In the parable devoted to mercy, Jesus reveals the nature of God as that of a Father who never gives up until he has forgiven the wrong and overcome rejection with compassion and mercy. We know these parable well, these in particular, the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the father with two sons {c.f Lk 13: 1 see the care-32}. In these parables, God is presented as full of joy, especially when he pardons. In these scriptural text, we see the care of our faith and of the gospel, showing mercy as a force that overcomes everything, and filling the heart with love and consolation through pardon....

THE SECRETS OF TEARS OF DESTINY IS a beautiful novel which employs Akan philosophy of an African family to relate the unparalleled and indispensable interference of the gods of our land in our daily struggling as individuals and as a community. Thus it does not only tells a beautiful story, but makes African culture with its traditions and beliefs much more pulchritudinous and wellsprings of wisdom

ANCESTRAL CURSE is an interesting novel which while the author challenging the reader to see why for some people the harder they try, the worse they do, getting ready always for tomorrow, but never welcomed by tomorrow, employs the reader to understand that one never really understands a person until one considers things from the person's point of view. Thus until we climb into other's skin and walk around in it, vulture can never stop feeding on the dead. That is why from time immemorial, we are punished for the sins of the gods, our deeds, our ancestors. So everything we strive to strangle...