Prayer for those buying land

God, you are the owner of all that we see. You have created us to be care takers of your creation. At this time we submit to you the land which we wish to buy. Show us if it is apt and good for us. Reveal to us how we should buy and when we should make use of it. Holy Spirit, go before us and bless the land, that when we take possession we will be faithful stewards of what you have graciously given us.

Educate us Jesus as to how we should make use of the land. Guide your light to the land and inform us what to do. Help us God to make a commitment of giving this land to you and for your purpose. May we get lots of happiness from this and may wonderful memories rise from this land. We pray that finances may fall in place, commitments are met and ownership is transferred quickly.

Dear Lord, give us clear thoughts and ideas so that this land becomes special for us and our family and friends. May it lead to you blessing us thirty, sixty and hundred fold. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

“Death, who are you???”

Death, you can never claim victory
For I was dead the day I was born
When I was claimed by one, and kept away from another
Sanity was forced through, with insanity

Death, you can never scare me
For I was scared and scarred by all the injustice and the hatred
Scared numb that I am scared no more
Fulfilling and conforming not, to what I was ‘meant’ for

Death, you cannot take me away
For I was never accepted here anyway
Isolated and ‘islanded’ was I in existence
Pushed into a corner of subsistence

Death, don’t ever smile at me
For I was always smiled and laughed at
Seen was I a burden, a blot in the land of eden
A blot which could with a smile, be conveniently done away

Death, don’t draw any conclusions
And never write me away
For however I sway, I will have my way
In my land, I will, in all happiness lay



(This poem is dedicated to the people of the earth, who are deprived of land, humanity and basic amenities, in the name of development for a 'few'. It salutes the spirit of the people who fight on for their rights, even in the midst of the violence and injustice leashed out against them.)