Lapho uMolly etshela umyeni wakhe, “Kungenzekani uma siqala isonto noma inhlangano ku-inthanethi? Yilapho okuhlala khona intsha engochwepheshe, phela,” wayesho njengehlaya. Umbhangqwana wawusanda kuthuthela eDenver, kwathi lapho ukuvalwa kwe-Covid kuqala, babheka umbono wabo ngamehlo amasha. Akekho noyedwa kubo owayeke waba nayo Instagram kodwa babazi ukuthi uNkulunkulu wayebeke ochwepheshe abasebasha ezinhliziyweni zabo, futhi indlela engcono kakhulu yokuxhumana nentsha kwakuku-inthanethi.
Ngemva “kokushintsha okukhulu kwempilo” kamuva ekuphileni lapho sebemazi uKristu, umbhangqwana
wasebenza enkonzweni yokwenza abafundi ekhempasini yasekolishi iminyaka engu-12. Abafundi “babephuma ekolishi futhi baye edolobheni,” kukhumbula uMolly, “futhi ezikhathini eziningi sasingazi ukuthi yini ebaphathele . . . Abaningi babo babengamane nje bangene emasontweni baphishekele lokho, kodwa sabona ukuthi kusenesithakazelo esingokomoya.” Ngakho-ke, eminyakeni emine edlule, baqasha umuntu ukuthi aqale Akhawunti ye-Instagram ukuthumela imininingwane efanele yochwepheshe abasebasha, ebizwa ngokuthi The Brook.
Kule ndaba, abantu abasha bangathola “Ngimusha” ifomu. Abantu abaningi bagcwalise amafomu okwenza uMolly abephendula abashayela ucingo ngevidiyo usuku lonke, ekhuluma “nochwepheshe abasebasha abathanda ukufunda mayelana nokuxhumana nomphakathi, ubudlelwano, futhi ekugcineni noNkulunkulu.” Njengoba impendulo ikhula, lo mbhangqwana waqaphela ukuthi amathuluzi owawafunda endabeni yawo yokwenza abafundi “ayenganele.” “Lokho iNkosi eyayikwenza kwakukukhulu kunalokho esasikujwayele ngaphambili,” kuchaza uMolly, “ngokungagcini nje ngokuphindaphinda abafundi ngabanye kodwa. amasonto alula, amaqembu abantu.”
Ngesikhathi kwethulwa inkonzo yokusafufusa Zume, “kwavula amehlo [abo].” Nanka amathuluzi ababewadinga ukuze bahambisane nomsebenzi uNkulunkulu ayewenza, amathuluzi ayengasebenza kokubili ku-inthanethi futhi mathupha, indlela ehlangene eyayizoqinisa umthelela wabo njengentambo ephothiwe ndawonye ibe yintambo. Ngemva kokufunda ukuqeqeshwa kwe-Zúme, abaholi be-The Brook abangu-40 baphenduka baphinda ukuqeqeshwa okufanayo amasonto ayishumi. “Lokho kwakufana noshintsho enkonzweni yethu, lapho ngempela saqala ukubona ukuphindaphinda kwenzeka ngokushesha okukhulu,” kusho uMolly. “Kulo nyaka odlule, sibone ukwanda okukhulu futhi sabona amasonto avamile enza kabusha ngokushesha ngenxa yokuqeqeshwa okwaqala cishe unyaka odlule.”
Manje, UMfula iyaqhubeka nokuxhuma abaphendulayo ukuze bakhe amaqembu esonto alula,
ukuletha ukuxhumana kanye nomphakathi kaNkulunkulu kubantu abasha abanesizungu kwelinye lamadolobha aseMelika adlula kakhulu. “Uma kunendawo ethile noma endaweni ethile onomuzwa wokuthi uNkulunkulu ukubizile,” kukhuthaza uMolly, “yithathe. Phuma ekukholweni. Ngesikhathi ngiqala i-The Brook, ngangingazi lutho ngezinkundla zokuxhumana . . . kodwa ngicabanga ukuthi lapho uNkulunkulu ebeka umbono enhliziyweni yakho, Uyokuhlomisa.”
