The mid 50's got themselves on a new hobby: movies. It was a nice feeling watching romantic ones as it is nice to watch the English Premiere League these days. Romance sold a lot and always topped box office. I guess for obvious reasons. The curiosity for the goodies that are found in marriage. Real life is normal if you push it towards the trends, it ceases to be normal. So pushed towards the trends it was. Parents and good people having seen the goodies in the goodies films of Friday evenings encouraged their young ones to date at the theatres. So life goes, marketers go after the trends as well. So began pushing the world towards abnormal to sale more.
Kids are clueless. What parents encourage, they follow. So they followed and followed and did they follow. But in real life what they learned to be true, wasn't. It does not exist anyway. What is AIDS, what is HIV? Around this time it also existed. Why, people did not find it taboo to have one night stands. Real love doesn't exist. Taught the actors for their own love did not exist as well. What is love? Can one cheat on their husband and still be loved? Can a husband watch another man have it with his wife and still love her because all that she was doing was just work? Of course money pays, marketers marketed in this country where marketers have been lazy to the extent of changing laws putting real lives of people in jeopardy to sale a bottle of coke. What? Just a bottle? A whole human life for a bottle of coke? Love, let's set the trends let others follow. Have you seen your necklace? It's in trendy these days. Have you seen the Romans? Everybody else in the world do what they do. The world is hungry for Romans. Do you know what the Romans do? They conform their minds after the will of God.
Let's go back to the Bible and set the trends for the world.
We can not act like the world does. We will go Mr & Mrs Smith way. Dodging bullets. Wanna go on the dance flow and learn to tango on the fly? You never know when the world calls for you to teach it a lesson, you know. Ready in season and out of season. And dodging bullets of the devil. I tell you if you do it with and for God, the devil gets attacks from a thousand dimensions. And finds no where to run. Such is life and joy as God can give.
Hollywood: you can't put a mouse in front of cheese and expect it not to eat. Here in Malawi we put groundnuts where Hollywood puts cheese. The result is the same.
Sexual attraction has no hero. Joseph had to run away. But look where it got him into? In prison. Does it stop there? It got him up and up and up. He became the vice president of Egypt. And Egypt ruled the world at that time. It was the only country which had food[let not the world buy food from us at so cheap a price, let not fao buy so much, disappear with it and sell it to us. If they set tobacco prices, let's set the maize prices. It's not cheap to cultivate. This is our time.]
You never know where each road leads to until you get there. But it is true all roads lead to Rome. They were built by Romans anyway why should they not lead to Rome? But not everyone who travels a road get to Rome.
By the way if all roads lead to Rome how do you get there if you are in Hollywood? At least if you in Bollywood or Mollywood, you can go their by road. Even us in Malawi can get there because we don't have to cross the ocean. Look, love, Hollywood crosses the ocean to get real love. We don't have to. We just walk to Rome. We are much better.
And of those going to Rome, some people get stuck in the loop of the maze. Roam, roam, roam will they roam and never get to Rome. Where is Rome? You need a map sometimes. There are many maps you say? Depends on where you are going.
Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No body gets to heaven but by me". How many maps are there did you say?
So here goes a test of faiths: What am I doing on this path? Where does this path go? Will I recognize what I must find there?
When in Rome, do what Romans do. What do Romans do? If you don't know, you will find yourself in Venice and sell your soul. For there are some cities in which people sell their souls. I must tell you this secret so that you may know what to find and do in Rome:
Paul a Servant of Jesus, as I also strive to be, told the Romans, "I beseech thee brethren, by the mercies of God, that Ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable before God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to the standards of the world: but be Ye transformed to this renewing of your mind, that Ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
That got them the word of approval so much that it was said, when in Rome do what Romans do.
P/S: Paul preached and worked. I like his wisdom of working and serving. I would like to work for my living and preach with no strings attached.
I am sure good jobs exist that don't give such a taxing time. Lecturing is one of them. I have sort this lecturing job way too long. It would do itself good to come and find me home.
I mean, for all that I can do and have learned and practiced, why should I fail to have a single job?
For sleeping and eating and preaching and teaching things you know with all the time in the world, is way too easy a job for one not to one to resist. But look no-one is paying me. How do I buy bread for my family? Better a little job than handouts.
Still I have stayed here for too long. God knows when I shall move on.