Sunny Banana
YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@sanibonani-y2g?si=09LymOLYjP7sE3cY
I am a school chaplain and the content is intended to encourage curiosity about Faith and it's impact on day to day life
The Sunny Banana, is a play upon the Zulu greeting, Sanibonani, meaning I see you.
As tech wrenches us from real life, we are not seeing each other. The Greek word 'idea' means to see. It is as if we have lost the idea of what it means to be human; social, communal, relational. The same word, to see, in Old English is 'seon' which has connotations of understanding.
Let's start seeing each other again, listening, respecting, and understanding each other and ourselves. After all, we are people through other people.
Sunny Banana
God is Love | When Light Opens The Closed Rose Of The Heart #27
A single beam of light through a church window changed how we saw the day—and ourselves. What began as a personal story of losing hearing in one ear and living nine years in partial silence becomes a wider meditation on restoration, grace, and the brave work of loving people back to who they were made to be. When hearing returned, music sounded new, a daughter’s voice felt like a gift unwrapped, and gratitude turned into a map for finding love in a noisy world.
We unpack a simple but demanding idea: sin isn’t only rule-breaking, it is disconnection from love that fogs our vision and dulls our senses. From Eden’s longing for union to the modern pull of distraction and addiction, we explore how the heart closes like a rose in cold shade. Then comes the image that anchors this conversation—a ray of light, incense in the air, singing rising—and a closed rose warming open. That is how restorative love works: not by force, but by presence, patience, and truth that does not humiliate.
Together we turn this into practice. How do you love someone so they feel more themselves, not less? What does it look like to offer attention that heals, to speak words that strengthen courage, to carry gratitude as proof that love was given before it was earned? We share a grounded, hopeful way forward: move toward love and love moves toward you; step into light and the rose opens. If the world feels broken, remember that amendment often begins with one conversation, one act of intentional kindness, one choice to see clearly.
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Sunny Bunani, welcome to the Sunny Banana. I see you and what a beautiful day it is to talk about what I want to talk about today. I want to talk about love. Now, I suppose as many people there are in this world, there is a belief about what love is. But I want to share with you something personally. I lost hearing in my ear due to a the smallest body of the bones in your body, stapies bones fusing together, and they weren't vibrating to pick up the sound waves, and so I lost sound uh listening, um hearing in my left ear. And so I have since had a operation, and after a few years, about nine years of struggling through the left ear, now I can hear. How beautiful some music is, how beautiful my daughter and her voice sounds. And it's reminded me about what I had lost. So in Christianity, humanity has lost this connection with love through sin. Sin can be anything that disconnects us from love, disconnects us and darkens our vision and blinds us to the beauty that is all around us. And therefore our lives are there to strive towards restoration, restoration, to restore what was once lost. In the Garden of Eden, we fell from grace, and so we try and live our lives so that we can return to that place where connection, where love, where union, unity was the reality, is at the center of things. But as I said last week, lots of distractions, a lot of temptations, a lot of addictions blind us to this reality. And I'll leave you this one thought. I went into church this past Sunday, and above, there's a little window above the altar, and the church I go to is incense, candles, and all the bells and whistles. And the ray of light was striking, and it fell upon the worshippers and the singing. It was quite a beautiful moment. And I had this thought about light onto a rose. And not just any rose, a rose that was closed off, a rose that was sort of not open and disconnected, not being what it truly can be. And then this light striking the rose and allowing it to open and be a rose. So my my thoughts today, and the challenge to myself and all of us today, is can we step into this love? First, let's believe in this love that can restore things, restore all things. The world is broken, the world is dark if we look out at it. But the only hope is that we step into this love. And Christians believe God is love and love, this this love emanates and is is is is is penetrating and all things, it it it is soaked. The world is soaked with it. Again, our eyes are closed to it because of the distraction. So we're not thinking, and we're not praying about it, we're not we're not going towards it. So the scriptures say when we go towards God, who is love, God will come towards us. So this love, when we see somebody, let us, I pray, let it be a restorative love of that person that you're talking to today. That says, May they may they see and feel that connection, saying, Wow, this person is loving me in a way that allows me to be who I am and who I was created to be. So go out there and love in this way intentionally. If you knew, as Christians believe, that God is love and this love is given to us unconditionally, this graceful love, and if you knew that in your bones, in your heart, you would go out and love as best you can to your best, to your your best ability in gratitude for receiving that love in the first place. So let us love, let us love, brothers and sisters, and bring light to the darkness that is all around us. This world is broken, but all things can be amended. And again, I'll leave I'll leave you with this and restored. God bless you all. Sunny Bunani. I see you. Thank you for listening to the Sunny Bunana.