Habari Gani? The news today is Ujima (00-JEE-mah) which means “Collective Work and Responsibility”. This principle teaches us that we are to build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.

Day 3 of Kwanzaa represents a very important aspect of the Christian faith that helps us to become all the God intends for us to be. We are expected to work together and help one another. However, for some reason in this mixed up society we have missed the true mission as mandated by God.

I have always taught my children to help others and to work with others. It is a very important part of our family mission to simply be the vessels that God has created us to be.

I think it so sad how so many point fingers instead of looking beyond a situation into the soul of a person. Ujima teaches us that it is irresponsible to do such a thing. It is irresponsible to be a part of the problem as opposed to being a part of the solution.

I often tell my boys if you have nothing productive to add to a situation or issue then just leave it be.

I won’t speak long on today’s principle because there it pretty much speaks what needs to be spoken.

I will share the scriptures of the day…

The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

1 Corinthians 12: 12 -26

Habari Gani? What is your news for the day?