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Wednesday, 16 Rabi'ul Awal 1431 H/ 3 March 2010

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IT'S A MATTER OF CHOICE
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Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply, "If I were any better, I'd be twins!"

Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs, so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! No one can be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"

Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood. I always choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victom or I can choose to learn from it. I always choose to learn from it."

"But that's not always easy," I protested.

"Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood. It's your choice how you live your life."

Several years later, I heard that Jerry left the back door of his restaurant open one morning, and was robbed by three armed men. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?"

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared?" I asked.

Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room, and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action."

"Well there was a big nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if i was allergic to anything." 'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!'

Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead'."

Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy life or to hate it.

The only thing that is truly yours that no one can control or take from you is your attitude, so that if you take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.

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Chilean authorities have rushed thousands more troops to earthquake-ravaged towns across the country in a bid to contain mass looting and unrest triggered by Saturday's devastating earthquake.

A landslide has struck eastern Uganda following heavy rains, killing at least 80 people and leaving hundreds missing, officials have said.

Umara Yar'Adua, the Nigerian president, has been back in Nigeria for seven days after spending more than three months receiving medical treatment at a Saudi Arabian hospital.

President Jacob Zuma says that it was not the policy of the ruling ANC to nationalise the mining sector, as had been demanded by the head of the ANC Youth League.

The DA says that the city of Johannesburg has misused and abused nearly 15 percent of the budget through neglect and incompetetence.

Mini Calzone

Dough:
3 cups flour
½ tsp salt
1/3 cup oil
2 ½ Tbsp sugar
2 ½ tsp yeast
30g butter
1 egg

Filling of your choice
Jalapeno sauce
Garlic sauce
Grated cheese

Combine ingredients to form dough. Allow dough to rise, knead well and allow to rise again. Divide dough into +- 20 small balls. Roll out balls on one ½ spread jalapeno and garlic sauces, top with filling and sprinkle cheese over. Fold over to close and allow to rise. Bake at 180C for about 15 minutes.

"'n Afrikaanse Moslem Webtuiste en 'n Blog gerig op die Afrikaanssprekende Christen deur S'aad Bekker:

"Miskien het jy dit al raakgesien of dalk wonder jy waar kom ek aan die storie dat die Suid Afrikaanse Christen-Wêreld besig is om in duie te stort en die Christene haweloos en Kerkloos te laat... Wel, dalk is ek meer bewus daarvan omdat ek uit daardie wêreld kom, toe ek in 2007 'n Moslem geword het. As Moslems nie doelbewus gaan uitreik na die Christene om ons, en hulle uitnooi om Moslems te word en by ons aan te sluit nie, gaan hulle, insha'Allah, baie seer kry en waarskynlik "godloos" opeindig in die waan dat alles wel is terwyl ons as Moslems weet daar kom wel 'n Oordeelsdag... of wat dink jy?

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