By Isaac Khonjelwayo
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Legacy builders don’t cheat seasons of time to harvest their crops. Your Spirit is your license to God’s conscience. You can gain fame or lose fortunes; but without lifting a finger you’ll get nowhere, it’s all a pipe-dream. You’ll be like dog chasing a moving car and when that car “stops” it doesn’t know what to do. This is what happens when a government like the ANC changes political leaders and the opposition party takes becomes silence and oblivious of the negative impact it will bring to our economy.
To be famous and rich you must be a lucky hardworking dude to a degree of being considered fortunate. Bill Gates or Steve Jobs biographies tell a promising tale of building legacies of wealth through honest hard work. Yet! To be fortunate you need to be luckier but possess a vision to work-wiser to keep such wealth and be content. It doesn’t make people guess if you’re not happy and have not conquered Life’s mysterious quizzes.
Although everything in life is possible. Life gives everyone an opportunity to explore the right means and ways of acquiring things without the temptation to cheat. Even though real wealth takes a little longer to build and realize results of once hard-earned goals. Patience will always be our virtue to trust that one day your hard work will pay-off.
It is always better to let the process of wealth building grow natural, than to seek short-cuts in obtaining quick riches. After all Nature’s menu of ordering and delivering our needs and wants is the most fail-safe means of securing a none forged and temporary happiness acquired through illegal means and methods. This is just how life operates – It doesn’t get any better than this.
How do you remember yours?
What will the world be like?
If we all stopped talking for a day
All of us at the same time but separately
Just for one day
What will the world be like?
If we all stopped moving around and about
All of us at the same time but separately
Just for one day
Where everyone can enjoy the still of the day
Peaceful day behind closed doors
Without any worries or cares
Will the Earth stop turning
or the Sun cease to rise and shine the next day?
Just for one day
What will the world be like?
If we all stopped eating and drinking
All of us at the same time but separately
Just for one day
For a change to remember those who are hungry
And poverty stricken
All of us at the same time but separately
Where everyone can simply be thankful and grateful
For their existence as a human race
Without any expectations or explanations or reason
Without any worries or cares
Will the sky tumble down on you?
or the Earth cease to turn from east to west?
Just for one day
Is being too busy and preoccupied a good sign
of immortality and permanent guarantee for
Everlasting happiness or good living?
Just for that day © 2010 Copyrights All right reserved
Author: Isaac Khonjelwayo
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Soweto in a nutshell. hen fate ties you into a knot – What do you do? Soweto in a nutshell is a preview of Life in Soweto South Africa and a mindset of a new breed of creatures who seek something great and good for nothing, perhaps even free without paying a price for it. Yet! It is not about the entire history of Soweto, as it would not do justice to depict the true history of Soweto.
Rather, this observation and the understudy of my people is a short representation of glimpses of its authentic strives and thrives, i.e. my heart-felt rhythms of its biological clock and the mixture of modern day blues. It is about the plight and courage of a people that stood to fight for an ideal purpose in life. This was in the early days of political struggle in South Africa. The 60’s until the 80’s was a bleak period in the history of African people in South Africa under Apartheid.
Our people were able to learn to stand together united by a common goal to overcome adversity, and the hatred instigated by white people – just because we were dark skinned. We had challenges, but rose above and beyond limitations defined by destiny of a political agenda through a sick system of government injustice called “Discrimination In The Name Of Apartheid” and a class and caste division called “Separate Development” of African people according to their culture and traditions, and residential allocations in various townships and cities.
Only to end up in 2018 with fragmented individuals who are fighting to amass and secure wealth and riches at the expense of stealing and laziness to thrive on poor leadership chaos the country is facing today.
My effort since 1994 is to try and crystallize the important parables of its unique blend of human strength and integrity of character in a way; paint the inner and outer kaleidoscope of my observations to unravel but the basic unending, yet intertwined mystery of its unfolding yet unlimited but, complicated tapestry; I would like to call living under the “Fallacy Of A Faked Democracy” of 1994 elections.
When fate ties your nuts into a knot - What do you do? Where is your Church when your household needs it most?For our sons and daughters to acquire practical leadership religious family values That will instill a sense of pride and purpose to all adults and win back domestic rule? Does it mean we have to hire maids & consultants to do the work our grandparents used to teach us? Does it mean our status as a society has misled the nation to believe we are infallible and untouchables to do our own dirty laundry?
Where is your Church program that teaches young girls how to prepare and cook family meals? And boys how to repairs door handles and wash daddy’s cars and keep up the garden? Does it mean our society has lost its core humane characteristic that was inherent? in the teachings of our forefathers’ values and traditional cultural upbringing? Are we so low to stoop beneath the level of our IQ that we can’t see right from wrong and make corrective measures?
