HEAVEN ON EARTH - A MARKETING PROJECT
We are apt to talk about ‘Heaven on Earth’ when we visit a place we truly love, and a place that we find difficult to leave. It could be when we go on holiday to a special area, or we visit family or friends that live in a beautiful part of the world. We often wish that we could stay a little longer. It may be due to the beauty we see, the tranquillity that we find, or the pleasures and camaraderie that we experience in such a place. We invariably talk about coming to that place again.
But what if one could find a place like that and stay forever.
I know of such a place, where our future destiny can be all of the above. We call that place Heaven.
But many of us just only consider that place to be somewhere high above us, and in an unknown place situated in an area that is difficult for us to visualise. It is especially difficult for those who cannot perceive any association to any type of spiritual world. I am referring to those who are grounded only on earthly things, without any knowledge of the spiritual environment that surrounds us.
Then there are those who deliberately shy away from these thoughts.
For over 40 years, I have been in the marketing game, running my own business, with my wife as my trusted partner. We have travelled far and wide over much of South Africa, marketing and distributing products that have been in demand by many, but also, supplying to many others who were unaware of these lines. I have always marketed products that are needed by people across the board and not only by a select few. So we had to gain their trust and sometimes offer proof in what we were talking about.
In marketing there are many ‘Ups and Downs’ and some elements of this journey were difficult to overcome, with many obstacles in the way. Competition is one of the major issues, especially when disinformation takes on a significant role. A good marketer must be 100% aligned with their product.
Failure was never about the product. It was only about the ‘will’ of the buyer, based upon their own preferences, but often deliberately mislead by those around them.
25 years ago, I took a giant step forward in my Spiritual journey, which I have documented in some detail. I know that there are many others in this world that have gone through a similar experience, but maybe never moved forward. But I never considered that I would take on a new role to market my Spiritual Belief to others, especially taking into account my limited amount of knowledge. I was very much the average ‘Joe’ who just sat on the fence, hesitant to move forward, and quite willing to jump back onto ‘safe’ ground. We were members of a wonderful Fellowship in Wilderness, S Cape, but business took us out the area, on a regular basis. We eventually relocated, 10 years later, to Langebaan on the Cape West Coast, joined a regular Church, but with very irregular attendances, again mainly due to business commitments.
Even so, I did start asking myself many questions and realised that I had no constructive answers. In 2020, during the covid lockdown I started an in-depth research of Scriptures, to gain more knowledge, I started recording my findings in a number of articles, just for my own sake. But there was still something missing. It was the church fellowship that we had enjoyed so much in our Southern Cape days. I had a spiritual awakening, leading us to the Langebaan Christian Fellowship on Sunday 25th December 2022.
That led to my next giant step forward. In October 2023, I registered the ‘Wake Up South Africa’ website, and started the preparation of my articles for that website to be made available to all at a future date, when enough articles had been published. That time has come, and the site is now up and running.
It has been an exciting road, gaining a tremendous amount of knowledge for me personally, and looking forward to spreading this far and wide.
Link to: Introduction. (………)
03/06/2025