Sir Mlis (Jnr) an independent strategist, author, social visionary & paediatrician with interest in the philosophy and impacts of relationships in all shades
Every heart is a pulsating creative library with most inner shelves closed and treasures untapped. Many too passive to open the tender pages; others too fatigued and dulled by life’s noises to let them speak to us. Sadly each is a whole curriculum on reality, waiting to be read.
Pain can be real, but is not royal.
Wounds loud, but must not lead.
Covenant with truth means that pain must serve, and not sit on the throne.
(Isa 53:10)
Quizzical Quips: Only the purity of selfless love is what makes parenting noble.
It gives Mentorship without Ownership,
Offering Service without Self-interest.
Supporting Destiny without Demand.
What pastors don’t tell us:
“Pain, like power, was authored by God for self-regulation — but is always hijacked by the Devil, and then gets mismanaged by humans”
Musings: "Be what you want to be" is the seductive mantra of psychomutation.
It sounds empowering, but denies that there is something you were meant to be. Being ‘meant’ implies that there’s an author of meaning.
The deception is not in the dream, but in the erasure of the Author of Identity and Purpose.
#LiveDialogues He says “marriage is overrated” and I assert, “Let’s modify that view a bit: Marriage is hollowed out, falsified, and overrated. So in my view the true ‘blueprint marriage’ is actually underrated and overtaken by glamorised social lies.”
Good people need to be reminded that goodness is generally fighting a losing battle because of pervasive deception — but most of all “Goodness Never Gives Up Even In A Losing Battle!”
Silent Subcultures of Patriarchy: Mean men greet a woman intrusively and then feel entitled to conversation. And their sons also learn to behave the same — and worse.
There is irritatingly much abuzz about so-called ‘Black Tax’ in SAzania.
This is a sad misnomer — driving a perversion of what is, in truth,
a sacred African culture of communal social responsibility.
Betrayal of Failure: Failure is a teacher which gets betrayed by being denied its opportunity for imparting wisdom. The
deepest tragedy is then not failure itself, but our inability to derive the intended lesson.