So here I am,
Very confused, but I now have a mission…
On Sunday the 25th of September, I woke up bright and early, before the Sunbirds, who wake me up every morning with their beautiful chittering outside my bedroom windows. There are a few pairs living in their nests in the mango trees. Such a pleasurable way to wake up.
Now I wake up, and I have been given a mission. I am to start giving. With the focus on providing water to people in need. Mainly water, and then any other need that they are desperate for, items that will help them in a beneficial way.
I lay there, wondering what the heck this all this is about, I then ask, HOW?
A voice then enters my head and very plainly says, “You know how to do it”
I do know how to do it, I have been involved in pumps and irrigation for the last twenty-five years of my life, I do know how to do it. I have sold thousands of pumps to people in need of water, and I have solved their water woes for such a long time now. I was very passionate about it when I was younger, I loved listening to people and their struggles with water, then I would sell them a solution. I am very successful in this line of work and have thousands of happy customers who have phoned back and thanked me. So many of these people have followed me as I have moved from one company to the next, because I listened, and then helped them.
So now that I have been told that I know how to do it, I am happy the good Lord acknowledges my skills, so I then ask again, “How do I give water to people, where do I get the money for this, where do I get the resources for this?”
The voice then says very plainly “You will be shown the way, do not fear”.
Hmmmmmm, what do I know about that. Absolutely nothing. Where do I start, how do I start, what do I need, do I have to leave my job, what do I survive on, a hundred fear-based questions fill my mind for the next hour, totally mind blown. What a way to start the day, a new path has been given to me, and I don’t know how to accept it, because I don’t know how to.
So, I spent lots of time on Sunday musing over this, and I have accepted my new mission, I still do not know how to, so I decided to wing it. During the day I realised that I now need to start a foundation, and I will need a name for it.
HOW GREAT THOU ART Foundation is what it will be called, and I am happy with that. Simply put, if I am to help a person or community with a water supply, then it will be from the grace of the LORD and the Lord will be thanked for the help given to each of these beneficiaries of his giving. I will be the conduit of his GRACE.
This realisation brought me comfort in my newly acquired mission of life, the good LORD is the boss, and I will follow his will.
So now I need to start a foundation, I need equipment, I need money, I don’t even own a vehicle anymore (I had to sell it to survive the covid scamdemic when I was retrenched, and I needed to pay rent and buy food). I am in no financial comfort, my salary is half what I was on at my previous position, so I have to decide monthly, food or bills. It really is that bad. So how do I buy pumps and equipment to help someone in need, these are the many thoughts constantly fogging up my head right now.
I don’t want my struggles to hold me back, I am excited to get going…
Yesterday, which was Monday, an oldish lady phoned the office, says her house pump has stopped working, and she has no water inside her house, can we help. I said yes, and she then asked what a new pump would cost her, so I told her that with the labour would cost about five thousand Rand ($300), I could hear her panic, and she tells me that is almost three months of her pension that she needs to survive on. She cannot afford to have water in her house, and I then realised that this is where I need to be able to help people. Sadly, I could not, and the company where I work does not donate.
I deal a lot with the local communities, and I do a lot of turnkey projects providing water to them. It would be hiring a geologist to source groundwater, hiring a driller to bore for water, and then the company where I work would supply and install the pumps and equipment, this costs about two hundred and fifty thousand rand to complete ($15000). There are so many communities in my area alone that carry water for two kilometres on their heads from streams back to their homes. I would like to help them. There is also the need for food, helping with their vegetable garden watering schemes. All of this is where I need to help now.
So, this is my mission…
All I know right now, is that it is called HOW GREAT THOU ART Foundation, I suppose it is a start.
Wayne, it is rare to hear such a vibrant realization of god’s will. You ARE a conduit (a potential that we all have) and trusting your process while keeping faith in higher power is your only responsibility now.
Every beautiful and purifying expression of man is birthed in moments exactly like the one you’ve had. I feel that newfound power to serve the world surging through you.
Every cell in your body will have to acclimate to your soulful self--the most sensitive conduit to god’s will. It will be a challenge, but “no pain no gain” as they say..
I wish you the best in your journey, for the sake of so many who need you to become that conduit, and to show them that they too can become that conduit.
When enough people allow love and service to flow through them, when every part of them finds alignment as you yourself are in the process of, then we will see a splendid earth that gives everyone a chance to experience the grace of love and light.
How Great Thou Art would be a great publication on substack. You can keep people along for the ride as you experience this journey to provide water to those in need. I want to read how you go from from your faith in your mission to the unbelievable fruition of your service on earth.