We are excited to announce the launch of Parousia Reads, a publishing firm and online bookstore whose aim is to create a home for you as a Christian author. We explore numerous arts through captivating, interesting and outstanding writing, illustrations and more. Parousia reads is a sister body to Parousia Magazine, Africa’s First Christian Art…
This Evening Hoard in heart holding the ears of this stormThat, like a tormenter, entered the gardenTo rob it of its beautySome bright dayWe can talk about this dark time. Don’t allow an easy fallTo the tears falling from your eyesLet some dust of rage rise from the floorWhere the drops fallLet dissatisfaction take a…
THE EPIDEMIC (NEW CORONA) Woe bring’st thou and woe thee betide.For all that sorrow to thee are tied.And for fatalities by yours upon our comrades;First the SARS, then MERS; all in raids,Usurping our dominance over lower beings,From bats and cats to donkeys and dogs, like outlawed kings. Perhaps these, for transgressions by our kind,Perpetrated against…
The Day We Learnt To Wash Our Hands The Universal creator took a paint brush and flicked it across the world. It landed where it did. The people didn’t see it coming, even though it was quite a bright white, it wasn’t until it landed on the skin that it came into awareness. Still many…
SUNLESS DAYS Our hopes have flownAnd our dreams drownedIn the shattered streamsOf anxiety and perplexityShadowed by dreariness. Die not the smearing sunFor thy creatures need it.Die not the scorching sunFor the whole world weepsFor the coldness of the dawn. Our sight is blurred,But the thundering voiceOf a blissful sonShall change the shrieky tuneOf wails; Christ…
How Invaluable Can Life Be? If anyone told me that I’ll lose a loved one to viruses which I’ve been studying in the university, I’ll call it the biggest lie of the century. I will gather strength to discredit such person and maybe dissociate from such Harbinger of Death. But here it is, 33 days…
To heal is to let go of your broken past,Retold sins and the will to forgo those ills,Creating a new human from the ruins of old souls,A new you baptized with abundant Grace. To heal is to merge your present with God,Confess old sins and drink from his cup of grace,Bathe your soul with his…
PAROUSIA Magazine is calling for submissions for it 13th Issue to be published by July 2021 The theme of this forthcoming Issue is Indwelling Ephesians 1:13 KJVIn whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with…
Greetings, my dearly beloved brothers and sisters of God’s inspirational grace; today, I am pleading that each of you will defeat Covid-19 and live a blessed life with your family. Today, let’s join hands in prayers for these three countries. They are currently rated as the top three countries in the world with the worst…
COME ALL YE To the ones whose eyes have seen gory daysAnd those whose hope went up in flamesThere’s a panacea to every hurt, every painCome all ye, let this name be your shade.To the ones who’ve had their backs to the wallAnd those the locusts devoured their cropsDon’t just sit and mourn and count…
I ESTHER walked into the king’s lairwith little hope whatsoever her first attempt was at dinner her shaking voice asked forpityjusticeandrevengepray about the plot of peoplelike Hamaneating with youand beating bones into your throat:an enemy. II LISTEN TO GOD What’d you make of so raging thoughtsgathered beneath your eyes?See, they sag_with very pale glow;voice locked…
