Old road

Old road never leads to new places, let me say it louder; OLD ROADS NEVER LEADS TO NEW PLACES.
It leads to buildings you don't wanna see, bus stops you don't want to stop at again, windows you would not climb any more, veranda/ porch you don't want to seat on anymore, houses you don't want to be invited in anymore.

Old road leads to your old friends with your history. The first thing they greet you with is " Do you remember when you got drunk and roll the car, do you remember when you were dating so and so, remember when you stole candy from that shop"? some past you are not interested in.

They don't know your latest improvements in your new life and venture that are moving you forward.
Old roads leads the pain and confusion of being young and restless, which in most occasion was purely not wise.
When you wanted to be free but you could not afford it, you wanted to fly but your wings were still being developed, where you wanted and demanded your space in somebody Else's house and you did not even have your own key.
Old roads leads to old habits that can destroy what you have work hard for, don't allow anyone to praise you based on your youthful stupid behaviours.

New roads leads to new interesting places, new friend who believe and support your vision, new and different possibilities, a different game plan and paradigm shift.
New roads have no history, only the present and the future.

Not everything is bad about old roads, there are priceless memories to treasure, the problem is no one cares to remember them.
Remember one thing, a new road for you, can be an old road for me.
Let me guide and care for you....
QBMthethwa
qbmthethwa2.blogspot.co.za

My Pillow

Hush my pillow, don't say a word.
Pity I can't lie to you, you are too smart for me.
You know my joy full moments, confused moments and my sad moments.
You the second person after the trinity who knows my unspoken joy or pain.
I can successfully avoid everyone but you, as I have to retire and lean on your comfort.
When I bought you, I never knew that I will have to trust you with everything.
Let me say I never planned to confine in you, but you have a way reading my emotions and just comfort me in silent.

How I wish that people close to me can comfort me like you do without judging and lecturing me.
My pillow you are the best at what you do.
You absorb my tears as if nothing happened.
I have tried telling people my shortcomings and the next day I was on the front page of the tabloid.
Amazingly even the pillow cases are confused why I keep on changing them and not you.
They thought they were the best because of the complements they sometimes get.
I'm glad I came to know you my pillow.
I'm glad I can trust you.
Thank you for comforting me when I need it most.
QBMthethwa
qbmthethwa2.blogspot.co.za

Yesterday is gone:

I was sick yesterday,
I was unemployed yesterday,
I was angry yesterday,
I was a nobody yesterday,
I was alone yesterday,
Yesterday is gone and it will never come again.
I was not loved and liked yesterday,
I was a sinner yesterday,
I was bankrupt yesterday,
I was homeless yesterday,
I was weak yesterday,
Yesterday is history that I can never rewrite.
I was high yesterday,
I was a drunkard yesterday,
I was an abuser yesterday,
I was reckless yesterday,
I was abused yesterday,
Yesterday was my dark cloud and today is my blue sky.
I was confused yesterday,
I was poor yesterday,
I was guilty yesterday,
I was unproductive yesterday,
I was selfish yesterday.
Yesterday lost his battle to today, because today I'm a new man.
Yesterday was when it all went down for the last time.
Yesterday I found myself at the cross roads of the Cross.
Yesterday Christ payed the price on the Cross.
QBMthethwa
qbmthethwa2.blogspot.co.za

Child of the most high God:
Have a blessed day and a holy week ahead of you. I pray for God's unmerited favour called Grace upon you now,  this week you will receive from God what the world work hard for because of the Grace of God by Jesus Christ on the Cross.
Be kind to someone, invite a person or a friend for lunch, check for clothes you are not using and bless someone less fortunate. Buy somebody new clothes and meet their needs. Buy some some groceries, so then have food like the rest of us. Take someone out for lunch, have a family lunch and bring some small gifts.
Tell a person you meet on the street that Jesus loves him/ her.
Take advantage of this week and Spread love and forgiveness.
qbmthethwa2.blogspot.co.za

Parent like you are parenting Royalty

Your child will be somebodies neighbour one day
Your child will be a contributing member of the community one day.
Your child will be somebodies employer or employee one day.
Your child will be somebodies wife or husband one day.
Your child will be somebodies father, mother, aunt or uncle one day.

All the characters that your child is likely to become have a very heavy responsibility on them.
Are you creating a leader with character, ethics and endurance then as a parent.
Will we count on him or her when we talk about community parenting?
Can it be that with this catastrophic society, your parenting skills are to blame, or at question?
You not only spoiling that child for yourself, one day the brat will be out of the house and find that there is no room for him or her out there.
Should the world start fixing what you prepared in secret?
The streets are not as forgiving as your home boundaries.
You can not spoil a child in the name of "I grow up without this and I want my child to have it"
Material things does not show love or build a bond, they are a reward for being well disciplined and being a good  child, not so that your child can keep quiet.
I have seen children when they cry they are given a cell phone, not a dummy phone, the S5.
*Warning; that is just a start of a powerful Venomous, destructive relationship. Soon you will be saying he or she never listen to me, because when you were suppose to be talking to a child, you gave him or her a phone, now she/ he is old and the phone does not appeal anymore.

