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The Hermit and the Mothers Crossing

After playing devils advocate in the beautification of the nun who had played mother to many.. given hope to many.. the poverty struck peoples the hermit had just made his submission.. to the Holy see..the hermit is now on a river bank A bank where ages gone slave masters beat tortured their own people into forced labor.. many a servant perished on this very river bank at the hand of their cruel masters.. tortured.. Our hermit sat on this huge Rock by the river Upon that rock he saw in a vision.. the past and he understood his purpose.. rising up with extraordinary strength.. carried huge rock across the river... never minding the poisonous river serpents or the vile shadows emerging On the other bank the hermit put the huge boulder now mother you have a place to sit and rest... muttered the hermit and no more do you need cry the sacred mother has a place to rest and faith... faith in the Supreme Merciful creator has gained foot. Faith has gained foot in a dark land where the cruel masters boasted they would reign forever.. till eternity over the land but i bet they failed to realize.... or calculate on the hermit on a hermit in the future undoing their evil by rooting for good did i say he was playing devils advocate for a nun of the church

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Date: 6/10/2015 11:00:00 AM
Ok as i was reading i was cheering because the good won over the evil. Which is the best victory. But the last line got me confused. Am like, did i miss somethin? Is there a twist? Nevertheless i enjoyed reading this
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Njeri Hunjeri
Date: 6/11/2015 1:27:00 AM
And now i understand. Thank u
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Lewis Nyaga
Date: 6/11/2015 12:02:00 AM
Thanks Njeri, for gracing my page with your visit... a devils advocate in the beautification process tries to bring to light any wrong doing on part of the individual being made a saint... his work is to show cause why the person shouldn't be made a saint... the advocate is usually a devoted cleric of the church///thanks hugs and Blessings

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