The Goodwill Show

Q1: What would you consider to be spirituality and why do you identify yours with Christianity?

Q2: It is apparent that there are many churches all around the world but why is it, that the masses of belivers also happen to be poor but tithing and offerings are still expected of them?

Q3: What do you make of ancestors especially recognizing them as a practice of awareness?

Q4: Do you believe that Christianity is the only true gospel and that the Bible is the only absolute truth and why?

Q5: Men often feel threatened by women's independence how do you as a leader inform men about feminism and help dissolve the idea toxic masculinity?

Q6: People of colour are often subject to the gospel especially because of its European context, how are you helping in democratizing Africans?

Q7: What has been the impact of religious leadership in your personal development?

Q8: Who is God and how does one connect to God?

Q9: Are you proud to be African and celebrate your roots under the church movement?

Q10: What can we expect from you in the near future?

How do people connect with you?

Q1: Why is counseling not common amongst the communities in the people of colour?

Q2: Amongst many black dominated neighborhoods there is little to no development because of the standards of living. Is this a black people thing or a psychological impairment caused by environmental oppression inflicted upon us by the oppressing government?

Q3: I'm not within the reach right now but, one of the services you provide is premarital and postmarital counseling and you've done this for over 20 years and 20 years is a whole life time. What have been the problems that you've encountered in your experience that result in couples permanently separating?

Q4: Why is it important to have psychological therapy and how does it affect behavior?

Q5: I have personally experienced counseling through your services and I can attest to the truth in that it has brightened my light. However how available are these services to the masses in South African because maybe people aren't aware of them or cannot afford?

Q6: We have experienced unprecedented cases of women and children abuse in this country and ofcourse around the world. As a counselor do you provide services for the offenders and what have been the underlying reason behind such cruelty?

Q7: I am aware of your contributions to the development of the youth in our communities, why is it important for you to empower young people?

Q8:The Schools in Black neighborhoods are of poor quality. In the sense that the infrastructure isn't the same as of the school's in white neighborhoods, what does this reality do to the African child in attendance and is it limiting to be in such schools?

Q9: Since you provide counseling to many people, do you perhaps have the ability to also be a patient to your own practice?

Q10: Having been in the industry for so long is it a space you'd advice a young person to enter if they were passionat? and why?

Where can our listeners reach you and what can we look forward to in the future from  you?

Introducing the incredible U'Lungisile Mtshweni. He is a full house. Considers himself to be controversial but is filled with knowledge and wisdom.

Hey I am Goodwill Mabena and today I am joined by an incredible individual who is founder and leader of Purity.She graduated Highschool 2017 at Witbank High and was appointed to be  part of the school's excutive councillor of learner's and was also a part of an organization called S.C.O. Currently she is in pursuit of her academics in business management. Please help me welcome Sebenzile Mahlangu

I would like to start this lecture with a question. I guess what I have come to learn is that everything in this world is built around a set of questions and this is why I'm worried when I come across people who are not asking any questions about anything. There is a very intelligent man or woman who once said, The future belongs to the curious and the greatest plague to a new generation is apathy.

Now the question that I have today is; How do people fail so miserably to fulfill an agenda that they believe means everything to them? | Anyone willing to attempt answering? ...Anyone? |

Okay let us follow through to find the answer together, if we may.

"Ask ye the animals and let them teach you. Confront the birds of the air and let them inform you. Alternatively you could kneel to the earth and it will assure you about something that the fish deep in the oceans will declare. They know a truth and have experienced what we haven't began to imagine...the hand that holds every living thing." ~Those are the words of the famous Job

The word obedience can easily be misunderstood and end up being associated with control and dominance abuse. My early thoughts of the word made me think about a master and a servant, at the time that was natural to me because of what I exposed myself to. Ou this is good...

Everytime the Israelites responded to their God in obedience there was providence, now what is powerful is that not only does obedience bring nurturing and care but mission and direction as well. God was waiting for his people to show seriousness for him to reveal power, it is to our level of belief in him that determines our mark on earth.

The beauty about God is that his principles can exist and be functional without him expecting you to believe in him without certainty. What I mean by that is, if you are obedient to your vision and mission, regardless of what that vision or mission is, there is a gift for you to be recieve at the end of your commitment.

I guess how I'm going to introduce obedience is a commitment in belief. Its to give in trust or charge it's to consign.

In morden psychology there has been a rise in the study of psychoanalysis. I've personally taken sometime to read articles about this topic and inform myself about Freuds, Psychoanalytic Theory. This is the theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis.

We often hear people, when casually taking to one another use phrases, like this is not my personality or that something isn't reflecting of their personality. I was curious to find out if people knew about their personality. Now let us look at the psychological definition of the word personality; it is "The sum total of the physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics of an individual. Its the organized pattern of behavioral characteristics of the individual". With this description I wondered how many people are actually conscious of their personality.

Have you ever heard of the phrase, "Show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are"? This is a presupposition that claims that the individuals that you actively engage with personally can be used as framework or even as evidence to reflect on your own character. How true is this? That separate individuals who have decision systems in isolation can be used to represent one another.

This means that if you have ever heard a person saying that their child has bad friends what they really meant was, that their child was the bad one, amongst the friends. If that is true then imagine how many people were called bad and have had to live with the stigma that were of bad influence to others. Maybe what the elderly were trying to do was to separate a group that had potential in the wrong direction, they wanted to divide and conquer.

There is a story I read from the Alchemists of a person who knelt daily besides a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that,one morning he fell into the lake and drowned. The goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake which had been fresh water transformed into a lake of salty tears.

The goddesses asked the lake why it weeped and it replied that it weeped for Narcissus. The goddesses said, "It is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus, for you alone could contemplate his beauty close at hand" the lake asked the goddesses if Narcissus was actually beautiful. The goddesses replied in shock, "Who better than you to know that?" After all they said, " It was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!"

The lake was silent for sometime. Finally it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that he was beautiful, I weep because each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected."

Now I couldn't help but to acknowledge the beauty that is in this principle, where you are with people in your life that see the greatness in themselves in you, as you see yours in them.

If you were to reflect on yourself one day with the agenda to see how your life is, how does that look like? The reflection criteria in this regard would be the relationship you have with life, on a level that you can envision. This is were you observe emotions like, how do you generally feel about yourself and everything that is happening around you. What is it that you are doing on a regular basis that makes your life worth living and justify the very essence of existence or, in contrast, what are you not doing that makes your life a tragedy that you dread confronting. Are you concious of who you are? and who you'd have to become to leave a legacy, a mark for those that are coming after you. In hindsight how does that life look like? What would your life look like if it were to justify purpose and meaning according to you?

Have you ever been asked as a child or even as an adult about what your wish would be, if the universe had granted you with one? I'd like to believe that you have been asked that, atleast once. The idea of a wish is perceived by many as mystical and even metaphysical because there is no way that we can get a wish in reality. This is because the evidence of a wish is traced back in our memory as a fictional gift that is only true in fairytales.

However the idea is not mystical, infact the idea that we can somehow ask the universe for something that is most valuable to us is well renowned cross religions cultures, races, ethnicities and even internationally. The part that is not accurate though and has characteristics of a fairytale is asking the universe for that which we regard as most valuable relatively and then waiting patiently without any directed effort into the very future we await.

Over the years that I have tried to answer the question of what my one wish would be. Each and every attempt made me realize, that my wish ends one way or the other, with a version of myself were I have acquired everything in life that suggests that, I am one of the people who have come into this world with a gift of purpose and has left having served it to the best of its function.

Having seen the outcome of my observations, it is obvious that the question that follows is; what is purpose? and how does one find theirs?