Proverbs23:13 "Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
14 Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death.

Those are the children with a (No Entry) sign at their room door, in your own house. Uyandina(you are annoying) living in your house as if you are afraid of loosing votes, you are a parent for God's sake, you were never voted in that seat.
The excuse can not be in single parenting all the time, my mother raised 3boys and 4girls single handed when my father was in the big city working and we saw him once a month.
Those were the bad times of the 80's and 90's, with political unrest and all. Many other woman and man went through single parenting and made it.
Money, TV and expensive clothes can never substitute your sound teaching, voice and authority.
Stop parenting like they do next door, you are not Ed gars Active and Sport Scene, you are neighbours. You children's are not walking displays.
Stop parenting the way your child wants you to parent them and do the right thing.

Proverbs22:6 "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it"

I really have nothing against brands for children, however you know as a parent when things are out of your hand, when you do it to keep peace in the house, when you do it so that I wont leave school, when you do it because my friends also has them. Soon it will be this one is out of fashion or I saw another kid from another school has it, I don't want it anymore.

There is no proper age for children to be taught, the earlier the better, at age 6/7 you may be late if you say you waiting for them to understand. It's not a matter of understanding but growing up with it.

QB Mthethwa
qbmthethwa2.blogspot.co.za

Are you a Child or a curse?

I really don't understand when does parents and children swap roles. You can not afford to be a child and a man or woman in the same person and depend on me. If you are still a child and depending on your parent, choices are limited and sometimes they don't exist at all.
If you feel that now you are a man or a woman, you DATING, you SMOKE, you DRINK ALCOHOL, then it's time to move out, get your own place, pay your own rent, invite us to come over for a braai and congratulate you on your big achievement.
Everybody under your roof should be going to church with you, I don't understand parents living children behind on Sunday.
You may not remember, but there was a time when you could not do a thing for yourself, and depended fully on your parents to carry you, feed you, bath you, wipe your behind, even sleepless nights when you came down with fever, took you by hand to school. Today you claim that nothing was done for you, now that is triple stupid.
Do you really think play station, sleep overs, branded clothes determine the level of love?
Proverbs17:21 "To have a fool for a son brings grief; there is no joy for a father of a fool". Same applies to daughters.
The celebrities you hang on our walls and put as profiles on the phone that we bought as parents and we still continue buying bundles and airtime for it, and never get to be on the profile pic.
Those celebs respect and love their parents, they sing about "buy my mom a house", and appreciating them.
2Pac "Dear Mama" Shaquil O'Neil "Phil is my father"  Casper "Mama I made it".
You aspire to be like them but you don't respect your parents, forget about it. You never clean your own room, you don't cook yet you always hungry, you ask for airtime and never call to say what time you coming back.
You are biting the hand that feeds you.
Exodus 20:12 "Honour your father and your mother, SO THAT YOU MAY LIVE LONG IN THE LAND THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU".
Stop cutting your life, your career, talent, education short. You are not successful because you don't know if you are a boy or a man, a girl or a woman.
Where do you get audacity to exchange words with your parents, what do you know about step mother or step father. The fact that she is your mother or your father's choice means she or he is your parent, and you have to treat them with respect for making sure that your butt is covered and your tummy is full, you have roof over your head and transport for school, shoes on your feet.
Your big mouth is your biggest downfall and also your stumbling block. You are likely not to succeed pass the achievements of your parents, if you lucky because of being ungrateful for what they bend over backwards for, to make sure that you are not that much different from other children.
The most fortunate thing is that you still have your parents and you can still make right with them. Humble yourself and apologise, naming everything one by one, don't just say I'm sorry for all, you need to make them understand what are you sorry for.
Your single parent needs to know that he/ she can depend on you someday, the fact that they are single means they have been through a lot already, and now the person who is suppose to be their consolation is also adding to their long list of hurts, you can do better than that.
Own up, grow up and be responsible...
QB Mthethwa.
qbmthethwa2.blogspot.co.za

Africa (Izwe Lethu)

