Sailing Through The Dark
---Jarod
Kintz
We must free ourselves of the hope
that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
“Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the
difficult and challenging times we all go through. The trick is to celebrate
the good times in advance of the difficult times. Always remember, good times
await you after the difficult times pass….”
---James A. Murphy
---James A. Murphy
The
journey of a man in life is definitely through the dark, we have no idea what
the future holds in it for us, there are seasons of peace and celebrations, and
periods of turbulence and worries, but through all, we try to survive, get
refined and come out alive and blessed, otherwise going faint-hearted, you
chicken out of the race, get bruised, broken and covered in shame. The realest
way to go about life is to be determined to get blown by the wind but not lose
your feet, gather the spoils that came with the storm; pick up wisdom and
knowledge from the experience and make it your breastplate as you approach the
future.
The world of man is weaved with the unknown, we live
to understand its mystery. When a man and woman decide
to have a child of their own, neither of them knows what could be the sex of
the child and how many children may result from the sexual intercourse? The
innocent child(ren) that comes from the union also has no knowledge of the
would-be parent. From the conception of the baby in the womb, all human beings
start their life in the dark. The foetus goes through stages as the baby is
fully formed swimming in an unknown environment and the survival of this innocent
baby becomes dependent upon the mother. As life may have it, some babies die in
the womb or some makes it to life but the mother dies at or before birth, these
are sorrowful events that we pray God forbid it happen. The lives of you and I
starts with struggles in the dark bloody bag of life where we pray and wish to
escape our one-man world to make it out to the universe, the world of humans
where unknown to us are greater battles to be fought and tougher challenges to tackle.
We are totally unaware of what we would
become or become of us, we are uniformed of trials and woe that may betide us,
and we have no knowledge of our victory, success, fulfillment and joy that may
have no bound. We are the sailor fully armed by our creator sailing through the
dark waters of life who is ignorant of his capacity to sail through even in
high winds.
I
want to congratulate you and I for coming to the world, i salute our bravery to
accept the invitation of our parents, swam in blood for 9 months (more or less)
and survived this period, came out to life, amazed as families and friends
welcomed us with smiles and laughter, and as innocent as we are, we responded with
cry and tears of joy which is our simple expression of ‘oh I made it through the dark and pool of blood to life’. I
sincerely want to say to you that even for having gone through that stage and
made it to life, you are a victor.
Hello,
we are here already and this world will be our abode till we pass away, as we
have no place to run to; we must march forward with courage and confidence
expecting the unexpected. It would have been easy sailing across the face of
the earth if the next event(s) in our life can be predicted like the
meteorologist predicts everyday weather but the weather of our very lives
cannot be predicted by any man, that is why life is designed for the brave and
bold who are wise enough to know that the idea of life by God is to make it
unimaginably interesting as we unveil the awesome and the awful situations of
life and savor the sweet and bitter experiences, and be full of thanks as we
count our blessings, name them one by one and it will surprise us that our
failures, rejection, confrontations and challenges are meant to make us
stronger, valuable and fulfilled.
I laugh at that man who says I can read the future
of another man; it’s pathetic to know he also do not have an understanding of
his fate and future, he is also searching for answers to the questionable
events of his life, why go you this one? All men are blind; we all wait on the
events of life for direction, we all sail in the dark.
As
we sail in the dark across the oceans of life, let the word of God be a light
unto our path, let it be our sun in the day and our moon in the night. Take it
out of your mind that the sea will ever rest, you must learn and be prepared to
sail when it is stormy. The book of Psalms 34:19 says ‘many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivers him
out of them all’. It is good to know that the mastermind of the earth and
its fullness thereof, do not promise us that we would not be afflicted or have
troubles in our life, He only urge us to endure the turbulent time, stay strong
and patient because He would arise when our strength fails and our foot lose
its balance to deliver us and give us victory that would make us forget our
sorrows and agony.
As
we sail across the oceans of life, throw your net to the waters and catch
enough fishes that will satisfy you, your household, people out there and maybe
even generations after you. When I say fish i mean go after every opportunity
that arise in life that you can with no fear imagine yourself capable of doing.
Not everything that glitters is gold, not all opportunities that pose itself so,
are suitable for you but whichever you can visualize yourself launching into
without any form of cowardice, go for it, pursue it and give it all your energy.
Celebrate
good times in advance of difficult times, since anyway difficult times will
come, it is enough reason that we remain happy because good times will surely
come to comfort us for staying strong through the storm. I want to wish you a
successful and blissful voyage, and the courage and strength to sail in the
dark across the deep waters of life, stay fulfilled.
God Loves ♥ You
Ogundipe Clement Shola
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