The Mustard Seed Within You

Dear lovely people,

Before 2004, few Americans had ever heard of Obama, let alone considered voting for him but in early November 2008, American politics underwent a historic change. A change that will forever be remembered as the year an African American - Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was first elected 44^th President of the United States of America. Son of a Kanyan father who won a scholarship to study economics at the University of Hawaii, where he met and married Ann Dunham, a white woman from Kansas. Not only was Obama the first African-American president, he was also the first to be born outside the continental United States - Hawaii in 1961.

President Barack Obama is a clear demonstration of the infinite possibilities latent in what I call the “mustard seed within.” If nurtured the right way, it can break all generational difficulties, call them impossibilities to become a universal success story. If Obama became such a monumental success, I think every single person has that same potential to be whatever they dream off. Why?

Deep within every single person on earth without distinction dwells some infinite dormant powers and abilities that you never dreamed of possessing. I am talking about powers that would revolutionize your entire life if awakened and put into synchronized action. You have to trust me when I say deep inside you are resident immeasurable, immeasurable and unlimited powers. These powers are encapsulated inside the “mustard seed within” you and constitute the seed of all greatness.

Once nurtured and revitalized, the mustard seed within would sprout and lead to an eternal revolution that could change the entire course of history forever and put an indelible mark on the sand of times. It happened to Obama. While he was despised as an unknown and insignificant Illinois African-American senator to be pushed aside sooner than later, Obama was busy building support at the grassroots level and using what supporters saw as his natural charisma, unusual life story and inspiring message of hope and change to draw impressive crowds to his public appearances, both in the U.S. and on a campaign trip abroad. Unknown to many, he had planted his mustard seed and was nurturing it every step of the way and when it sprout on November 4, lines at polling stations around the nation signaled a historic turnout and resulted in a Democratic victory, with Obama capturing many Republican strongholds.

The mustard seed within you includes the untapped potentials, undiscovered gifts, unrefined talents, never thought about innovation, unimagined ideas, unwritten songs, discoveries of great value? That Providence has packaged into you to impact our generation and even those to come whether the people around you approve of them or not.

When you plant the mustard seed within you on fertile grounds and it sprouts, the entire human race would know for sure that change has come, impact is in force, revolution is marching in rank and changing the order of things. It happened in American, it can happen in your life such that you will take the stage just like Obam did in Chicago’s Grant Park to acknowledge the historic nature of his win while reflecting on the serious challenges that my lie ahead.