Toe pastoor Piet Smit van Malmesbury vroeg op 23 Augustus sterf, was dorpenaars kollektief geskok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het dan vroegoggend nog die pastoor se geestelike WhatsApp gekry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy het altyd so mooi vir my gebid; my so mooi deur moeilike tye ondersteun,\u201d was reaksies op sosiale media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy stem is nou stil, maar hy word allerwe\u00eb onthou vir sy veelsydigheid en sy vermo\u00eb om 100 dinge binne een dag te vermag. Hy word onthou as toegewyde geestelike leier, vir sy kitaarspel en sang. Hy het verskeie geestelike CD\u2019s gemaak. Dit en sy preke is steeds op YouTube beskikbaar. Hy was lief vir fotografie \u2013 veral vo\u00ebls \u2013 en het die Facebookblad \u201cVo\u00ebls van die Wes- en Suid-Kaap\u201d geskep. Verder was sy passie vir suiwer Afrikaans en die Swartland-atletiekklub aansteeklik. Hy het verskeie termyne op die klub se bestuur gedien \u2013 ook as voorsitter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smit se lidmate by die AGS Corpus Christi-gemeente, waar hy 15 jaar lank pastoor was, asook lidmate van die huisgemeente, wat hy n\u00e1 sy aftrede in 2019 gevorm het, mis sy ywer vir die Here. Hulle mis sy aanlyn preke, sy \u2018invalgedagtes\u2019 (vroegoggende se geestelike WhatsApp-boodskappe) wat hy daagliks na kontakte oor die land heen en Namibi\u00eb gestuur het, sy Bybel-vasvrae, bid-aande en bergklim-uitstappies na die Riebeekberggrot, wat hy gereeld gere\u00ebl het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Terwyl omgeeruikers nog sy huis vol staan, vertel sy vrou, Susan, \u201cPiet is 69 jaar gelede as jongste van vyf kinders op die familieplaas Coenradenberg buite Hopefield gebore en geto\u00eb. Ons eerste \u2018date\u2019 was om saam kerk toe te gaan in die tyd toe hy n\u00e1 matriek in Malmesbury by Bokomo kom werk het. N\u00e1 sy weermagjare het hy by OKP (die destydse Onderwyskollege Paarl) vir houtwerkonderwyser geleer. Ons huis staan vol meubels wat hy gemaak het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns is in 1978 getroud. Sy eerste pos was op Calvinia en later by \u2019n Willistonse plaasskool. Intussen het Piet buitemuurs studeer om pastoor te word.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As pastoor was Smit en sy gesin 19 jaar lank in Calvinia en Vredendal en vier kinders is uit die huwelik gebore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die egpaar het in 2004 na Malmesbury verhuis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPiet was geweldig gedissiplineerd, sistematies en stiptelik, dis waarom hy soveel dinge binne 24 uur kon vermag. Hy het al sy projekte met deursettingsvermo\u00eb aangepak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Intussen onthou sy kleinkinders hom as avontuurlik, fiks, altyd vriendelik \u2013 en vir daardie bergklimme na die grot toe. Hulle onthou hoe hy hulle sou aanmoedig as dinge swaar trek en hulle aangemoedig het om die blink kant bo te hou. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPiet het eers in 2001 aan padwedlope begin deelneem nadat ons dogter Johanna hom aangemoedig het. Sedertdien het hy gereeld eerste en tweede plekke in sy ouderdomsgroep losgehardloop. Ek het gewoond geraak aan Piet wat soggens 3:15 opstaan, eers Bybel lees en bid en 4:00 sy 10 km deur die dorp gaan draf \u2013 sweep in die hand om rondloperhonde weg te hou. Sy draftyd was sy bidtyd,\u201d onthou Susan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pastoor Piet met sy verskeidenheid pette, sy liefde vir rympies maak, die manier hoe hy geleer het om aanlyn preke te maak en uit te stuur, sy #shorts (eenminuut-preekuittreksels wat hy uitgestuur het); hoe geweldig siek hy van Covid-19 was, sal lank onthou word. \u201cMense van heinde en ver het bydraes gestuur sodat hy tuis kon suurstof kry. Die Here het hom wonderbaarlik genees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDan kom sit hy graag saans vir \u2019n tydjie hier by my terwyl ek sokkies vir die kinders brei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMaar toe begin Piet in Augustus aanvalle kry \u2013 iets wat lyk soos epilepsie. Gelukkig kon ons toe wegbreek na ons dogters wat in Oudtshoorn, Swellendam en Hermanus woon. Hy het al drie ons dogters nog op daardie Sondag 18 Augustus vir die laaste keer gesien.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drie doktersbesoeke en verskeie EKG\u2019s later, is pastoor Smit vroeg op 23 Augustus aan \u2019n hartaanval dood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns voel getroos dat Piet in sy eie huis kon sterf en dat hy nie \u2019n lang lyding gehad het nie. Hy sou dit nie kon verdra om vir ander mense \u2019n ongerief te wees nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk is hartseer, maar ek het berusting, want die Here maak nooit \u2019n fout nie.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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