In her dreams, “Djinns are very mischievous and tricky, my liege. A maiden like Reem can’t be entrusted with one”. The shaman’s words made her father nervous. She could see it in his eyes. He was worried about her, about the city, and about their legacy. The elder shaman dressed in rugged green cloth, a pointy yellow-green hat, and held an oak-tree scepter like any other wizard Reem had seen before. This particular old man was unfamiliar. Perhaps he came from a distant village after hearing the news, and perhaps that is what troubled her lord father the most. Enemies now know that his daughter possesses a dangerous weapon. A djinn that will fulfill all her desires and dreams if she manages to articulate her wishes in three separate commands, …show more content…
He had ordered his guard to bolster defenses around the city borders and double their numbers around the Al-areen but even that seemed to be not enough to put his mind to rest. To add to his troubles, this shaman was suggesting that Reem might get mislead by the djinn. She has to choose just the perfect words for her wishes or the devious djinn will find a way to twist their meanings and turn them into chronix curses. The thought made the monarch swallow hard and twitch in his seat. In reality, he had nothing to do about it. The djinn was Reem’s to command. If he tried seizing it from his daughter, she might get angry and use it against him. Legends passed the tales of how people went crazy to possess the ring, even going as far as murdering their families. “Give it to me, your grace, and I will make certain the world is safe from his evils”. He can’t trust this wizard with the ring either. What if he turns to be an enemy spy? Also, how is this going to affect his daughter’s marriage? After she married Faris, she and her belongings are now part of Faris’s household. He couldn’t afford giving another village, albeit an ally, such a powerful instrument. “I’ll take care of it myself. See to it that everyone in your village knows that the ring is no more of a threat”. The king’s words were sincere, and his voice was firm. Though deep down he knew he was about to make one extremely dangerous risk. Reem watched from the side of the room behind a curtain, and she bit her lips wondering what her father might do about her little pet. Present
“You will surely grant and concede to me, that nothing more pernicious and fearful can happen to anyone than the loss of his soul.” (38).
" Well apparently the kingdoms are fighting, Lord Crailimor 's soldiers killed a family cause they couldn 't pay their taxes and Lord Crailimor 's praised them for it " she says as she looks at me. I can feel my face go red, I can hear my heart beating. My blood is boiling now.. If war is what he wants we will give it to him, we start by seeing Lord Williamson in the morning.
Of Water and the Spirit is more than simply an account of Malidoma's life and initiation, it is a detailed description of the worldview of a Dagara man, who is forcibly subjected to traditional Western thought for fifteen years and then returns to his home physically, at first, but spiritually only once he goes through initiation, or what the Dagara call the Baar. Malidoma's recount of his story, being very similar to the storytelling of an African Griot, uses amazing imagery that allows the listener to sincerely experience his thoughts and actions and the things he sees, hears, and feels throughout his early life up to now.
“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
Experiencing new worlds and encountering new dilemmas, magic, wisdom, truth: all of these elements characterizes the context of the book Of Water and Spirit by Malidona Patrice Some. Here, magic and everyday life come to an affinity, and respect and rituals are necessary tools to survive. The author portrays the Dagara culture in a very specific way. This culture makes no differentiation between what is natural, or "normal", and what is supernatural, or magical. Ancestors compound the core of communities and individuals. These higher beings are present in ordinary life activities and actions. They constitute the connection between this world and another.
‘The care of each man’s soul, and of the things of heaven… is left entirely to every man’s self’
Around the crown: "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men - Luke, chapter II, verse 14."
I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do go on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds, their ailing bodies? … Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. … But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? The pray before You! They praise Your name! … I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man.” (Wiesel
Piper, J. (2002, September 22). The Mighty and Merciful Message of Romans 1-8. Retrieved May 5, 2014, from desiring God: http://www.desiringgod.org/sermons/the-mighty-and-merciful-message-of-romans-1-8
...so holds all things in his power, so rules by his authority and will, so governs by his wisdom, that nothing can befall except he determine it. Moreover, it comforts him to know that he has been received into God's safekeeping and entrusted to the care of his angels, and that neither water, nor fire, nor iron can harm him, except so far as it pleases God as governor to give them occasion. Thus indeed the psalm sings: "For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. Under his wings will he protect you, and in his pinions you will have assurance; his truth will be your shield. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the flying arrow by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at midday" (Calvin 224).
" Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God."
The Lord's Prayer Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."
“I have not come to judge the world, but to teach them in humility and to save them, and to create an example for my disciples, so that they will do as I do.”
Even after all these years of dreaming I am still dumbfounded by the intricacy and originality of the "props" that lie scattered across the dream stage. One of my dreams, for instance, featured a carefully crafted letter from a past love which included a map of the Pacific Coast near Seattle with a cardboard sailing ship that slowly sailed south by southwest as I lifted the page.