This week was just one of those weeks where I felt that everything in my life was falling to pieces. My husband was sick with some kind of virus, my son demanded all my attention and I just couldn’t get my golf shots perfect. Nothing was going my way.This morning I decided to watch a dvd while my son was sleeping to try and relax and just gain focus again on life and the things that I really wanted. Little did I know that this was life’s way to bring me back into reality and make me realize that I don’t have the faith that I thought I had.

I watched a South African produced movie by Frans Cronje called “Faith like potatoes”. The story is based on a real life drama about a Zambian farmer that gives up his life in Zambia to try and make a new start in South Africa with his wife and children. The farmer, Angus, was a very short tempered gentlemen that only relied upon himself to get things done. His life changed when they got an invitation to join the local Methodist Church for a service one Sunday. Angus wasn’t very keen to attend the service but did go.

That Sunday a man testified how faith changed his life, and this was also a life changing experience for Angus. He decided to give his life to God and things started to change immediately in his life. He started to preach to people about what God did for him, and despite obsticles in his way he carried on, because where one door closed for him another one opened.

Angus also experienced hardship when his brother’s son was killed in a tractor accident. Angus prayed that the little boy must live, but he did not. Angus couldn’t cope with this situation until he received a phone call from brother one night who told him that his son had come to him in a vision and that when asked if he would like to come back to earth, the little boy replied “no daddy I will wait for you here”.

The farmers were also experiencing great droughts at that time and Angus decided to plant potatoes. Patatoes need a lot of water. The local minister and his friends discouraged him to do so, but he stuck to it and planted his potatoes. One day Angus and the minister were in the potatoe fields and his crop look anything but promising, but Angus believed that through the trust he had in God that he had done the right thing.

When it became harvest time his crop yielded the best patatoes ever.

Angus trusted God completely and the crops that were yielded by trusting God were bigger and better than what he could ever have asked for.

I realise today that we only believe when we see, but if we are asked to believe without seeing we start to doubt .

Real trust in God is to keep Faith even when things are not looking very promising because although we cannot see it on the outside right away, God is very busy working from the inside.

All we have to do is keep faith.

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