When that degree certificate becomes useless to you

Every time when I looked at those certificates, I am left with this big pain deep inside my heart, I never understood how and why life had to give me this options that never fall between any of my choices. It was at this point I realized that indeed I had one thing to share in common with the Messiah, accepting not our wills.

Being this young man with hopes and big dreams over ambitious rather to say, my targets were never short past my aims because I cling to this ancient philosophy " always aim at the sun whenever you want to land on the moon" perhaps it had some level of sense in it, after all, dreams were valid so did mine.

I looked at them again over and over and wondered, did they serve the intended purpose for me! Was my fate predetermined by the writings on a simple paper? How possible was this? If so, the wordings were quite seductive enough to land me a lucrative job somewhere someplace,  anyway, subtle sigh on this thought.

With all the credentials scattered on my table each with its own magnitude of qualification, I felt empty I felt not worthy in them, they were simply papers positively written with good recommendation, but who told you the outside world shared the same sentiments with them? Food for thought, marveled at this. Actually I had reached that breakeven point where by negativity was sipping into my feeble mind so  quickly at this supersonic speed and as the captain of this ship, I had to hold on this radar so tight, so determined because the rest of the crew members were looking up to me, my future  my family and my dreams.

 Things do fall apart, but not now, to heal with negativity, an effort made trying to confront discouragement, my ship had to sail through this storm, and as human nature would demand on such situation, I went down on my knees.

 " God give me this shiny heart to reflect away every negative idea, discouragements, give me this dark heart that would absorb positivity, hope  a heart that would cuddle faith and embrace nothing short of triumph in every oncoming challenge, Amen" A simple prayer that made me see the light at the end of the tunnel, the  mind that was clogged with heavy waste of the past failures started seeing how impossibilities in human eyes  could be made into great possibilities.

I saw how God was never realistic when he breath  to a lifeless piece of clay and it came to life, how He formed something from northing, I  had to seek Him and ask Him to reveled my purpose, what He meant for me, my divine purpose I knew i had to lean on Him. For long I have been following this paths, putting my hopes in my academic qualifications trusting them ignoring the real purpose, the gift, God given that required no human approval, was the only one thing that could propel me to my greater hights, education was good because it gave you the knowelegde, knowelegde is wisdom as long as it serves you, it's good enough, but when we serve education then we automatically become its slaves, it no longer serves the purpose for us, that i have studied law so i can't do this and that, realy, slavery!

But we all follow this trail even though the writings ahead spelt it that things might not turn that good, we overlooked the warnings , friends I had to pay the price of ignorance with a greater interest than I ever imagined. 

May be you have been there or  might be heading in that course,  as a friend  I can only give you northing but shades of light, create and follow your own path, we can never have a legacy where a mark already exist,  but we can make our own brand of that person that you always want to see in you, leaving to your potential, your dream.

 We can see ahead but that is not enough if we do not have the vision, all we need to do is discover our purpose, no one can do this for us It’s we. Make that one big discovery and leave a life full of meaning and purpose, success is not a fantasy it’s real, something tangible if only the burning desire that flame in us keeps on burning, after all no ceiling is too high to break.