When will your Church take a stand to fight the scourge of this undesirable plague? When will the voice of reason begin to shape the minds of the young to learn how to survive in the modern concrete jungle? Does it mean the country is doomed to produce a breed of unfit leaders that will drown our blissful aspirations and dreams into a bleak future?
When will your Church wake up from slumber before it realizes that the community it is serving and the building they occupy as a Church will one day be empty; because the real temple of Christ has left the neighborhood for Heaven? Does it mean we all need a Messiah to take us out of bondage and lead us once more to the Promised Land? How many souls should die fighting to bring common sense back into our daily thinking before we place more wreaths on another tombstone of our departed brothers in arms?
“SELF- ACTUALIZED” CONTENT CREATORS THE BACKGROUND CONCEPT":
A better world is a world where Self-Actualized People with good intentions and humility empower us unconditionally with knowledge and skills to make our dreams achievable and realized in our lifetime. My Definition of Self-Actualized viz. Self-Realized In the context of this TOPIC and the background information I want to explain will imply:
A “self-actualized” person shall mean a person or an individual who is willing, able and capable of giving back to society- knowledge, experiences, information, skills, or shed light or proactive thoughts and building blocks of information unconditionally and unreservedly to the public, community or to society as a whole to empower educate and to inform them to become better human beings. Whereas, this person can impart their knowledge, teach, share information and or skills as a “selfless act of passion” to empower, liberate others from ignorance in order to fulfill his/her inner spiritual drive to perhaps meet their material need or ambition. In the process of giving, if such occurrence intends to make the other person think, feel, do or act better than their usual state of being.
While a “self-actualized” person’s ambition might or can satisfy both the giver and the receiver; the self-actualized is not always restricted by distance, height, sight, space or boundaries of time to benefit their receptors. Any means of profiting from giving and sharing or imparting such knowledge if such information is owned and controlled by them or someone else with legitimate rights to do so in the beneficial processes; I consider it an act of kindness and noble gesture to mankind.
The “self-actualized” individuals’ skill can be deliberated as a way of life to expand upon their consciousness of awareness to exist as givers. In their purest form of intend it is to inspire or to raise questions while make a difference or impact on society to behave and react in unexpected ways positive or negative. This impacts and alters society’s perception about the world views we live in. ETC.... Read more here!
“When fate hands you a lemon – Try to make lemonade”. Happiness, peace and understanding are positive to the human mind and promote physical well-being. However, we think better, perform better, and feel better and healthier when we are happy and jovial. From a medical point of view, Dr. Schindler’s definition of happiness is, “A state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant, a good share of the time”. Russian psychologist, Kekcheyev, tested people when they were thinking pleasant thoughts they would see better, taste, smell and hear better and detect finer differences in touch. Also, Dr William Bates proved that eyesight improves immediately when the individual is thinking pleasant thoughts or visualizing pleasant scenes.
Similarly, Margaret Corbett found that memory is greatly improved, concentration enhanced and that the mind is relaxed. Now, thousands of years ago wise King Solomon said, in his proverbs, “A merry heart doerth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth up the bones” But, Dr. Maxwell Maltz has a more interesting point of view about happiness and he says. “Happiness is not something that is earned or deserved, happiness is not a moral issue any more than the circulation of blood is a moral issue, both are necessary to health and well-being”. Apparently, what we should learn from these findings is that if you wait until you deserve to think pleasant thoughts, you are likely to think unpleasant thoughts concerning your own unworthiness. You will expect people to make you happy. You’ll expect your wife, mother, brother, sister, boss, friend or relatives to make you happy. You’ll expect politicians to make you happy, successful, wealthy and healthy.
If you have not achieved any great heights academically or otherwise in any spheres of life, there is no reason for you to feel inferior to anyone. This is of course, provided you are still open to reading, learning and thinking, for it is the person who believes he knows everything who is in the worst position of all; because he has blocked his mind and potential to see other possibilities. “Bear in mind that the best education in the world is not necessarily received in a classroom. It can be learnt from the greatest teacher of all – LIFE”.
How Can The Church Build Its Legacy Through Education?
To educate a congregation is a “Calling” but to empower the nation with the teaching of Christ or religions from across all continents is a “Gift” from God. Yet! The Power and the Legacy of the church will be in the archived literature that the church produces to communicate with its congregation and the community it is supposed to serve. A Church Library is a duty every ministry should have as a tool to mobilize its resources to effectively maintain its teachings to keep the “Word” alive and devil or “negative Power” at “Bay while protect vulnerable souls from evil.
