Taize

Trip Start Jun 20, 2008

Trip End Jul 16, 2008

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Jon and Susan's place

(Nairobi hotels)

Flag of Kenya Nairobi, Kenya
Sunday, June 29, 2008

Taize prayer in Africa. There will be an ecumenical Taize youth meeting in Nairobi in November. But as we in Nairobi now and not then, we visited Mji wa Furaha (house of happiness) to join the kenyans in the prayer.

I did not realize they are that religious. They can quote the Bible, recite the passages... And some of them sound very rigid in comparison even with our priests (they are more flexible). Probably they still live the way missionaries brought it without trying too much to modernize it.

But as I say, the religiousness is an interesting phenomena. You see orphans drawning peacefully in their prayers and then you look at their eyes, and see the optimism.

People sound happy there... As soon as they start singing, you feel it straight away. They love it. And you fall in love with it. And even they are not rich here, they sound much more happy than those kids back to UK with home cinema and people with the latest cars... I dont want to generalize it, but the impression is this.

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