What’s your purpose on Earth?
Happy New Year – 2012
The first day of this new year is about to come to a close. No major events yet. I got a visit from my cousin, and a phone call from a close friend (since she got married, it’s like our paths will never cross again. One family function after another – well, the joys of being single, even your gal friends become almost out of reach). But thanks for phones and email.
I spent the whole day holed up in my Queendom. I was hoping to leave the house…but experience has taught me, once you leave the house, you walk into unnecessary expenditure. And at this juncture, I am on Island Brokeness. It’s better to stay out of view.
Now, the idea behind this post.
About a week ago, a gal friend of mine sent me a message so early in the morning, it read (not to paraphrase), ‘Have you ever felt that your purpose on Earth is complete…and no! I am not going to commit suicide.’
I laughed out so loud, I had to peer through my window, to see if there was a pedestrian out there, who might have heard me laugh and think there was a crazy person in here. I mean, what do you mean that you purpose is complete? At 36? Please. Wait, let me take a sip of tequila. Taking a whole shot might disorient me and the year is barely here.
For all I know, the only person who completed their purpose here on Earth was Jesus (that is if you are Christian). He was around here for…was it 30 years? Then He went back to Heaven (so the story goes). But then again, He’s still in the business of healing and interceding for all mortal souls. So, really, so long as you’re still breathing, walking and have all your faculties in good working condition…you are nowhere near completing your purpose. No! Never!
Just because you’re still single, have no kids to show for your femininity, have not got that big break for a good job, live in a shoe-box in the name of a house (like a host of single guys and gals these days in Nairobi), can afford to eat only one meal a day, have no one inviting you for all those big functions for one reason or the other, have married women looking at you funny – always thinking that you are after their husbands, who have turned wayward courtesy of they themselves, or have married jamaas looking at you funny any time you come round for whatever party, you don’t have ten degrees like your next door neighbour, have never been on a plane or crossed any of our Kenyan borders to go anywhere, don’t have at least one white, Sudanese, Ethiopian friend to brag about.
People, please! Take a moment to breath. Thank you.
There is a lot more to life than those countless degrees, that six figure paying job, having those kids, that elusive husband, that palatial mansion in Kitusuru, driving that Range Rover Sport, wearing the latest Victoria Secrets outfits…
Let’s get serious here for a moment.
Each of us has a purpose in this life. If we were done, then don’t you think, the moment people retired from active service in office, they’d just die off? Of course, what else was there to be done or live for?
Seriously!
Life is a mystery. We move from one stage of life to the other. That is why we develop from an embryo to a foetus, to a baby, to a toddler, to a teen, to a young adult, to an adult, to a middle aged person, to a grandparent and finally, God calls us home. But then again, please remember that, it is only God who decides when your purpose on Earth is fulfilled. That is why we are born and die at different times. Some expire while still embryos, others while foetuses…
There is so much to be done in one’s lifetime. Encouraging other people, working to make life better for other people, making your parents happy they have you as their child, a shoulder to lean on for your siblings, a good colleague and employee…the list is endless. So, why someone would thing they have fulfilled their purpose, is a wonder to me.
I remember a hymn we used to sing when I was a young gal in primary school.
‘He’s still working on me, to make me what I ought to be
It took Him just a week to make the moon and the stars,
Sun and the Earth and the Jupiter and Mars
How loving and patient He must be
He’s still working on me’
This hymn clearly states that God is not done with us. No! He’s still creating, still interceding, still blessing…so how would a mortal soul say their purpose is complete, yet God is still busyworking on each of us? I wonder.
Let us look beyond the here and now. There is more to life than what society expects us to do…the norm.
If you think you’re done…then I think you need to re-evaluate your life. Don’t measure your life according to society’s score card. We cannot all be the same. God created us in different time lines to fulfil or complete different tasks, in His given time and space.
I don’t go to Church much these days…and I am slipping ever so slowly and far from God, but I still know my Bible. Do some soul searching to know your true calling and purpose in life.
There are times I have felt like giving up, throwing in the towel…even committing suicide, but I tell myself, let’s hold on and see what tomorrow holds for us. As I write, I feel like crap, because I am all alone on yet another mile stone in life, but I cannot just throw my hands up and wallow in sorrow. I took a warm shower and dressed up in an outfit I bought myself recently and have worn only once. I stayed in doors, with my telly and Keith (my laptop) and gave thanks! Though today my Citizen signal is BAD!
No one promised an easy life. No one said life would be fair. No book says this is how life starts and ends for each mortal soul. We all try our best to make a difference the best way we know how.
We make mistakes (I know I do lots of times), but God gives us another chance and a new day with renewed strength.
I could go on forever. Remember, give thanks in every situation, no matter how bad. Everyday has a new challenge. Every day has a new road map, find it and follow it. If you don’t find the road today, there is tomorrow to do that. Do what you can today and give thanks. Look forward to tomorrow, the day you make another soul happy.
One thing though. Don’t tell people what you are planning to do. I have learned the hard way that people talk ill on your plans and they fall short…and they laugh at you. Another thing, be wary of your friends. They could easily kill you.
Blessings in 2012.
