Much has been written this weekend about Zimbabwe's 31st Independence Anniversary - much of it bemoaning how little we have to celebrate.
That's the Zimbabwean way. Moan and wait.
It's easier that doing anything either constructive or destructive.
But my mind went back to 1982.
I remember sitting in my room at University, listening to a short-wave broadcast from ZBC.
The broadcast used the Crosby Stills Nash and Young "Teach Your Children Well" theme. It was a Zimbabwean Government propaganda broadcast, but it was up-beat! It didn't speak of how other people were to blame for our woes. It didn't try to ignore the problems faced. It spoke of a utopian Zimbabwe powered by free universal education.
But reality happened.
Universal education cannot be free.
Universal nothing can be free.
Or can it?
It's Holy Week. What better time to remember that the best ever Free Gift was given to the whole world.
God loved the whole world so much that He gave His only Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Sadly, not everyone will accept this Gift. But that doesn't diminish it.
Unlike universal free education, eternal life remains a current reality. Sadly, more people than necessary will not accept it. Sadly, the Good News is not universally known.
There is still a need to "Teach Your Children Well".
To teach them the Truth.
The Good News.
There is a hope.
There is a God.
