The New Comrade

I believe that every human being on earth is a comrade. Why? Because like it or not, we are all constantly engaged in a struggle to make our lives better, our pains a little bearable and our enemies a little non-existent.

The first privilege

Over the weekend I was at the 1335 Studios doing a live recording on Mega Radio with Ntate J Modise. We successfully recorded one of our Divine Construction Series sermons. The sermon was titled Let G.O.D do His J.O.B on Y.O.U. What a great sermon it was, and by a stroke of luck we captured the recording on MTTV (Mega TellThemVision) as well. The sermon was a continuation on the State of The Nigga Address, which we recorded on MTTV two weeks before. In these bible-based sermons I address the struggles of “black” people and go through the bible to illustrate how we have been turned into street kids in the Seven Houses of our lives. I explained how the we have become losers in many areas of our lives because we have left God out. I also show how life has forced us into becoming comrades because of the constant struggles in those seven areas I call the Seven Houses.

House 1: The Spiritual House

House 2: The Mental House

House 3: The Emotional House

House 4: The Physical House

House 5: The Financial House

House 6: The Relationship House

House 7: The Social House

Now, when you look closely at these Seven Houses, you will see that we all live in these houses, or are supposed to live in them. However, most of these houses are in chaos and cause a lot of frustration for the people living in them. Sometimes we are forced to flee these houses and live on the streets because there are ghosts in these houses. For instance, me and my beautiful girlfriend recently vacated our Relationship House because it was too spooky or lonely for us to live in it. Most people who shoot people or commit suicide have also vacated their Emtional House. But my take is that these Seven Houses of our lives must be built by God. We need a foundation that is based on the Word of God. These means as the new comrades we need to somehow have a house that won't fall on us and crash our heads. We need safe houses that have been built by God Himself or the Creative Force that brought us into being. That was the first privilege over the weekend.

The second privilege

On Tuesday morning I had breakfast with one of the greatest comrades I have ever met in my life, Dr Cival Mills. This brave man was a medical intern in when he slept on the wheel of his Rover and crashed into tree after returning from a long shoft at the hospital he was working at. The car accident left his muscles “locked-in,” in what doctors call “Locked-In-Syndrome.” This means he can not use his muscles, here, expect for his eyes and his thumb, which he used to write a 120-paged book titled This Too Shall Pass. Now meeting him was a privilige because he taught me that patience is a virtue (It took him 4 years to write the book, only using his thumb). And he spends his days only communicating through a mini computer on which he types the words he wants to say and then presses something that makes the computer speak the words for him. That's how he wrote the amazing book. And that's how he had an interview with me. I asked him if it was easy being wheelchair bound since he has been living in this condition for seven years. He said, “No, it's not easy but I handle it.” What a comrade. I must acknowledge that while I admire his courage, I do not admire to live in his Physical House, I doubt if I'd have made it enough to write a book and I don't need God to prove it to me. However, he was a breath of fresh air, teaching me how faith and hope can keep you alive. Suprisingly, the doctor also earns more than I do in his condition. He is a researcher for Discovery Life and works from his computer. More daring of him, the doctor lives alone, not because he has no family, but because he wants his parents to know he can make it on his own. Damn, I'm still living with my moms. That's a struggle I need to conquer. But indeed it was a privilege. Thank you very much Dr Mills.

Now, this is just a way to telll the world that we can become new comrades (no, comraids) and confront the struggles in our lives. There are so many struggles, can't count them all but I can summarise them under the Seven Houses. And so can you! It is time we commit to becoming The New Comraids. The Comraid Niggas of Christ. We are conducting a massive raid on poverty, on disease and disability, on strees and depression, on social tensions. We are The New Comraids. It's no longer just that “we can do it,” no, We Are Doing It.

Have a lovely Day.