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| Written By Ace Moloi |
One of the lessons I'm learning in my current youth is that when I'm rushing to an urgent meeting and the taxi is nearly filled, I always feel like yelling when the driver stops to wait for one person who's emerging from some distant street, far away from the stop. Why is he wasting everyone's time, my precious time, just to collect one person's fare? Why the greed? Okay, how about we rather pay the vacant seat off so that we can get to town faster?
But when I'm late for an appointment and a taxi not only stops for me but reverses to meet me halfway into my street, it comes as a much needed relief; a divine intervention of sorts. I do notice the irritation on ready-made passengers' faces who think the trip was going perfectly fine without me. When I greet them, they shoot me down with a cold face, as if to say, "Just sit down, tshwene ke wena. How much more of our perfect time do you want to waste?"
Operationally, God's favour reminds me of taxi trips.
When you're already in the taxi, it can be annoying when the driver scouts passengers. You feel like the driver should just focus on the road and forget about prospects. He'll still find a person to fill it up down the road; someone ready to climb on the taxi; someone whole and complete.
But God's favour often annoys whosoever thinks of themselves as more deserving than others. Nnete ke hore, the only remaining seat in the taxi is not just a seat. It is someone's destiny. Someone's encounter. You think it's urgent that you arrive home and close your windows? Try being in this approaching passenger's shoes and you'll feel the real heat of urgency.
You've been born again for years. It's now a tradition for you. But God cares about the person who's waving at him to stop the taxi of His favour. Not only will He stop the car, He will also reverse to fetch the soul crying out for His mercy. He will leave these 99 to bring the 1 on board, regardless of how loud you complain about the person's pace.
Yesterday it was you He patiently waited for. Now that you're on board He should ignore everyone else and just take you home? Don't be rude today when someone else needs a chance. You too were favoured. You didn't do anything amazing to be in the taxi earlier than others. In fact, if anyone must get off, it's you. You clearly don't have much baggage with you. You can afford alternative transport, I suppose. You have options, don't you? Hence the loud mouth?
It's not about you. It's about this person carrying heavy bags, battered by the storms of life. How will they run? Do you even know how deep in the street they live? Do you know how much distance they've so far covered to be here? Do you know how many taxi drivers gave up on them because of how much of an inconvenience they would be to whining, judgemental, religious passengers aboard?
Modimo ke sepalangwang sa setjhaba. God's favour is a public transport.
By Ace Moloi
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Follow her on Social Media because personal transformation doesn’t just happen. It takes daily wisdom, tips and a support system.
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