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One morning, my son walked up to me and said "Daddy I have a very important request; Can you please build a very big house, where my cousins, uncles, aunties, nephews, nieces and other close family members will come and live with us? I want all of us to be living together. Daddy, this is my desire... If you can do this for me, I will be the happiest person in the world" This is rather an impossible task my son is requesting. while growing up,it was a delight living with extended families..we all looked forward to holidays when will see each again. Nothing gave us more joy than seeing other family members around. Some relatives had little or nothing, but their strength and wealth was in relationships and being together. The joy of holidays and celebrations still vibrate in my heart. We usually lose sleep to happiness during such seasons because,relatives would be coming home. It was such a delight to see siblings, cousins, nieces, nephews, uncles, aunties, grannies, ...

In olden times, when the Lord himself still used to walk about on this earth amongst men, it once happened that he was tired and overtaken by the darkness before he could reach an inn.  Now there stood on the road before him two houses facing each other, the one large and beautiful, the other small and poor.  The large one belonged to a rich man, and the small one to a poor man. Then the Lord thought, I shall be no burden to the rich man. I will stay the night with him.  Then the rich man heard someone knocking at his door, he opened the window and asked the stranger what he wanted.  The Lord answered, I only ask for a night's lodging. Then the rich man looked at the traveler from head to foot, and as the Lord was wearing common clothes, and did not look like one who had much money in his pocket, he shook his head, and said, no, I cannot take you in, my rooms are full of herbs and seeds.  And if I were to lodge everyone who knocked at my door, ...