SNEAKY VENDING IN HOSPITALS: A REAL THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH

Would you, or anyone, in their right mind and enjoying good health want to get sick at the hospital or clinic because of buying food or something from someone who sneaked them into the ward or medical facility grounds? Well, this is a subtle threat to public health that I have witnessed which even some or most workers at health facilities are letting to take root  or leaving unchecked. Vendors go as far as into the wards, carrying and conducting their business of selling airtime, foodstuffs, toiletries, sanitary ware and the like in buskets, backpacks and handbags.

MAINTENANCE-FREE WIFE!

Although it is entirely imaginary, I honestly got inspiration for this piece upon pondering hard on how simply a wife can live life without being undaunted, to her old age!

A THOUSAND WORDS, A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS!

(c) M-L

The invasion or the seeker's shelter
The peculiar spot, the temporal fit
This attraction, who can imagine?

THE TENSION WE HAVE

There is tension that sometimes seems, to me, to be overwhelmingly real with respect to prayer and when we do not get what we ask for. By tension, I mean 'a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense.'  We wonder and we become uneasy. No wonder the apostle Paul more often than not started his letters with 'Grace and peace to you... '. We need peace and God knows we do! Upon giving a caution and recommending constant prayer, Paul the apostle in the seventh verse of his epistle to the Philippians categorically adds ‘And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.’  As God's sons and daughters it is natural for us to always expect to receive what we ask for (Math 7:7-11; John 16:23-27). That’s what Jesus tells us in the two verses.  We sincerely believe and we ask what we need in faith (James 1:6). But our faith and will is subservient to and governed by God’s Sovereignty and Will.

THE NONSENSE OF CHANGING CHRONOLOGICAL AGE

The desperation of getting what they want is as shocking and appalling as it is evidently folly in some people. People have, and they can keep, their different reasons that compel them to want to change their or someone else’s chronological age. The pressures they have which they even exert on others might be real, but is that necessary? What is amazing in and for some is the sheer ignorance that it is actually a crime! If you ask me to quote you a Statute off the cuff I will not because my interest and goal is to bring the issue to the glaring arena of community awareness and refrain. The Penal Code Cap 87 of the Laws of Zambia, for example, forbids giving false information or obtaining anything by false pretenses. Even God’s Law, from which Statute is derived, forbids it. I thought this should be a community concern which a Community Radio station could facilitate discussion of, with participants from different walks of life.

BEWARE OF THESE THREE (3) THINGS AS YOU BEGIN 2019

What would you say, how would you feel, and what would you do, about not being able to spend Christmas and the beginning of a New Year with your dear family and/or friend(s)? I know most certainly I would get zillion varied answers to these questions. Well for the first time after thirteen years, my wife reminded me early this morning, the 1^st of January 2019 that we are spending this day apart from each other. It is our first-time vapid experience of the day we have otherwise advertently enjoyed together! Circumstances have robbed us of a lot, and I assure you it is neither by deliberate nor imprudent choice. It would not be a fallacy to guess, or better still judiciously say that you have already responded to some or all of that. 

Familiarly, in my response to my wife’s exposure of the present reality, it was literally like being wakened up to acknowledge the staring, lonely, and incising fact.