Become a better you

Become a better you

                We were made for a reason. Not just to survive in a world built on survival but to become a part of the creation process. To add value to our world in order to make it better for the next man, woman and child. For the next generation to come. We have been told to study this and study that, to live for excellence and success but we have also been pushed to lose value of integrity, diligence and honesty in the process. There is no gain where there is loss of identity and reason. If your life is simply about the things that you have been told matter then what kind of life do you really have? I met a man recently who had found what he wanted to do with his life here on earth and how he wanted to touch lives and interact with people. The problem was that people didn’t see that they required his services so he joined up with other people in the same field of work to create more impact. Strangely, instead of contributory progress, it became more about individual pursuits and selfish ambitious desires, leading this man to ask many questions. One of which was “Why?”

                I have come to realize that we are all gifted in one way or another to reach out to our fellow man, to provide one form of service or the other, to share a smile, a hug, laughter and love but the world we live in is not setup with those kind of laws and rules. What was once good has been laboratized and turned into a science of only the strong survive. While this is true, there is a reason for this perceived madness in nature. Motion, progress, growth, discovery. Whereas in human life, because reason exists among us, it was meant to be that we abide, prosper, multiply and have dominion over the earth. What we have come to love and live is not the way of truth. Yes, we have human factions: a group of friends, people, community and category types, but we are all human, different in our own unique ways. One to another.

                Think about this, if there already are problems in the world, problems that you identify and recognize, problems that you wish were not there. Why do you become a part of the problem to another human life? Why would your life take away from someone else’s as opposed to creating value and making them better off for coming in contact with you? Is it possible that in our journey, our journey through life, passed down from one generation to the next, we have been taught a great evil, an evil that has become a part of the formation of the current generation and one that continues to strive strong in the hearts of many?! I know that I cannot change the world alone or do some catastrophic good that will save mankind; that has already been done on the cross. But as I have also come to learn, good is a choice, love is a choice and life is a blessing. To see the beauty in all of God’s creations. To love and live honestly, to give sacrificially and to believe in a world to come where all is well.

                As you leave this write and go back to your life, I hope that I have been able to surge you with enough reason to find the warmth in your heart, the truth in your life and the gift you were born to share. Not just for the profit it may or may not bring, but for the message to all of those who come in contact with you. Stay blessed.