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The Wanderer: Part 37 of 73
The Wanderer by Callie Roos, motivational speaker and author
Part 37 of 73
“What do you mean? I ask. “You minister where you are. To live, to do every day; that is ministry. Why do you want to go there? You can minister here. Every day as you learn, as you walk ahead, every decision, isn’t that ministry? To be in the bush is ministry. To smell this place is ministry.”
“No, you don’t understand,” I say. “I mean Ministry, as in work.” “I don’t understand you,” Xaba interrupts me hurriedly. “Wherever you work, you minister, it’s living. You live from inside. We must just live where we are, every day. That is good enough. That is what the Father planned for us in any case.
Damn it, you people are so mixed up!” It has been a long time since I saw Xaba this impatient. These thoughts are making him cross. “Yes, it may well be so,” I say. “But life does not work that way, my friend. First you need papers and then you must take up your place and position in the Ministry with your papers. I need a congregation. Without a place there is nothing.” “That is what I don’t understand about your kind,” Xaba mumbles.
“What?” I ask. “You are place-beguiled. In the old days it was also like that. Look how ostentatious your places are! Why can’t you just be? There where you are – that becomes the place.
That is how it should be: natural, spontaneous, normal.
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Callie Roos is a motivational speaker, teambuilding and leadership expert in South Africa.
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The Wanderer: Part 38 of 73
The Wanderer written by Callie Roos, motivational speaker, author, teambuilding and leadership expert in South Africa
Part 38 of 73
Where you are every day; that is where you will find God. Ever since you began needing a specific place for each aspect of your lives, your heads are so chaotic. Here where we are right now: the pool, Rundu, Saturday; this is the place. You and me; this is the place. You are too busy. That is why you never find peace.
You don’t even become still on the Day of Rest. It is a big mistake. The Father set you free from being bound to a place more than two thousand years ago, but no, you have to go right back there!” “I understand, but that is not how it works,” I try once more.
“You created the way it works, and you can change it again too,” Xaba counters immediately. “You can change it yourself.” “It’s not that easy Xaba,” I retort. “Do you know what your problem is?” Xaba says. “Your kind always wants to own everything. Control freaks. You think you have to collect a pile of stuff on the planet and then control it.
You control people too! Then you are rich and successful, then things are going well. Then you spend the rest of your lives trying to protect the stuff you have collected with policies, rules and regulations.
In the end, the stuff you own, owns you.
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About the Author:
Callie Roos is a motivational speaker, teambuilding and leadership expert in South Africa.
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The Wanderer: Part 1 of 73
The Wanderer by Callie Roos, motivational speaker and author
Part 1 of 73
The white stinkwood tree broke right down the trunk. Three parts,” I say to Xaba. “It’s so depressing. It was the biggest tree in the garden. The children used to swing on it when they were small. Good memories. Maybe it signifies something?”
“What?” asks Xaba. “The tree falling over…. I am turning fifty this year, you know.” Xaba peers at me, considering the thought. “Since when do you believe in such nonsense?” he wants to know. I wait for him to say something. There is silence for a while, then he reacts. “The tree just did what it had to do.”
“What’s that?” I ask. “Move on,” he says. “What do you mean?” “Everything moves…. on. Look around you. Everything you see is moving. Nothing stands still.” My eye catches the chair I inherited from my grandfather, a particularly beautiful chair. It is more than 100 years old and fragile. I don’t really want anyone to sit on it anymore, in case it breaks. The chair is also moving on, I think. “Everything is on the move,” Xaba interrupts my thoughts. “Even you. You are getting older. I can see that you are changing. You are different these days.” “What do you mean?” I ask. “More obstinate!” he retorts. “Why are you giving me a hard time now?” I want to know. “We are talking about the white stinkwood.” He smiles as though he had just been waiting for the right moment. Xaba is the first to begin speaking again. “People want everything to stay the same. No change. Keep everything as it was in the old days – if only we could go back to the way things were. But it does not work that way,” he says. “It was not meant to be like that. We were made for only one thing, and that is to be able to change. To move on.”
“Scary!” I say softly. “And now that is the one thing that wears us down the most. We fight this thing, the one thing we should really be good at,” says Xaba “… and that is to change, to just move on.”
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About the Author:
Callie Roos is a motivational speaker, teambuilding and leadership training expert in South Africa.
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