Kindness The Best Medicine

By Kuki Tusi

The Author is concerned about the milk of human kindness which has gone sour as acts of kindness which are supposed to be treasured and well-guarded; as the language which even the deaf can hear and the blind can see, has been neglected, despite having been Biblically instructed otherwise. By showing kindness to others we might have entertained angels unknowingly thus she openly encourages acts of kindness by illuminating such acts by her notable philanthropists and philanthropy organisations which are involved in such acts of kindness. She explores the teachings and effects of kindness by appealing to her readers to stand up and be counted as salt to the world.

The acts of kindness are limitless and always fashionable and welcomed. She extends her plea to individuals to be kind to one another and to the environment, to become philanthropists and or engage in charity organisations, appeals to the aquariums to consider closing their dolphinariums, the poachers to stop killing elephants for their horns, carnivores to stop killing monkeys for bush meat and fishers to stop overfishing before fish go extinct.

Considering that a healthy relationship with God requires both faith and works; the way we treat others tests the health of our relationship with God as it reveals whether we see all people as created by God, choosing to meet their needs as they are set before us. At the end of the day, mere words, do nothing to alleviate physical needs. It takes action, born of compassionate faith, to help and to heal both human beings and our environment. Nature is not the only thing that offers a glimpse into God’s character. Many of us know people whose lives bear a similar witness to God’s presence. We can see a consistent, humble picture of kindness and grace in the daily lives of faithful people living out their call in our communities.

There are no limits, let us join in;
the more the merrier.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kuki Tusi
• Release date: Aug 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005247294

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KINDNESS

The Best Medicine

Kuki Tusi

Copyright © 2020 Kuki Tusi

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Dedication

I dedicated my first two published books, Expectations and Protesting, to a host of deserving people. I feel that with all the hard work, effort, sacrifices and sleepless nights, I also deserve a dedication thus I have dedicated this book to myself, especially for having blossomed from the very same mud I had been buried in.

There is a reason why I write and I aim to make it worthwhile. I really deserve a pat on the back, cheers to me!

Table of Contents

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

1. Chapter 1 Notable Philanthropists

2. Chapter 2 Charity Organisations

3. Chapter 3 Teachings on Kindness

4. Chapter 4 Effects of Kindness

5. Chapter 5 My Appeal

6. Chapter 6 Kindness to Self

7. Chapter 7 Kindness to the Environment

8. Chapter 8 No Limits

Conclusion

References

Preface

While nobody can teach you who you are, your heart is what matters the most thus a good head and a good heart are always a daunting combination. This is the truth and the truth is like the sun; you can shut it up but it will not go away. God commands that we look beyond each person’s condition and act in kindness toward people’s needs. Only then shall we find profound favour in God’s sight. Jesus even told us where to look: among the hungry, thirsty, strangers, vulnerable, sick and imprisoned. From their dark predicaments, their faces will reveal the light.

God created the great diversity of things so that the perfection lacking on one would be supplied by the others. Instead, we tend to build barriers in the form of immigration policies instead of bridges, (look no further than Donald Trump’s wall) to polarise instead of uniting and to alienate instead of being kind thus this encouragement in the form of a plea, this story to share and this stand to take since the language of common good, which comes when we all bring our individual gifts to create the whole, seems to be missing nowadays.

There is no darkness too deep or too thick to keep the light of the world from breaking forth as we are called to bear God’s light to others who walk the earth in places where that light seems absent thus we have been made in God’s image and have been given life so that this light can antagonise and revitalise the death-dealing darkness which threatens to extinguish life. Darkness cannot drive out darkness but light; just as hatred cannot drive out hatred but love. Our task is to clothe ourselves in the gifts of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, patience and love and to also accept the bindings of forgiveness and peace; all of which we should wear in life- changing ways. Let us therefore support the weak, be selfless and give in kind without looking for personal gain and or expecting something in return for it is blessed to give than to receive. Those who received gifts, cash, financial assistance in the form of properties, cars, home renovations, overseas trips, electric fences, CCTV Systems, cameras, security upgrades, liquor and meat from Bosasa (now African Global Operations) are being revealed and would soon be facing the long arm of the law for having been in a tit for tat relationship with Bosasa.