*You are more than enough, you are the jewel of the world.
Everybody want a piece of you, they don't get tired of extracting your minerals in the name of a signature on the dotted line.
Everybody wants a one sided relationship with you, where you give and they take, never to give back to you.
Your children lack bread while theirs play with it as children play pillow fight.
Even when they know in their heart that there is no balance or justice in what they do, they still point at the document.
Their conscience is dead when they are alive and walking among us.
*The devil in them can not set them free, he has sunk his nails in their flesh, even when they feel like letting go they are held back by their greedily souls and hunger for power.
*Africa you are rich in minerals resources and culture, yet you have the poorest of the poor.
*Children in Europe will never know what is it like to look for a job as their generations continue to benefit from trusts setup by the blood and sweat of our mother land.
Who am I to know and say all this, when those who knows the truth have been silenced by a fat cheque in exchange of their soul, that is from the devil too.
*I am the son of the soil, a patriot and a voice in darkness, darkness in day light, darkness created by those who harvest where they never planted.
A Nguni by descendant of king Dingiswayo Mthethwa, Nyambose, a Zulu by king Shaka Zulu, the brave and fearless warriors of old.
*Anginavalo, angesabi a man can only kill flesh as they have done before but the spirit of God lives on and the innocent blood cries out screaming #FreeAfrica.
*The Gold, Diamond and Coal in South Africa. Natural gas in Mozambique, oil in Nigeria & Libya, copper belt in Zambia, Diamonds in Angola, cement in Zimbabwe to mention but the few.
*America is now dumping their unwanted, 3rd grade chicken in South Africa,  with their noses breathing threats if agreement is no reached, killing our own #Rainbowchicken, farmhouse, Goldie and many other small enterprises.
*America worship money than God, only in their currency God is visible.
*They took God out of their schools and we, blind, ignorant South Africans follow suit, our schools don't pray anymore, now our government is trying to regulate churches and make them pay tax, they are afraid of traditional healers/ black magic, its all satanic in different form, size and shape.
*China and Asia has brought more than enough finish product in South Africa and building China malls every where, killing our textile industries all over South Africa. Local factories and manufacturing industries have since closed doors, leaving scores of unemployed bread winners, cars and homes reclaimed by the banks and personal loans unsettled
If they want equal relationship, they must not bring finished product but rebuild factories locally and employ locals, now that is empowerment.
*BRICS is not even close to addressing these matters, its all just a fancy, handsome abusive husband who beat you at night and give you a medical aid card in the morning, I hope we have a good funeral policy.
*In all honesty, we don't need the resources of the world/west but the world need us Africa.
*They have build the economy to favour themselves, even in the worse case scenario of a fallen dollar, the strongest Rand, Pula or Naire can never be a match, how much more on a pound?
We need a commonwealth for Africa.
Lets trade among our selves.
Lets use one currency for Africa.
Teach indigenous language and keep one medium of instruction.
My prayer goes to Israel and peace for Jerusalem, the land of the promise, Genesis12:2,3. Hosea11.
QB Mthethwa

Out of wedlock:1

I do not wish for anyone to have a child out of wedlock because it never end well, and marks the beginning of a long challenging life for many, with high impact on the child.
I have been there and no one should experience that.
Every child deserves a stable, warm and a loving home. The challenge start when you stoped playing games and you finally found yourself someone to spend your life with, but you don't know how are they gonna treat your child, or how your child is gonna react to them.
Children from previous relationships suffer internal bleeding.
Other people don't like kids, not because they hate them, but would rather cook or clean than entertain kids. A child can sense tension about him or her in the house, then silly mistakes start happening because he or she is not free, glasses start to break, dishes not washed properly, any Innocent look from a child raises concern.
The child just gets totally clumsy and that, becomes a point of departure, "I'm good for nothing" that's what goes on their mind.
A child is like a blank diary that we as parents write on everyday, crafting and preparing them for the future. Our positive words of wisdom and warm gestures will serve as a guide in their life of choice.
My question is, what guide will negative words and emotional abuse be to a child?.
Many seniors parents today boast more about their adopted children than their own biological children, they get frequent visits, more money, love and care from these children.
Many parents make a mistake of treat children as per their colleague's experience, not knowing that person's method of parenting.....TBC
QB Mthethwa

What about you and I:

The sun was made to shine and make us warm.  May we as well bring warmth and comfort to ourselves, family, friends, loved ones and a simple man on the street. The rain was made to fall. Without rain the earth is not the same, grass and trees won't grow as green as they should and produce what is required.
A fall can be a huge blessing sometimes, bringing you closer to where things are happening.
The wind was made to blow, and it helps us in removing dust from covering the earth in a worse way.
The waves were made to toss back and forth, constantly taking out dirty things out of the sea. The river was made to flow to the sea providing fresh water.
Every person has to be that flow to somebodies life and bring them refreshing. We live in a stress full world, the things we chase after, the food we eat, high noise and traffic can contribute negatively not only in your system but our health as well. You need that friend who will push you to take a walk, staircases than elevator or go to the gym with.
The night was made for the stars to shine. Not every dark cloud in your life carries bad news. Some if not all come for your own good. Don't die or giver in your dark situation of unemployment, dis functional marriage, sinful environment,  loosening a child or loved one, but shine.
The fire was made to burn, that's all it knows, to burn. Fire purify and renew, it cooks to to perfection. If you feel like you going through fire today, you are not being destroyer but given a new long life span, prepared for the highest table of kings and queens.
All these things are successful in their day and night duties.
Find out why you were created and pursue it with all your might, you will prosper and be successful in your purpose...
QB Mthethwa

Time with South African Police Service

This was a day well spent with the South African Police Service(SAPS) Tsakane East Rand of Johannesburg. I was invited by the station commander on his lecture to motivate his member's. Some of the point I motivated the members with are,
1. Pray before you start your shift.
2. The force is your first family.
3. You dont have a job, but a calling.
4. There will never be a salary enough in exchange of your life.
5. Dont take a complement that undermine your fellow members.
I love talking to the members of the force and assure them that they are doing a great job.
I love my country South Africa, the best country in the world, love your country and do something about it too.

Shalom
QB Mthethwa