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His heart for people showed me the importance of loving others. Deeply passionate about caring for the homeless, my father volunteered his time to treat many who were overlooked by society. He knew many of them by name, making sure they had access to flu shots before the winter came. Though he was not a man to preach sermons, his example at home and in the community showed me the generous and caring father heart of God. Though my dad passed away in , there is not a day that I do not benefit from his legacy in my life. Seeking God first carries a blessing and a promise—all these things our needs, cares, and concerns will be added to you.

To seek God first puts the priority of our lives on God.

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It is often a heavy responsibility. It has been an honor to help my husband teach our children these life-lessons of faith. Holy moments are for teaching your children to trust God. Leading our family, my husband shows us what faith look like in his words and actions. Despite our mistakes, I see a godly legacy in the lives of our children. Acknowledging God in all our ways is the legacy that God uses to pass the baton of faith straight to the heart of the next generation. Not because we did it perfectly, because, boy I tell you, we did not do it perfectly. The greatest thing that we can do beyond loving and appreciating the fathers in our lives is to pray for them.

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Click on the list above to print a copy of 15 Prayers for Dad. Your email address will not be published. Battered by an abusive husband, Funiwe is utterly dependent upon her brothers to rescue her from this violent marital relationship. Yet it is only Jojo, her youngest brother, who exerts persistent effort to free his brutalised sister, taking her case to tribal court for recompense and relief.

Although the court agrees to the payment of five cows for damages and allows her respite in her paternal home, she is charged with returning to her husband once her physical recovery is complete. Although Funiwe is appeased by the required bovine payment for her suffering as it appears to acknowledge the court's support for beaten wives, she rages at the ruling requiring her to return to the site of repeated abuse.

This watershed event solidifies for Jojo the importance of education in guaranteeing financial independence for his beloved daughter and he actively pursues this. Because of Shumikazi's academic brilliance, she is the first in her extended family to study beyond primary school, a feat achieved despite the disdain of her uncles, who believe the 'wealth' of her education will be lost to her husband's family. Yet Jojo is adamant that his daughter will get an education in case he is not around to care for her, already suspecting that his male siblings may fail in their duty to provide for his daughter.

His paternal dedication raises further indignation when he bequeaths his entire legacy of vast herds of cattle, sheep and alpacas to his only surviving child. Although his generosity is applauded by the white magistrate, members of her village vocalise their contempt and his brothers are outraged.

When Jojo's health deteriorates, evidence of the ravages of his years in the mines, he worries again for the care and comfort of his daughter, concerned that his brothers may abdicate their responsibility for his beloved child. Thus, when a marriage offer is presented from a clan in the nearby village, he negotiates the lobola contract with the express condition that Shumikazi be allowed to finish school. Unfortunately, his passing removes the paternal protection that he so lovingly provided, and his brothers, offended that he gave all his resources to his female daughter, abandon her.

Thus, despite her brilliant academic results and the wealth of her kraal, her uncles refuse to sell any of her animals to pay for her continued education. They make it clear how ridiculous and wasteful it is to educate a girl child and their patriarchal miserliness forces Shumi to leave school.

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Even the villagers see this act as an unspoken but binding reciprocal agreement of familial love and responsibility. But Shumi's meager wedding preparations illustrate how short-sighted her uncles are. Not only do they shame Shumi, but they enrage her groom's family who were already angered at the wealth lost by her lavish endowment.

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Family First-A Father's Legacy was written from to It is an account of one family's life during the 20tb century. The family consists of a father. Former Colorado State Senator and World War II veteran Lloyd Casey has written a book called "Family First A Father's Legacy", a compilation of letters he wrote.

Their displeasure is evident in the marital name they confer on her. Although a bride's name is designed to reflect on the family's delight in their new 'daughter', Shumi is assigned No-orenji the orange one , a name indicative of the indifference and disdain they feel toward her.

