• Pastor Gerrit Mes of the AFM Pentecostal Fellowship writes:
The biggest lesson I have learnt from the last 12 months of Covid is this – you cannot bank on no surprises.
Curveballs don’t only apply to cricket. No one could have predicted or even imagined the impact Covid would have on all of us.
Disrupting every area of our lives. Financially and socially, everything changed. The world was brought to a standstill.
Plus, get used to chaos and confusion. Scientists don’t agree on the source of or the solution to Covid. The media has spread fear. The way statistics were presented was enough to make our response worse than the pandemic.
The lesson I learnt was, turn off the media at times. It is important to know what is going on, but too much exposure could kill you. In case you think I have an axe to grind with the media, I got this advice from CNN.
Finally, it made me focus on God a bit more. We need him to get through this storm. Even the president of our country at the end of each ‘family meeting’ said, “God bless South Africa”.
After 12 months of Covid, we need to look back and remember all the people who helped us get through this. Frontline workers, family, friends and institutions that supported us.
Let us not forget our farmers, petrol attendants and the army of people working at our supermarkets. Some who have died in the line of duty.
• Contact Pastor Mes on 087 802 5752.
