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Heavenly Bound Magazine October Issue 1 H B M Heavenly Bound Magazine October Issue 1 Heavenly Bound Magazine October Issue 2 jTo: Heavenly Bound Magazine would like to Invite you to the “Take Of Your Mask” Event happening today. Date: Today Time: Right Now Venue: Where ever you are now RSVP: with YOURSELF We hope you can join us for this event God Bless and hope you enjoy this Month’s HBM Love Kittens 3rd October 2015 P.s Please note that this is a real event happening today and we want you to join us. No fee required, we just want you to be true to yourself. Heavenly Bound Magazine October Issue 3 The Mask By Katleho Mthembu. I think I have watch the Mask many, masks. Because what we have to many times and towards the end remember is that when we wear a when Jim Carrey takes of his mask mask we pretend to being something and is asked by his friend if he sure that we are not. We put on masks because we want to look and feel different. We are so tired from having to pretend to being someone else that we become too tired to be our awesome, flawsome selves. Another thing about the Stanley Epicus (The Mask, Jim Carrey) is that whenever he wore that mask boy oh boy did he think he was invincible. Like the guy was being shot at but he was uhm how can I say this… uhm pulling a Neo (The Matrix). Yes it was funny and all (trust me it was) “Jim Carrey as The Mask” but if we bring it to real life we also that he wants to throw away that one think we are invincible whenever we thing that brought him happiness, I wear that mask. Like nothing can just think it brought him a whole lot of penetrate us no matter what anyone grief more than happiness. Yes he is says or does to me, while I have this seen as a hero at the end of the day mask on, no can do anything to me. but the guy did get arrested because What we don’t realise is that we are as the Mask he robbed a bank and not invincible, we do get shot at and went to the Coco bar one of the it hurts to the point where you just hottest clubs at that present moment. want to lock yourself in your room Yes I am getting to the point I want to and just let it out like cry. I don’t make so please just be patient with mean like “oh I’m watching a very me. So where was I….ah yes Jim sad movie” type of crying. No I mean throwing away his mask. Oh by the running nose, blood shot eyes, way he also gets the girl. chocking type of crying. And there is nothing wrong with that in actual fact Now every time he took off the mask crying is good for one. It’s like you he would feel tired and disorientated are just being vulnerable and that is which is something that happens to not such a bad thing. us after we have taken off our Heavenly Bound Magazine October Issue 4 What I have realised is that people eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee are afraid to be vulnerable. And I do eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery boring. I mean get why that is the case. People can I see life as a fruit salad. We are all use that against you and some of us the different kinds of fruits in the were raised being told that being salad and God all Mighty is the vulnerable is a weakness, which is yogurt that makes it extra ordinary. not. Are you not human? If you are Now if we were all apples…I think not than I welcome you to planet doctors would run out of business Earth where humans and animals and we would all be walking around roam. The trick to vulnerability is looking like we are like part of some knowing who to be vulnerable with. It school. Please note I was never a can be someone you can trust like fan of school uniform. Never was, your teacher or even your family. never will be. The best person I can be vulnerable Now my question from me to you is with is God because He is there all that why don’t you go into the world the time and He wants to listen to as yourself? Let’s just take a moment you and I. to think about it… After a few nights of wearing the … mask and taking revenge on those that did him wrong, Stanley decides I mean what’s the worst that could to go see a Mask specialist. Yes happen? Yes they might laugh at you there are people who just decided and make fun of you but what you they want to specialise in the don’t know is that they are actually different types of masks from around applauding you for doing something the world. Hmmm…sounds like a they can’t. Hey that’s what I think. career. Anyway he tries to explain what happens when he puts on the Oscar Wilde once said and I quote mask and he even dares to put on “Man is least himself when he talks the mask in front of the guy only to in his own person. Give him a mask, turn into a fool. By the way the guy and he will tell you the truth.” wrote a book called “the different Hmmm…that is like saying wearing a types of masks people wear.” The masks brings out a person’s true reason why Stanley went to see this self. In that case why do you need a specialist is because he had a date mask to do so? Why not take off that with the lovely woman he has fallen mask and just be bold and say or do in love with. Well actually the woman what you would do while wearing a has a date with the mask and not mask? Stanley. So the specialist tells him to What I will say to you is that I’d go as himself AND as the Mask. So rather not be liked while being my he had to be two people but in one own self than being LOVED while body. I mean why not go as yourself? being someone else. I am me and Why not be yourself? I mean if we that all you are getting. Crazy and were all the same person life would all. be very very very very very veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Heavenly Bound Magazine October Issue 5 Heavenly Bound Magazine October Issue 6 The beauty of being yourself irrespective of the environment Songezo Gwanya sheds some of the imperative tips of being you. I remember this young beautiful be successful. This is not a bad thing lady telling me about her new but once one forgets him-or-herself relationship, she described the and imitates what the other person is boyfriend as a gentleman… no, doing it’s totally wrong. actually the man of her dreams. I Psalms 139:14 reads, “I praise listened to her attentively while in you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully the back of my mind I thought of the made; (a) marvellous are your woks, kind of a mask this boyfriend might and my soul knows very well.” Every be wearing. It was not long after individual is fearfully and wonderfully that, that she came back to me made, why then should we be asking what she is supposed to do copycats of other people’s lives? The because the “gentleman” was answer might be easy, it’s because cheating. you do not know who you are and what you stand for. Have you found yourself in such a situation? Maybe not exactly the same scenario but you’ve been lied to by a “good person” or “gentleman” or whomever. The so called “all loving” or “caring people” who hurt and destroy other people’s lives, they come with all kinds of impressive personalities to get people where they want them to be. We all have masks on Each and every one individual is created for a specific purpose in life. And we all have varying talents to one other but at the end of the day they all work together to the glory of God and good for the people but due to the influence and other contributing factors from the society we live in, an individual deviates from his/her talents to someone else’s talents. During this period a person loses him-or-herself and puts on someone’s life. We are all influenced either positively or negatively; it all depends on our reaction to the influence. One, in most cases, imitates someone they admire or consider to Heavenly Bound Magazine October Issue 7 Why should one put on a mask? do, because this individual is perfect. Is it for closure? Many people He has not done any mistake in life nor are ignored out there by their families, will He ever; He is the Christ the Son friends and the community itself. The of the living God. only way to connect is to put on a He gave Himself up to be spat mask that will blend in nicely with the on, beaten and mocked in all ways that environment and certain people they all people may be saved and follow want to please at that particular time.
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