Fortunately, she is a loved bride and the delight of her husband, Sandile, a mine worker who spends only 1 month a year at home with his wife. Despite their months of separation, their early years of marriage are blessed with three children, and later, with the arrival of two grandsons, Shumikazi earns the grudging but appreciative respect from her in-laws for producing male heirs. Moreover, No-orenji's tireless and sacrificial efforts as a makoti son's wife to her extended family further elevates her in their eyes and they joke that they should have named her Nokwakha builder because of her industry.

But the mines, ever a spectre of death, claim the life of Sandile and once again No-orenji is thrown into the defenceless position of an unprotected woman in a patriarchal culture. In this time of grief, when familial comfort is expected, No-orenji must face further pain when her paternal family fails to even share in her tears.

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To worsen matters, within a week of the funeral her husband's male relatives begin to offer sexual comfort for her sorrow. Mortified by their persistence and concerned that village women will see her widowhood as a sexual threat, No-orenji must then face the untenable situation of remarriage to her husband's youngest brother. With determined desperation, she appeals to her in-laws that she be allowed to return to her father's homestead, hoping it allows her to escape the inevitability of sexual assault or unwanted marriage. When finally released, she discovers that her paternal home and gardens have been decimated by neglect and the kraal, once teeming with healthy animals, lies empty.

Her uncles view her return with guilty suspicion, for they have swallowed Jojo's wealth and reduced the rondavels to ruin. Despite efforts to have her uncles assist in restoring her father's home and returning even some of the herds, Shumi meets fierce resistance from her wastrel eldest uncle.

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A book Lloyd Casey had publlished in available from Amazon. Jojo is unlike any male character yet portrayed in African literature and through him it is as if Magona desires to compose a new script for future generations, encouraging African men to re-create the close family unit for which the isiXhosa were once known. Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography. In the isiXhosa culture, the naming ceremony is sacrosanct, signifying a declaration and enunciation which speaks into and over the life of the child. The story is recorded in the book of Genesis.

Her scathing rebuke of his appalling lack of familial responsibility rings in the villagers' ears: Her uncles' self-inscribed tradition of negligence and indifference has spanned decades. From their lack of protection for their abused sister Funiwe, to their craven silence in revealing an offered bursary, to their miserly bridal gifts, they reaffirmed their deliberate ignorance of tribal traditions of family support and concern.

Ever tenacious, Shumi throws herself into re-establishing her paternal homestead and her dedication inspires villagers to reach out. This is Xhosa tradition of Ubuntu working as it was intended, united sharing and caring until the one suffering is restored. Their united labour represents life's generous circle of giving, an acknowledgement of Jojo's investment in village life and Shumi's stalwart kindness to her family.

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Shumi's heartache is soothed by their expressions of support and her sense of aloneness and abandonment dissolves. Further she realises that, although his sacrificial industry was important, her father's 'wealth, his real cattle: And she no longer has to 'chase the tails of her father's cattle' at the homesteads of her uncles; instead she discovers she is an integral part of a living community who breathes solidarity and commitment to one of their own. Like her father, Shumi carries on their family tradition, rebuilding her homestead, gardens and kraals for the heritage of her own offspring.

Moreover, she educates her children, enabling them to achieve university degrees, an accomplishment she assimilates through their success. Further, her investment in the next generation extends to the training of women and she establishes a factory which ensures other women are not impoverished by male selfishness or greed.

Through it all, Shumikazi is a victor. Magona's novel takes us on one African woman's life journey, as she faces the dangers of patriarchal neglect and abuse. Yet it illustrates the tenaciousness of an indomitable woman who reaches beyond mere survival and grows past the bile of bitterness to embrace her obstacles with vigour and creates opportunities from the dust and dung of the soil. In her veins flows the blood of a father whose parenthood demonstrates the potential of every African male, one who casts his heart and not just his seed, to implant a fierce love, building in his daughter a secure identity and self-sufficiency.

Further, her mother's otherworldly visitations offer indispensable guidance and comfort, reassuring her that maternal love is transcendent.