Proud witness/Auntie/Mmane Priscilla 02/Nov/2025
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Sunday, 21 September 2025
Psalm 91
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.[a]
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refugeand my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
3 Surely he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.
9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angelsconcerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14 “Because he[b] loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”
More heavy extremes…
Father,
your daughter finds herself,
in the wretched middle of very heavy extremes,
on the one hand,
she contends with the evils she harbours,
on the other,
the lady embraces your presence in fervent prayer.
Yes…
I can hear your wind blowing,
but my soul is immature,
I cannot receive you nor your heavy creeds,
Rather, incessant relapses
into the hellish den - abound
Deliver me from this wilderness,
As I knock, and beseech you,
to open the door for me, the wretched sinner,
May you bless this attempt at repentance,
wash my shame with the blood of Yeshua of Nazareth,
By his stripes, consider me an earnest seeker of your presence,
& May your embrace be my refuge and rampart.
And in my coming or going,
in the rushed busyness of life,
Should those fowlers dare bait
me with their many snares,
In your name, may I “trample the Lion & cobra”
and may I always dwell there,
In your refuge,
safe from the contemptuous extreme
through fervent prayer & earnest resolve,
In Jesus Christ’s name …
Psalm 91
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
To Olo Mongale
she was here,
the girl was here.
mmmh…
Looks staunch, looks like courage, she was saying : it actually is war.
wrangling madness in a car.
Fighting.
Strong.
Eventually falling,
…Yhoo Olo’
she was here…
and warned women:
of the insufficiency of even perfect caution…
& the predatory tendencies of their sauve madness…
I have nothing to say,
But to observe, come to anger & sit here…
& protest through soft text,
about the fault in the masculine,
women remain receivers of their many perpetrations,
from even men beloved of the loudest merit, …
These sauve monsters were/are brandishing relentless war,
inciting unimaginable grief…
And they sit there,
with many entitled to the very life they extinguish in women
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many mental extremes abound here…
every year, history recycles the trauma,
and we’ve been crying over these injustices,
like harassed skeletons in the Republic
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…I pray there’s a collective masculine urge
to resolve the crises arriving with the violence they perpetrate…
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& that the feminine voice may continue to rise,
with even more wailing TO GOD! TO GOD!
& in our mutual (feminine) grief …
to persist in our praying,
To herald comfort for even our children,
For a better South Africa & a better world…
***sigh***
…& even in this righteous delusion
and truly toxic uncertainty
of a nation under masculine siege,
I hope,
…we herald (pray) anyway ✊🏿
Oh! that we keep on praying!
To Modimo Olorato!
Rest in peace Olorato Mongale ❤️
Sunday, 20 October 2024
Gracious tempest
Like hypocrites at the synagogue,
the heart is extremely wearied
by its moral performance,
at the pews, I carry the
the obedience of troubled evils
measuring the worthiness of my tired attempts ,
crying & wishing that by my concerted olympics,
and the resume of my prudish heart
I may be vindicated into the heavenly paradise.
At the centre of my supplications:
My moral strength &
many delusions of beauty…
Rescue my heart,
heal it from its schemes of salvation,
and in prayer,
by your deep compassion for me,
Immerse my growth,
Strictly & only in Christ…
and when I relapse again,
with disproportionate mourning over
the errors of my heart,
touch me tenderly in my conscience,
encourage me to achieve not the moral ambition of the will (power)
but cause me to find you again
in quiet repentance & grace,
and with every sobering encounter,
elevate my wisdom of YOU,
So I may live the rest of my days,
in reverent fear.
From trial to trial,
grief to grief,
death to death,
Gracious tempest,
I am your child,
Saved, forever & always,
in your name, and your name alone.
Sunday, 22 September 2024
God’s prodigal
the tides are sweeping over your child,
she gives herself to the currents,
fights no more,
the unimaginable might
of the waters…
For sweet reprieves promised her at the pews,
she will no longer extend her hands,
the child has hoped, and hoped enough
against many odds…
she grieves the rescinding of the heavenly path:
her prayerlessness…
but she no longer wishes to
mind the tempers of the Word
and so she releases…
goes away…
and resides further into the empty,
opening the void more & more…
mourning the absence of a God she loves,
convicted by the gloating of many enemies,
dead & banished from the light.
but she returns ever tired, again & again to Throne
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And by ordained luck,
won in Golgotha,
to one day,
stand in the eternal feast,
amongst angels & the saints,
praising the Nazarene
for the promised salvation,
the full presence of the trinity,
& the accusation of none…
