I remember it well; I can visualize it clearly . But back then, I thought it was just a game that children played. Little did I know that it carried important life lessons, to both the Christian and non-Christian. There was this game that we used to play while herding cattle and goats down in Njanja, Zimbabwe . I was about nine years old then and had two friends, both roughly my age. We would agree to play a game to entertain ourselves, because watching cattle and goats grazing was to us never an attractive undertaking. Our options included swimming in pools on the Mutorahuku stream , playing soccer, bull fighting and high jump . We often preferred high jump. We would cut three long sticks and find ourselves a sandy place, which normally was close to the Mutorahuku stream that cut through our village. We chose sandy places to protect ourselves from injury, for after jumping, one would need a soft landing, so to say. We would stick two sticks into the sand, about...
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