Reflections By
Dr. Michael Johnson
NICE MORSEL
I personally take great comfort in the words of the Bible that the poor we will always have with us.
CAREFUL SPENDING
I carefully measure the money I share
I don't want my own cupboards to ever go bare,
I could actually give more
But there are so many poor
A CRYING MAN
I have been charged with the ministry of telling a lot of people a lot of bad news.
BITING DEATH
Why not bite death? It is easier to access and accept on an empty stomach.
HAMPERED BY HOPE
He was barely alive, if you can call it life. The energy acquired by each breath was just enough to take the next one.
THERE ARE THREE THINGS AFRICA DOES NOT NEED
I have worked in Kenya for 17 years and have spent periods of days to months in other African nations....
BEAT THE WAITER
One of my most embarrassing dates with my wife was when I had to try to beat the waiter.
GET OFF MY LAWN JESUS!
The whole family sat there. A man, a woman, a small child, together with their means of transport a donkey! Of course this was not the Jesus of the Bible.
FORGETFUL FATHER
He seems to have a defect
He seems to have a fault
I remind Him of my failures
But somehow He can’t recall
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SO SAFE, SO WARM
There is nothing like a rainy day That is filled with cold and wind That makes me want to stay inside And spend more time with Him
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I CANNOT WEEP
I cannot weep with you brothers as I have already spent my emotion. While home in the US for a few weeks, I continued to make appeals to my
kinsmen of the African diaspora. The responses I get are amazingly disappointing.
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COMPLACENCY, CONSPIRACY or COMPLICITY
As I lay in my $160 per night plush bed with six pillows, soft upholstered chairs, air conditioned room, with perfectly polished furnishings I really wondered to myself, is it that our culture is comfortable and complacent or should it be convicted of conspiracy and complicity?
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POVERTY WITHOUT OPTIONS
Poverty has been defined by some as a lack of options or alternatives.Should I send my children to school and lose valuable help on the farm, or keep them here so they can chase away the birds from the newly planted seeds?
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HOW DO THEY DIE?
They die with questions. Their deaths are a bit ugly. In fact, if your stomach is easily turned by graphic descriptions of suffering, don't read any further.
ODDS & ENDS & AIDS
Sure makes you feel good doesn't it? Imagine that we as a nation have made such great strides
to help the poor Africans afford HIV/AIDS medicines by drastically reducing the price to a point
cheaper than they can be bought in America.
