I have to admit, I always wondered what this part of Psalm 23 meant. I thought “He anoints my head with oil” was figurative language for God keeping the Psalmist healthy. I never knew this parallel.
Anoint my head with oil
“Sheep can get their head caught in briers and die trying to get untangled. There are horrid little flies that like to torment sheep by laying eggs in their nostrils which turn into worms and drive the sheep to beat their head against a rock, sometimes to death. Their ears and eyes are also susceptible to tormenting insects. So the shepherd anoints their whole head with oil. Then there is peace. That oil forms a barrier of protection against the evil that tries to destroy the sheep. Do you have times of mental torment? Do the worrisome thoughts invade your mind over and over? Do you beat your head against a wall trying to stop them? Have you ever asked God to anoint your head with oil? He has an endless supply! His oil protects and makes it possible for you to fix your heart, mind, and eyes on Him today and always! There is peace in the valley! May our good good Father anoint your head with oil today so that your cup overflows with blessings! God is good and He is faithful!!”
TADIWANASHE MARUMANI SPECIAL
Zimbabwe's star wicketkeeper batter Marumani smashes 'GIGANTIC SIX' which just doesn't clear the boundary but the entire stadium.
Life doesn't reward intelligence, degrees, talent, morality or any of that nonsense losers tell themselves. It rewards efficiency, it's that simple. You'll watch people who you think are less deserving or any other kind of less than you, get the things you think you deserve, because they're bold enough to go after it. Anything you don't have, you don't deserve it, if you did, you'd have it.
We now have a handout culture in Zimbabwe. MaGoFundMe and begging for luxuries awanda for people's personal lifestyle choses yet many real causes are no longer getting donations.
I've seen the trends in my inbox: someone messaging me links for their kids to go to Europe for hockey Vs 5yrs ago when people used to message for their kids to get Holiday Jobs placements. Me I’m a small boy. Imagine maInbox anaWicknel.
Money is a ledger of Value. You get money by Value creation. You create value by providing valuable GOODS and SERVICES.
Go on YouTube and search the “Returned from South Africa” teams mushrooming with all grown men begging for money to maintain their lifestyles instead of using their exposure and head start of managing to have lived abroad … kudaSoft life wamwe tiri muMunda? GTFOH
It started with Politicians and grifters. bulletproof cars that never arrived. Car and cash hand outs for praise and worship sycophants and brown nosers.
We must do better as a population.
Ini ndiriku Ma”Mine” digging daily for proverbial gold and people want help them marry?
We must do better comrades and stop handing out to able people. There are many many real causes we must donate to.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
📸 The government has acquired hundreds of vehicles for prosecutors. These are the scenes outside the Harare Magistrates Court where prosecutors will be handed keys to their new wheels
We need to strike a balance between ambition and contentment.
Had a deep conversation with a colleague.
Tichangobuda muHigh Court taona bango remota bvatavhunzana kuti tichafambawo nemota dzakadaro here.
My colleague then said ambition haina kuipa but tisanyanyozvipe pressure. We must be grateful for what we have at the moment. He went on to say kuti at times tichiri kuCollege zvinhu zvakatinya aigona kufamba netsoka from UZ to Market square mutown kuti anobata makombi ekuenda kumba kuBudiriro.
Right now he’s a Partner at a certain law firm in Harare, he’s married with two kids, has a car and built a house for his family. He’s doing quite well.
I then reflected on my past and realised that I’m not yet where I aspired to be but I’m right on track and must be grateful for who/what I’m at the moment.
Ehe hapana chakaipa nekuda bango remota asi ambition ngaisabve yatora mufaro wekutadza kutenda nezvaunazvo. Bango remota tinorishuvira asi hatikanganwe kuti takakura tichisunga ma slippers chaiwo newire zvakatinya. Izvezvi takukwanisa kufamba netwimiskoro skoro twedu from point A to point B. For convenience takukwanisa kubooker InDrive. Even for ma distance anofambwa netsoka nevamwe for 2+ hours isu yekombi tinayo.
Takakura tichipisira sugar kuita masamba asi iye zvino takutoti kana coffee isina EveryDay milk hatimwe. Taidya muriwo usina mafuta asi izvezvi takuti hatidye machunks. Chingwa chaicho takuti kana chisina chinhu hatibate. Sadza kana paside pasina nyama harichadzike asi taiisa margarine muma veggie pasina mafuta. Taidzidza kuzvikoro zvekumusha tichidzingirwa fees yeUS$10 chaiyo asi izvezvi takuti hatina vana vanodzidza murokesheni.
Zvimwe tendaiwo. Muchinge madaro moyeukawo vakakurerai nekukuchengetai mukukura kwenyu.
