Because of the GLS in Zimbabwe | A Pastor is Liberated from the Grip of a Broken Relationship

My name is Bazil Bhasera, I am a pastor in Kadoma, a city in the midlands of Zimbabwe. In 2015 I had the privilege of attending the Global Leadership Summit here in my city. I have been a leadership coach for the past 14 years. So initially I figured going to a Leadership Summit was way up my alley.

But I received more than leadership encouragement.

I started to write a book a few years ago, but had lost steam and was letting go of my dream of becoming a published writer. But after my experience at the GLS, I finished the book I had started… and wrote a second one! I am currently working on a third manuscript.

The GLS was one of the strongest reasons for this forward motion in my life, and here is why…

At the Summit, they talked about how we all need to have a degree of “self-awareness.” We should investigate whether we are still “tethered” to things and events that took place in our past. I have had a rough relationship with my dad and it shows up in my own role as a father to my kids. I always think that I would have lived a better life and become a better person if I had a good supportive dad.

One of the speakers described the day his own father died, and a moment of comfort came through the gripping truth that God is a father to the fatherless.

Wait a minute! Here was a man who had sat in my place, wondering how life was going to turn out without a father. I held in my heart bitter hurts and anger and self-pity because my father had not been there emotionally. My response tied me to my past, whereas his response gave him more hope for the future.

I was tethered.

Brian Houston also resonated with me. As he spoke about his book Live, Love, Lead, he told of a difficult time in his life that involved his dad. I was amazed that a man so used by God could also struggle in his relationships. This pulled me out of my pity pool and into the reality that God was using this moment to help me from my self-made pity.

“Good Father” by Chris Tomlin,  makes it real.

I felt an overwhelming sense of being liberated as the grip on the past loosened finger by finger.

I had a good father all along, but I had chosen the long hard road of misery by not choosing to focus on what I had in Christ and instead I focused on what I had lost. I borrowed the term “tethered” and that’s what I titled my book.

That’s where it all started.

 I have since published a blog and written articles that led to being asked by Skynews Zimbabwe to be a columnist.

I was about to give up on writing.

I thought it was too big a dream to pursue, but the motivation I got from the Summit made me believe I could do something great for God and inspire others.