{"id":563,"date":"2011-04-08T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/?p=563"},"modified":"2011-04-08T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:02:23","slug":"marys-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/2011\/04\/08\/marys-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"MARY&#8217;S BELT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-564\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_2504.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-564\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_2504-221x300.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_2504-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/files\/2011\/04\/IMG_2504.JPG 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>The Mwinika people call a rainbow &#8220;mudhako wa Mariya&#8221; and it means &#8220;Mary&#8217;s belt.&#8221; I assume there is some Catholic connection but all the Mwinika know it by that term whether they are Catholic or not. This morning I went outside and saw this rainbow. It struck me that this was the first rainbow I have seen since we taught on its significance from the story of Noah a couple of weeks ago. After teaching that lesson I talked to a few people about it and they had never heard that the rainbow was God&#8217;s promise not to send a worldwide flood again. I can&#8217;t help but wonder if some of the others in the village looked at this rainbow and, for the first time in their lives, understood it&#8217;s true significance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mwinika people call a rainbow &#8220;mudhako wa Mariya&#8221; and it means &#8220;Mary&#8217;s belt.&#8221; I assume there is some Catholic connection but all the Mwinika know it by that term whether they are Catholic or not. This morning I went outside and saw this rainbow. It struck me that this was the first rainbow I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-henderson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}