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AFRIKA IS GOD'S

L I F E

LIVING IN FATHER’S EXPRESSION

The Heart of

K I N DNE S S

Samuel Phillips

In fact, kindness is first, a heart that sees, feels,

understands others as it sees, feels and understand

itself, before an external act is done.

indness is that passion or drive on the inside that makes a person go out of their way to make someone else
feel wanted, appreciated and worth sharing love with. Kindness is a very sweet and good-hearted spirit that
rejoices when acts of genuine giving and sharing is done. And she always gives her elixir of joy to both the
Kgiver and the receiver, especially the giver. And that’s why it is more blessed to give than to receive.
There is a profound joy and excitement that encircles a person like a cloud of light and suffuses them with a good feel-
ing when they give of themselves to put joy on the faces of others. It is divine, spiritual, sweet, encouraging and most
importantly, it is very healthy.
But there are those who are destined for destruction even though they front acts of kindness which are nothing but
charades for covering up the other negative things that they are really involved in. This kind of kindness has been the
evil that has undermined Afrika for ages. Foreign organizations come to Afrika bearing the mythical golden trays of
kindness through uncountable charity groups but which we keep finding out are just fronts and distractions from the
real stealing going on at the back.
The following is an excerpt from a lecture given by Mallence Bart Williams in 2015 (TEDxBerlin), and it clearly

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