A QUESTION OF TIME

HEAL A FRACTURED WORLD COLUMN

                           BY CHIBU NDUBUISI  09/01/2017

                                A QUESTION OF TIME

Peace be to you.

This is one of the favourite quote of my aunt.

She uses it to explain her experiences of life.

She quotes the biblical passage of " a time for everything"

and explains it with the slavery experience of the people of Israel,

until a day and a time they were librated from the Egyptians their oppressors which

they saw no more. A Question of Time Heals and liberates.

Nelson Mandela in his book"Long Walk to Freedom", explains that 'time is longer than rope.

He never gave in to the temptations of momentary betrayals, by explaining to his oppressors that "prisoners do not go in to contract but free men do".

He took the long walk believing that his troubles is just for "A Question of Time".

Mandela eventually  triumphed in his struggles against the Apartheid regime of the day.

He healed a fractured South Africa with reconciliation and not revenge. When that Question of Time arrives, it facilitates and helps you reconcile the past and future.

The answer is to know how to be responsible when freedom beckons in a Question of time. 

A philosopher posited "that man was born free but everywhere he is in chains'. What is that physical, psychological or system chains that is holding us back in slavery? The legendary Bob Marley sang that  we have to 'Emancipate ourselves from mental slavery non but ourselves can free our minds'.

Are you ready to heal when your question of time arrives? When that question is answered, it will help you unburden the physical,psychological and system barriers fracturing the world.

Peace be with you

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