Sunny Banana
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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
#31 | If God Became Human, What Does That Make Of Us
What if Christmas isn’t a soft-focus memory but the moment the world tilted toward restoration? We open the season with a bold claim: if God truly became human, then matter matters, history bends toward healing, and every ordinary moment can carry eternal weight. No clichés here—just a step-by-step walk through why the Incarnation changes everything from the ground up.
We start with the wound beneath our restlessness: the story of Eden as a pattern of misdirected desire. Then we trace a surprising reversal—Mary’s consent answering Eve’s grasp, the new Adam entering through the fruit of her womb. From there we follow the thread to the Cross as the new tree, where the self-giving of the God‑Man turns defeat into life. Along the way we talk about Holy Communion as the “fruit of immortality,” where bread and wine become the place we receive what we cannot earn. This is faith with texture: embodied, sacramental, and hopeful enough to meet a weary world.
Drawing on ancient teachers, we picture humanity as a marred portrait being restored by the return of the Original. Prayer, acts of mercy, and worship become the steady brushstrokes that clarify the image. Whether you’re sceptical or devout, the claim reaches you: the highest has become the lowest so the lowest can rise. That means your body, your work, your table, and your relationships matter far more than sentiment suggests. If Christmas is true, the path home is open, and we walk it together with grace.
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Sunny Bunani. I see you. Welcome to the Sunny Banana, my brothers and sisters. And today I want to give a short message on Christmas. Now I go to South Africa for holiday on Friday to be with family and my family. And so I won't be posting any episodes for three weeks from today. But Christmas, as the angels sing in the background, this changes everything. Christmas does. For the Jew, for the Muslim, for the Christian, for the non-believer, for the agnostic, for the don't knows, the atheists, it changes everything. If Jesus Christ, the baby that was born on Christmas, was just a man, well, nothing changes. Nothing changes and nothing matters. But the fact that the highest being, the ultimate being of God, chose to dwelt, to dwell, excuse me, dwelt in a human being. As a human being, sorry, not in a human being. As a human being, has redeemed and changed everything for all life and material. Matter matters, and it always has mattered. The Christmas message is about redemption. God coming to us so that we can be pulled out of the darkness of our own passions and pride. You see, when Adam sinned in disobedience, and Eve sinned in disobedience, by eating the fruit from a tree that was forbidden. Jesus Christ at Christmas through Mary. Mary is the redemption of Eve. Through Eve's sin, God has reversed that through a woman named Mary. And the fruit of her womb, the fruit of her womb is Jesus Christ. And this is the fruit of immortality and eternal life. This is the fruit that will change everything for us. In church, we commune the body and the blood of Christ. And it's no wonder that Christ was hung on a tree to redeem the tree that we ate from in the garden. Adam and Eve ate of a tree, but the new tree with the fruit of Mary's womb hanging on it. I don't know if you can get this picture with me, but please stay with me. Christ, the man God, the God man, gives himself to us through grace and mercy, and we can find a way back, and this changes everything for us. Orthodox Christian Christians, Catholics, Anglicans around the world receive this Holy Communion in their services weekly. It should be the apex of our of their week, of our week, to receive this fruit, the everlasting food that will grant us eternal life. And just if you pay enough attention this Christmas in the church services you go to and understand this story, this incarnation in theology we call it God becoming human and dwelt among us, and he's the ultimate one who walks us home, who walks us back, who restores us, who saves us. I want to leave you with one last beautiful image of I think it was Saint Ignatius speaking about the incarnation. And if we are the image of God, Jesus Christ is the image of God. And originally, God, if you think of a self-portrait, is painting humanity in the image of God. So through humanity we should be able to see God through each other. We should be able to see Christ. But in the Garden of Eden, we marred that image. So think of a portrait of a person that's being painted, and something happens to that portrait, you will need to get back the original person who was being painted. And this is the Christmas message. Jesus Christ is that person, is that being who comes back to restore, to repaint that image. And the more we commune with Christ at church in prayers, in acts of mercy, the more we look like God. The more we look like God. This is a beautiful thing. Christmas time is about participating, participation with the divine, with God. And this changes everything, no matter what people believe. So may you have a merry Christmas and know of the grace and the mercy that comes through this life, through this baby. The highest has become the lowest, so that the lowest can rejoin the highest, and that's us. May we journey towards God together, and may God bless you this Christmas and have a Merry Christmas. Amen. Sunny Bunani, I see you.