Act your way to success
“… A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back and take it easy-do you know what comes next? Just this: You can look forward to a dirt poor life with poverty as your permanent house guest.’ Proverbs 24:30-34(The Message Bible)
The most horrendous temptation that haunts humanity today is the temptation to sit back, relax and let nature take its course. Sadly, some of our spiritual leaders have also come to accept this and are always claiming “God has ruled”. As a result, this has inhibited humanity’s ability to grow because when we don’t act, we are bound to shrink.
Each one of us has dreams, dreams to be successful, dreams to be healthy, dreams to have a wonderful marriage, to be loved, to love, to have wonderful kids, the list is endless. Dreams are a natural gift from God and he gives them in huge proportions. It is however up to us to act on those dreams and bring them to fruition. It’s a two way thing; God gives you dreams and you act upon those dreams. Read more
Student life
The sun sets so beautifully into the horizon. The ordinary person marvels at the wonder of the glory of God, yet to the student who is at a university that is about to close its doors, who slept on an empty stomach yesterday, the setting of the sun does not signify anything. All he askes is a simple innocent question, ‘Is God mverled at my pain?’
This year I am certainly praising God for making me able to pay US$2500 for my college tuition which with current situation that our country is in is a fortune. As I praise God I know there is someone who is cursing the blessing of the burning syndrome that made his poor parents afford to send him to one of Zimbabwe’s most expensive universities. Why shouldn’t he, when his school fees drained everything from their coofers that all they could manage to give their son for school was a little forex which today seems to be also affected by the sporadic runaway inflation that has brougth our country down? Read more
Now is not forever
“The concept and fact of ‘now’ or immediacy often oppresses people. Every ruling class in history has made people respond to the immediacy as if it were forever…We are trapped by immediacy. The ruling class cultivates such an idea. But ‘now’ is the shortest period of time. While [you are reading this] now is going out of existence. What we have here is three basic concepts: reality, actuality, and potentiality. And people confuse the three. Actuality is what is; potentiality is what can be and reality is what the thing ought to be in its fullness. People often confuse reality with actuality. They say face ‘reality’, but what they really mean is submit to actuality, i.e. to what is now. In a word accept things as they are. But we are not supposed to do that. Human nature is human possibility and thus what we must do is cultivate the human potential in us and dare turn actuality into reality. Again, actuality is what is, but reality is what ought to be to be when a thing or person realises his or her fullness…” Dr Maulana Karenga.
And therein lies the rub. A boil might grow, but it will eventually fester and burst. And heal. But in its “now” it causes such untold pain that its bearer thinks will never end. So too, this state of limbo, days of uncertain hope in which you are not sure whether the light you see at the end of the tunnel is really the opening you crave, or a train coming to squash you into a stain. Read more
If we did it once, we can do it again…but when?
“If not now, then when?” Echoes from a plaintive Tracy Chapman song, if my memory serves me right. But the mind is numbed by a vicious summer flu (as well as age, I guess), so I can’t be certain. But that line finds resonance as deadlocks continue, Troikas defer crucial meetings- all because there was an apparent hide and seek shenanigan with travel documents…If a small country like Zimbabwe can’t make agreements work, what more the grand dreams of SADC, AU and Pan Africanism? Read more
