to work with students to obtain additional funds for food parcels. Your work on campus and now learning more about you and this project through this website have inspired me!

Be Well My Friend!
Barbara