Grocott's Mail
  • NEWS
    • Courts & Crime
    • Features
    • Politics
    • People
    • Health & Well-being
  • SPORT
    • News
    • Results
    • Sports Diary
    • Club Contacts
    • Columns
    • Sport Galleries
    • Sport Videos
  • OPINION
    • Election Connection
    • Makana Voices
    • Deur ‘n Gekleurde Bril
    • Newtown… Old Eyes
    • Incisive View
    • Your Say
  • ARTSLIFE
    • Cue
    • Makana Sharp!
    • Visual Art
    • Literature
    • Food & Fun
    • Festivals
    • Community Arts
    • Going Places
  • OUR TOWN
    • What’s on
    • Spiritual
    • Emergency & Well-being
    • Safety
    • Civic
    • Municipality
    • Weather
    • Properties
      • Grahamstown Properties
    • Your Town, Our Town
  • OUTSIDE
    • Enviro News
    • Gardening
    • Farming
    • Science
    • Conservation
    • Motoring
    • Pets/Animals
  • ECONOMIX
    • Business News
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Personal Finance
  • EDUCATION
    • Education NEWS
    • Education OUR TOWN
    • Education INFO
  • Covid-19
  • EDITORIAL
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Trending
  • GADRA and Mobile Science Lab launch new science project
  • Almost 50 GADRA alumni graduate from Rhodes this week!
  • How it feels to go without water for seven days
  • Cleaning Kowie River and Fairview Spring for World Water Day
  • Local soccer teams avoid SAB Regional League relegation!
  • Bongani Fule: new Eastern Cape Junior Lightweight champion!
  • Bathurst Book Fair is back with a bang!
  • In the words of Nelson Mandela, “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity”
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Grocott's Mail
  • NEWS
    • Courts & Crime
    • Features
    • Politics
    • People
    • Health & Well-being
  • SPORT
    • News
    • Results
    • Sports Diary
    • Club Contacts
    • Columns
    • Sport Galleries
    • Sport Videos
  • OPINION
    • Election Connection
    • Makana Voices
    • Deur ‘n Gekleurde Bril
    • Newtown… Old Eyes
    • Incisive View
    • Your Say
  • ARTSLIFE
    • Cue
    • Makana Sharp!
    • Visual Art
    • Literature
    • Food & Fun
    • Festivals
    • Community Arts
    • Going Places
  • OUR TOWN
    • What’s on
    • Spiritual
    • Emergency & Well-being
    • Safety
    • Civic
    • Municipality
    • Weather
    • Properties
      • Grahamstown Properties
    • Your Town, Our Town
  • OUTSIDE
    • Enviro News
    • Gardening
    • Farming
    • Science
    • Conservation
    • Motoring
    • Pets/Animals
  • ECONOMIX
    • Business News
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Personal Finance
  • EDUCATION
    • Education NEWS
    • Education OUR TOWN
    • Education INFO
  • Covid-19
  • EDITORIAL
Grocott's Mail
You are at:Home»Uncategorized»Mister God, this is Anna
Uncategorized

Mister God, this is Anna

Busisiwe HohoBy Busisiwe HohoApril 15, 20101 Comment3 Mins Read
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email

“At five years Anna knew absolutely the purpose of being; she knew the meaning of love and was a personal friend and helper of Mister God.

At six Anna was a theologian, mathematician, philosopher, poet and gardener.” Fynn meets a five-yearold girl, Anna, on a cold night on the streets of the East End of London.

“At five years Anna knew absolutely the purpose of being; she knew the meaning of love and was a personal friend and helper of Mister God.

At six Anna was a theologian, mathematician, philosopher, poet and gardener.” Fynn meets a five-yearold girl, Anna, on a cold night on the streets of the East End of London.

A firm friendship is formed between the small orphan and the rough giant as they embark on their adventure to discover God.

Fynn soon realises that Anna is no ordinary child. Like most children she constantly asks questions, but the nature of her questions is uniquely profound.

Fynn is a product of his environment, with his marvellous Cockney mum, the garrulous night people, and their voluptuous, honest, unsophisticated life.

Anna, with her to-the-point manner and insatiable quest for truth, takes complete control of Fynn’s life as she pulls him along on a magical journey.

At first Fynn thinks he as the adult is teaching Anna, but it quickly becomes clear that she is there to teach him that everything in life functions to live with God “in my middle”.

Anna experiences God completely through her interaction with daily life. She immerses herself in  the grit of the world, and also in abstract activities like mathematics and philosophy, all of which serve the  purpose of securing her friendship with God.

The book was first published 36 years ago, but it still  resonates today. Here is a book all Christians, nay, all people should read.

In light of the moral regeneration  movement implemented in Grahamstown, here is a book that can help. Anna’s innocence, her  feeling that she completely belongs to Mister God, captures the essence of human innocence before  the Fall.

Mister God, this is Anna is a classic, timeless piece that generates new ideas with every read. Samuel Taylor Coleridge spoke about texts that are idea-creating; ideas that contain future thought.

Mister  God, this is Anna contains future thought, and is thus still relevant today in this postmodern,  secular world.

Nearly 40 years later Anna’s ideas still challenge both religious and secular schools of  thought. Copies are available at the Grahamstown public library, and UPB orders copies on request.

Previous ArticleIngaba sisiphelo seOld Goal?
Next Article The fascinating rituals of Africa
Busisiwe Hoho

Comments are closed.

Tweets by Grocotts
Newsletter



Listen

The Rhodes University Community Engagement Division has launched Engagement in Action, a new podcast which aims to bring to life some of the many ways in which the University interacts with communities around it. Check it out below.

Humans of Makhanda

Humans of Makhanda

Weather    |     About     |     Advertise     |     Subscribe     |     Contact     |     Support Grocott’s Mail

© 2023 Maintained by School of Journalism & Media Studies.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.