Garcia, Miguel Angel Posadas (2002) The Sick and their Experience of God, Based in the Slum of Kibera. Undergraduate thesis, Tangaza College.
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Abstract
"The sick are the poorest people among the poor." This is what I have seen in the "slum " of Kibera. I started to do my apostolate in Kibera in September of 2000. At the beginning, I began by accompanying one of my Religious Brothers in visiting the sick. I felt "lost " because of the language. I felt a great challenge facing me because I saw many sick people and I could not say anything to them neither I could understand them. When I was able to express myself in Kiswahili, I faced yet another challenge : How do I express to these sick people that God is a Father to them? Many of them had been suffering for a long time; and it was not easy for me to tell them "God loves you". Sometimes I saw them suffering very much and I could say nothing to help them. I felt that my prayer at those times was dry. As I was getting along, I started to discover something: I found many sick who really trusted in God. They started to talk about God in the midst of their suffering. I said to myself: "These people, in spite of their suffering, can experience God." But one day, I asked myself a question. "Is it in spite of or because of their suffering that sick people experience God? This question moved me to want to become closer to the sick in order to find an answer. I have discovered that many sick people experience God simply and clearly because of their suffering. They undergo a process of purification through questions and feelings that they ask themselves about their situation. They find that they have a need to depend upon someone outside of themselves to endure their suffering.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity |
| Divisions: | Afro-Christiana |
| Depositing User: | JHI Africa |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2017 11:40 |
| Last Modified: | 16 May 2018 06:58 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/3021 |
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