Things I no longer tell a Zimbabwean, because they will not listen i just watch : 🔥
1. Stop buying luxury cars before you've built an asset portfolio that pays you while you sleep. A depreciating asset is not a flex, it's a slow leak bro a car depreciates fast
2. Stop the ad hoc holidays and "baecations" during your building years. That money doesn't come back with interest it comes back as regret. Build the base first, holiday later
2. Build homes, not monuments. Make them functional, cozy, beautiful not a 3-storey shrine to your ego on land that could've housed three tenants paying you rent. Your primary residence is a liability not an asset
3. Always live a few points behind your income. The gap is where wealth quietly grows
4. Your 20s, 30s and 40s are the build. It's only in your 50s the report card comes out , it will be clear who was compounding and who was spending for flex kufadza chaunga. By the time the 60s knock and it is retirement its almost game over , unless you are Colonel Sanders or Ray Kroc
5. Stop competing with the guy next door you don't even know if he's winning or drowning in debt run your own mile. Life isn't a race, it's a marathon with no spectators who matter. If you do good people talk if you mess up they will still talk. Do you wangu
6. The moment a purchase is for an audience instead of a purpose, you've already lost the plot and probably the money too. Imagine buying a car kuti 'vandione ' thats chibaharanzi LAST
7. Diversify before you decorate your life. Nobody's asset column ever grew because the ceiling was higher
8. A title, a car, and a big house mean nothing to a bank when the income stops. Build what pays you, not what impresses people
Love Rex
The National Dog
The Theater of Power: Economic Injustice 🔥
By Rex M.E Midzi
CAB 3 is now CA 3. The whole Brouhaha regards the matter has died down. Whatever chapter we are on now is the next. I do not want to even dwell on it or frett. It would be an exercise in futility
What is clear is that Zimbabwe is indeed a very confusing theater
The level of wealth we witness is astounding. It is rather common today to look into the sky and a chopper graces our skyline. Private jets, once a novelty, are commonplace nowadays. However, there is always something familiar about this wealth. It is the same faces
Are these the most intelligent? The most enterprising? Who am I kidding
There is a grave injustice because the common man or woman in Zimbabwe has no opportunity to participate. The window is very narrow. This MUST change
I am reminded, in moments such as these, that a nation's economic architecture is never a neutral accident of markets it is always the residue of political choices, made deliberately, by particular men, for particular ends
A generation of African statesmen wiser than ourselves taught us that formal liberation without economic transformation is a revolution left un-finished. I am always instructed by what necessitated our land reform. I am eternally greatful that it happened even with its imperfections
We attained our seat at the assembly of nations on April 18 1980 and yet we have permitted ourselves to construct, in the shadow of that liberation, what can only be described as two Zimbabwes ;
one that ascends by helicopter, and one that struggles , still, for the most elementary means of subsistence. I can assure you this is not capitalism it is most certainly not Gutsaruzhinji as a praxis of socialism
Capitalism, whatever its discontents at minimum promises a contestable field that ingenuity and industry might be rewarded, that the son of the soil might rise by dint of enterprise
What we witness instead is proximity birthes wealth closed guild admitting only those already known to it, a wealth that circulates without ever widening its circle
It is not the market that has failed our people. It is that we have not permitted the market to exist in the first instance
Access to capital, to tender, to licence these remain gated behind relationships. Hell even corruption is gated 😂 ( i make light ). And where opportunity is rationed by proximity to power rather than by the sweat of one's brow, we ought not to call the resulting order an economy at all. It is a court, and we are, all of us, mere supplicants at its threshold
The tragedy is that this arrangement is self-perpetuating. Wealth acquired without contest does not feel obliged to justify itself, and so it need not innovate, need not employ, need not build. Save for perhaps Tungwarara i see some semblance of corporate. The other Zvigananda and the rotor borne gentry , how many do they employ ? What is their tax contribution ? I say the latter is still found wanting nonetheless
Zvigananda class merely accumulates visibly, ostentatiously while the productive energies of millions of ordinary Zimbabweans remain locked outside the gate, unrecognised and unspent
A nation cannot develop on the industry of a few hundred men circling the same trough. Development, properly conceived, is the democratisation of opportunity itself the widening of that narrow window until it is, in fact, no longer a window but a door thrown open to all who would enter it honestly
I am no cynic, I do not begrudge any man his fortune honestly made. I believe Zimbabwe's next chapter must be authored by a different premise entirely. Its next chapter is the realities of CA 3 , an opportunity for those who supretend over us to include ALL who are capable into the economy
Basa Munhu. The dignity of work, restored to the worker and the entrepreneurs yet to employ the worker. That, and nothing less, is the reform this hour demands
1/ IT FELT GREAT TO BE ZIMBABWEAN
After completing my law degree at the University of Zimbabwe, I received a scholarship to study Conflict Resolution at Uppsala University in Sweden.
During one academic break, our class travelled to Cyprus.
Something happened there that I have never forgotten.
Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, uJola, explaining his choice to keep his hair natural and uncombed. The man singlehandedly revolutionized the courts to recognize his Africanness. Huge respect for him.