PENSIONER LOST HER FUNERAL MONEY

Pensioners need protection because some are too old to defend themselves. Life is like a journey full of loads. If you can carry this load throughout your lifetime with discipline, endurance, sacrifice, and truthfulness, you can succeed in life. If one's life goes the opposite way, then things might never be better for the one.  Most people, while living, think of the death ahead of them and save money towards that to have a befitting burial after death. A pensioner living in England, who has carefully saved £1000 to pay for the funerals of her and her 85-year-old disabled husband, accidentally lost the money, leaving her unable to sleep with high blood pressure.  According to her, she left her home at the Watford end of Wimborne, around 11.30 am, on Monday, 12 January 2009, and walked to town with the money at the bottom of her shopping bag. However, when she got to the Nationwide Building Society to pay the money into her account, she discovered that the money had gone missing.  The sixty-nine-year-old woman who wants to remain anonymous said, "I was absolutely gutted. My husband had been saving the money for some time so that we could pay for our funerals in time," She said. She has no clue about the disappearance of the money. "I have been hoping that someone would find it and hand it over to the police, but no one has. We have had to work hard for every penny we have, so to lose it this way was heartbreaking," she said. I wonder why she was expecting a miracle to get her money back in a country like England, where youths have no regard for the elders. They rob, beat up, and steal from the old, without any second thought that one day they will be old as well, and the same thing could happen to them.  Whatever the case, old woman, don't be distraught; give thanks to God that you are still alive.

WHY DO PEOPLE BLAME GOD FOR TODAY'S VIOLENCE?

There are many churches throughout Europe, but they are empty every Sunday.


Christianity found its way to Africa through the white missionaries who went to the continent years ago, but it is like Africans have embraced the Christian faith than the whites themselves. 

It is very common to see Africans worshipping God in churches on Sundays, while on the same Sunday, you see Whites at the drinking pubs enjoying glasses of wine and beer. 

In Britain, a few churches had been converted to drinking pubs, yet the government is fighting hard against alcoholism, teenage pregnancy, hooliganism, and crime without success.

Many simply have no time at all to think of God, let alone to attend church service on Sundays to worship the creator. Once I visited a church in a small town in Rome-Italy called "Sacrofano." 

The beautifully designed ancient church attracted me into it with the desire to fellowship with them that Sunday.

 

I was shocked to see that the pastor was preaching to only two people in this big church. I joined them, and the number increased to three. 

In Antwerp, Belgium, most of the time I see people at the church when someone has died. It is like the church was built to pay last respect to only the dead, not the living.

The world today is full of turmoil, war, tribal conflicts, racism, discrimination, etc. All these problems are caused by man. Man decides to cause pain, havoc, and unrest to people and our societies, but not God.

 

Why then do people ignorantly ask, if there is God, why must all these problems occur? People drink and lose their minds to kill, stab, and beat their wives and children, yet many prefer to drink rather than read the Holy Bible, a book that heals our spiritual and physical problems.

Hebrews chapter 12:26-27, predicts that "Everything that can be shaken will be shaken.....so that only those things that can not be shaken will remain." This means that our jobs, retirement, pensions, children, health, etc, can be shaken at times. 

At the same time, the Bible says, "Everything shall pass, but the word of God shall be there forever." This is an important message to remind men to find solace in God by reading the Holy Bible. 

Alcohol, crime, and all the evil things men commit will lead us to a place we have never dreamt of, that is, going to hell and jail.

JOHN LENNON IMAGINED AFRICA'S POLITICAL CRISIS

The great John Lennon, ex-member of the 'Beatles'


John Lennon once said he was more famous than Jesus Christ. Many faithful Christians around the world weren’t happy over that defamatory statement he made. However, I’m not writing this article to condemn Mr. Lennon but to congratulate him on his concern over the political crisis in Africa during his period.


Africa has been a neglected continent for a very long time, even though most of the wealth in Europe was taken from that continent. In the sixties, the members of the Beatles were presented with MBE awards, Nigerian-Biafran Gowon haunts did, and John Lennon returned his award to the Queen in protest against UK foreign policy.

He wrote, “Your Majesty, I’m returning my MBE as a protest against Britain’s involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against Cold Turkey slipping down the charts” with love, John Lennon. 

The Nigerian-Biafran war in the sixties between Yakubu Gowon and Ojukwu claimed thousands of lives. It was a catastrophe, a human disaster, and a nightmare that still haunts Nigerians.

It’s astonishing that while the world does not care about the turmoil in Africa, just as the racist Margaret Thatcher does not care about the Apartheid, segregation, and the discrimination going on in South Africa ca that time, a common musician like John Lennon cares much about the carnage going on in Africa.

To me, John Lennon wasn’t only a great musician. But a special statesman, an envoy interested in bringing peace to Africa. At the same time, he was bringing the problems of Africa to the awareness of the selfish leaders who do not care about the continent’s political crisis, but the Beatles were only interested in the looting of the continent's rich mineral resources.

Fans of the Beatles want the rejected award that has been in storage at Saint James’ Palace, since 1969, to be placed at the museum, but a spokesman for the Chancery Department of the Royal said that it’s only John Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, could decide if it has to go on display or to the museum.