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Village Marriage Committee & other poems
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when we look at ordinary life closely enough to discover extraordinary questions?
Village Marriage Committee is a thought-provoking and humorous poetic collection of stories, reflections, observations, and life lessons drawn from faith, family, relationships, politics, culture, marriage, money, leadership, and everyday human experience.
The book begins with a simple but challenging question: What if the story we have been told is not the whole story? From there, the journey moves in many directions. You will encounter reflections on choosing yourself, overcoming barriers, money and generosity, aging and neglect, life abroad, political ambition, leadership, technology, marriage, church life, fatherhood, motherhood, family responsibility, and faith.
Some stories will make you laugh. Others will make you uncomfortable. Some will remind you of your home area, your family, your church, your marriage, your workplace, or the political conversations you have heard around the table. And then there is the humor. Because sometimes the truth becomes easier to understand when we laugh at ourselves.
Village Marriage Committee does not attempt to provide easy answers to every problem. Instead, it asks readers to pause, question assumptions, examine human behavior, and see familiar situations from another angle.
It is a book about people. People who give. People who receive. People who love. People who fail. People who lead. People who struggle. And people who are still learning what it means to live wisely.
If you enjoy African stories, Christian reflections, social commentary, marriage and family wisdom, humor, personal observations, and thought-provoking conversations about life, this collection offers something to make you laugh, something to make you think, and perhaps something to make you change.
Read the stories. Enjoy the humor. Question the assumptions. And, above all, THINK.
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