So! It goes without saying that no church should be without a library. The library should be part of the communication and education center for all church matters. This means that the church should formulate or establish a team of education and communication members to manage and execute every other matter pertaining to the development, activities and ministry of the church.
Therefore, the literature and its communication deployment within this context should be produced, created and published by the church. All literature should be about the teachings, scriptures and related information that will empower the readers and the congregation. These publications of the churches literature should encompass languages within which the church is able to liaison with the congregation to accommodate African languages, Eastern and Western religious teachings and educational material.
Eight Resources The Church Library Should Never Be Without
However, in the churches’ pursuit to establish its communication media and assign mediums duties and responsibilities, including the churches’ education department- It is only natural that the church should first investigate which curriculum it will need to embrace or follow in order to form or influence the basis of their literature material production. Apart; from choosing people and volunteers in the congregation to offer their skills, expertise and knowledge in the establishment of these new projects; the church should communicate its intention and plans to the congregation including finding community qualified personnel to assist and support these undertaking and efforts.
Anyone who is alive and are able to read and write should at least leave something behind like a legacy when they depart from this world. This topic is not about death and why you will die. It is all about your personal awareness to your existence and the most important role you have played or have yet to play or undermine in your life to deserve a publishing contract.
A majority of us will never make an attempt to tell their story while alive and ticking; simply because they think writing a book needs a special talent or a magic wand to warrant receiving an accolade. This is not true, the myth that you need to be “special and gifted” is just another fallacy to make you think your story is less important to you or us potential readers of your benevolent tale.
Writing a book is no where difficult than it is learning a new skill. Like riding a bicycle or learning how to drive or cook delicious family meals. Everything in life is and has a learning curve and acquiring new skills requires a little more effort and time before one can master it as an art. Yes! Some people are more gifted and talented in writing excellent successful books than others. But this depends on which book genre one needs to exploit to discover their true calling.
Or we can debate this issue to try and find an excuse “why you can’t write” which leaves you with one option. Pretend you’re not alive and history will not remember who you were among people who walked this earth. Any person willing to try writing as a career or hobby can become a successful full-time well paid reputable author if given a chance and the opportunity to try it out without being judgmental about it.
South African black folks have a dilemma and a challenge to deal with reality in the Millennium and the after effects of a honeymoon and the intoxication of a long overdue delusional democracy. It is time for ALL South Africans to wake up and smell the coffee! Since the inception of S.A's democracy it has become a habit for government and our people to find excuses for poor performance, poor time keeping and a lack of discipline in all sectors of their workplace, as a way to determine standards and measure outputs.
As if complacency is part of their job descriptions and their 30% Government Output Expectations is The National KPI's standards setup by Government to measure the countries IQ's to CONTROL and limit potential. How on earth can this country compete internationally, with such low expectations and output drive and determination?
How else can you create jobs and improve the economy when your government policies are in two opposing and conflicting ends of philosophies of socialism and capitalism. It's like spiting sweet venom to wealth creators where unions and public servants demand high wages and perpetuate labor unrest with sustained plans to deliver poor outputs and completely ignore and defy principles of free enterprise systems' potential benefits in a free market economy?
Most leaders in our government institutions and parliament are paper dossier leaders trying to restrain their emotional and personal indulgence of turbulent day-to-day decisions as if they’re managing bedroom crisis only to keep their families happy.
The passing of Mr. Ray Chikapa Phiri on the 12th July 2017 touched me so deep that; I had to find an excuse to write about our local music talent and the untapped treasure of our unsung heroes; let alone the musical geniuses this country has ever produced. Music all over the world is known to be a force that unifies and brings people together. As if to keep hope alive and shower our aspirations and dreams with a renewed meaning to want to push for survival and move on. We are all touched and affected by music in reference to our favorite icons – the world over.
But, when you lose a musical genius and a leader like Ray Phiri, it’s like losing one of your close family relative. We are bound spiritually by music and the bonds we form with musicians. As fans we unravel our humanity when one of us is unsettled or is separated from us physically the pain is unbearable. This tribute cannot do justice to all of our deserving local South African musicians who have passed on and those still alive today. However, my heart goes deep, and back to the early days of our political struggles as a nation. Music became our source of comfort and therapy against aggravation.
“As Blacks” our lives were intertwined but, tainted with despair, turmoil and uneasiness that were destined by Apartheid Masters to decide the fate of our daily bread. Yet, our inner peace was wanting the least trustingly tampered with by the powers that be.
My trip down memory-lane was reminiscing of the good old days and how history can turn around to play our feelings against our intellect. It’s unimaginably difficult to know whether our lives are just another episode of time attempting to redefine our unity of purpose and self-indulgence with individual musical tastes and obsessions. Or we simply survive and face adversity because someone has their music turned on?
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