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THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA


Zimbabwe invest in causing a mind shift in the character of your people

A nation's success depends on the character of its people. If Zimbabwe is to be
successful in reviving its economy and all its decaying institutions, the character
of its get-rich-quick business fratenity has got to change, the character of its
black marketers has got to change, the character of most of its people who had become corrupt, unprofessional and unethical in their business conduct in order to
counter hyper-inflation has got to change. A nation's success is not even dependent
on the security of the nation or its leaders alone because if the character of its people is such that they are resistant to the good sustainable policies that the leaders try to implement for the development of the nation, it will not succeed.
Zimbabwe's leaders should learn from the people of ancient China, who sought protection from the barbaric hordes from the north by erecting the Great Wall of China. It was too high to scale, too thick to tear down and too long to go around, yet during the first 100 years of the wall's existance, China was invaded three times. How was the security breached? The enemies simply bribed the gatekeepers and then marched easily through the gate. The fatal flow in China's security lay in spending its wealth to build a wall but paying much less to build the character of its gatekeepers.

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My wish is to be:

Love - So that I ensure that noone's heart gets hurt.
Peace - In order to silence that constant chatter in people's minds
that causes them turmoil.
Happiness - So that I engulf the lives of everyone and eliminate the
word sadness from the face of the earth.
Life - In order that all those who are dying maybe reborn.
Success - So that I reward the hard workers.
The Christian Faith - In order that I encourage Christlike behaviour.
Wisdom - So that I can be the mind opener to the unwise.
Truth - In order that I expose the wolves in sheep clothing and
the skeletons in the cupboards.
A tear - So that insensitive hearts can cry.
A smile - In order that I spread a cheer on people's faces and remove all those frowns.


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I will still love

Over the weekend I got into a gloomy mood thinking about why I was hurt three months ago in a love relationship and in my quest for answers I started reading the email exchanges between him and myself from the very first day we met each other online. Words of loving and longing from start to finish. I was in Zim, and he was in Oz. As I read over the emails I could sense the intense emotion that was there in the emails on the screen, and I remembered how those very words would make me tingle all over with feelings of love. I asked myself how then that man could have turned around and betrayed me and hurt me. I wondered if that's just the way long distance relationships are, that in time the loving hearts and loving thoughts just fade away because of lack of physical contact. To me that seemed strange indeed, how can those intense love feelings that permeated through geographic boundaries suddenly turn from priority to invisible without warning. Or was I so engrossed in the idea of being in love that I failed to see the tell-tale signs.

I guess that's life and what makes it so great is that we are alive and know that if a heart can be broken then it can be fixed and if it can be lost then it can be won.
Sometimes love sure hurts but what would life be without it? To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries, avoid all entanglements, lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness....
That would be a hellish heartless kind of life and I personally wouldn't enjoy such a life which is devoid of love. Love, though it hurts sometimes, makes my life worth living, it brings peace, happiness and excitement into life.
I repeat, to love is to take risks, to expose our hearts. Yes sometimes it hurts. It hurt Christ, but he kept on loving, even at the cost of his life. Loving is Christ-like and its better than locking your heart in a coffin of self-centredness.
Even though love has hurt me over and over again I will continue to love because loving is what I do, its what I as a Christian am known for. Take note that the only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers...of love is hell. So if you are living a loveless life you are actually living in hell.