Although we are not facing genocide, our struggles are intensifying as the wicked are continuously scheming against us. We need to be the Esthers of today and be courageous enough to save our world from the wicked Hamans of this world who are consumed by greed, fraud, corruption, money laundering and abuse of power. A life lived like that will be one of the most powerful forces on the earth because it allows for a momentum of courage and kindness which further elevates us into new heights since God transforms despair to hope and death to life. We just never know the impact that we have on each other since it is true that even the goal of the refiner’s fire is not to make gold or silver pure and that of the fuller’s soap is not to make a garment clean and white but to make us stand in solidarity with the poor, the widows, the orphans and the immigrants. We can also make a difference in other people’s lives as we have been commanded to go and make the paths of the marginalised straight.

Fortunately for me, I am a good listener. When I was advised not to be in such a rush to figure out everything after an unexpected departure with my previous employer but to embrace the unknown and let life surprise me, I listened and life has really surprised me. My unexpected departure prepared the way to the birth of my Consulting Company, my becoming a Preacher and a Published Author.

This reminded me of Evita Bezuidenhout. A barefoot meissie of humble Boer origins from Bethlehem, in Orange Free State who was married to the National Party Minister of Black Housing and Water Affairs in the cabinet of Hendricks Verwoerd, Dr J. J. de V. Bezuidenhout and power became her addiction. She did not fall with the fall of the National Party as she had often been used even by the former President Nelson Mandela (late) as his entertainment of choice at his legendary fundraising dinners. She really had embraced the democratic change just as I have embraced the unknown. We can all embrace a kind world. She had of late joined the ANC, with a tin of red paint and a small paintbrush; putting many heavyweights in the ANC on diet.

When trials abound, I was exactly in His will. In my second book, Protesting, I did mention that other books were in draft forms, this being one of them. I had also admitted to having been bitten by the writing bug and to still had not found a cure, actually I had not even looked for it and I do not intend looking for one as I do not need a cure since I am pleased with the writing bug incarnate in me thus this third book. I have discovered my path and I have taken it graciously and unequivocally. I have listened to the rhythm of my calling and have followed it as I have surrendered to the writing bug and loving it.

My first book Expectations was neutral while my second book Protesting was on the negative side of the scale thus this one is on the positive side so that I could be classified as a versatile author who can explore all directions. I really would not want to be boxed and classified as a one hat trickster thus I intend exploring all possible angles. Creativity had begun and individuality is flourishing. The world stands upon three things i.e. upon the law, upon worshiping and upon showing kindness, thus this book is on kindness. There is also no law against the fruits of the spirit, kindness being one of them (Gal 5:22-23).

When the former President Jacob Zuma got deep into racketeering, fraud and corruption others had followed suit. He eventually succumbed to pressure and resigned but his partners in crime did not follow suit; some have moved abroad while others are still in Parliament and/or outside Parliament. No matter how deep they had gone on a wrong road, they could still turn back and take the right road more so because there is more pleasure in giving than in taking. Luckily for us, a sizeable number of them were reshuffled out of the National Government by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The remaining culprits still owe us the best medicine.

They say that if you are helping someone and expecting something in return, you are doing business not kindness. When Solly Bux, then an Ixopo businessman, made a deal with the now Judicial Service Commission (JSC) Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo to provide groceries for his family while Zondo was then studying for his law qualification, he was not doing business because when Zondo returned to settle his debt after graduating, Bux refused to take the money and instead asked him to repay the kindness with good deeds. In 2017 Justice Zondo, Bux and their families established the Zondo and Bux Education Trust which assists historically disadvantaged pupils. Over and above this initiative Justice Zondo has taken further the message of repaying the kindness with good deeds by going back to the community of Ixopo after sourcing donations and had replaced pit toilets at one Ixopo school and also completed the erection of a hall which had been left incomplete since 2016 at the neighbouring Amazabeko High School.

Extend to each person no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thoughts of any reward. Your life will never be the same since what you give to others; you also give to yourself, indirectly. They had commissioned their dealings, commissions of inquiries had exposed them and their bank balances were proof thereof. It was high time they showed us kindness and expected nothing in return other than possible court cases and hefty jail terms since the commissions of inquiries had exposed the. You have to see it to be it, they had seen it thus it was high time they became it. It was nice when they moved millions of rands from one organ of state and/or private company to different beneficiaries some of which had been traced to belong to the one and the same bank account. It is always nice to be nice thus it was high time they became nice by returning the stolen money. At the writing of this book Bosasa was still milking the Department of Correctional