Dear lovely people,
“The moment you realize that you can
have everything you want in life. However, it takes timing, the right heart,
the right actions, the right passion and a willingness to risk it all. If it is
not yours, it is because you really didn’t want it, need it or God prevented
it.”
At dawn, Jobo was far into his
journey. He was determined to experience this exceptionally beautiful land as
the first from his community such that he could retell the story to the others.
It was not an easy journey, the terrain was difficult with twists and turns,
rugged lands, difficult woody valleys and hills to go through but Jobo was unyielding.
On the fourth day of nonstop
trekking through the most difficult terrains one can imagine, Jobo was almost
at his destination. He came out from a thicket with all expectation to set foot
onto the ‘promised land’. Just a
distance ahead was his destination but one last major obstacle separated him
from that joy, that expectation of self-fulfillment. In front of him was what
seemed like a bottomless gulf stretching the length of the horizon and about a
kilometer wide.
Jobo came to an abrupt stop, convinced
his journey had come to an untimely end. True, his destination was clearly in
view ahead. He could get the fait sounds of singing birds from the distance and
could tell there was abundance of life on the wonder land but how was he ever to
get there after four days of trekking and the craziest risk taking?
Jobo sat there dumfounded. What
was he to tell his waiting kindred on return? What about his ambition of becoming
a hero, the first man to get to that land? One thing he was already sure of was
that he could not cross such a frightening gulf all alone. He told himself that
even if he got to the bottom of the gulf, there he was not sure to climb out
the other way alive. There would certainly be wild animals; carnivores or some
mysterious creatures down there just waiting have him for lunch.
You realize that Jobo was driven by a dream that
propelled him forward but along the line, just when he would attain his goal,
he let secondary discouraging thoughts take it away from him. Doesn't it make
you wonder what could happen to your world if you listened to your heart and
followed your Big Dream to finish?
Maybe your Big Dream is telling you to start a
farm (because that’s where the future you seek resides). Perhaps it is telling
you to start a charity organization (which will then help the lives of many).
Your Big Dream is what wakes you up in the middle
of the night whispering to you about the screenplay you want to create about
your life. These dreams in our hearts, they are waiting just around the corner
for us yet if we don't step forward, sometimes blindly with trust, we don't see
them standing there awaiting to celebrate our arrival as we round the bend. Do
you wonder what will happen if you don't walk around that corner to meet the
moment that is beckoning you?
You get the point? I know that inner reality creates
outer results. I equally know that our willingness creates the transformation
of our world. I know this because life gave me an early life of
suffering before joy. Jobo’s Big Dream was short-lived because he did not round
the corner owing to what he thought were laws of limitation due to historical
pain and so he couldn’t step onto the “promised
land”. He stood in agony on the other side across the land that epitomized
his dream and separated from him by a harmless valley with a mirage of clouds
and imaginary weird sounds.
In all circumstances, I can only attribute the success of any
venture to a supernatural assistance from Grace, along with a resolute belief
that it was possible to succeed. Jobo should serve as a teacher to many, teaching us that no matter
what the dream, if our heart and soul is not in it, the limiting laws of this
world will stop us from reaching the summit.
