I watched with glee as the Kenya National Anthem was played 8 times at the just concluded World Athletics championships in Daegu (sounds like ndengu) South Korea. It reminded me of the Seoul Olympic games which Kenya also shined in like manner.
Why Seoul Olympics comes to mind is because I was then a student in India. Watching those games together with other nationalities, majority being Indian, made me feel so proud to be Kenyan. Na kweli those are the only rare moments when you can say "najivunia kwa Mkenya".
What made Daegu so special for me was that wonder gal Vivian Cheruiyot who accounted for two of those national anthems. This is a lady who in the past has had to play second fiddle to the great Tirunish Debaba of Ethyiopia who has dominated those races for the last couple of years. It was Vivian's moment, it was her time now, and what a way she shone.
I'm glad Vivian wasn't content with the many silvers she has won playing second fiddle to the Ethiopians. Good is always the enemy of great. Many of us are content in playing second fiddle in their life. Though it is a great achievement to win a silver medal in the Olympics or any other event of that magnitude, you will always have to stand in the podium and listen to the national anthem of the gold medalist. You will always be there smiling looking like the maids in a wedding.
Like Vivian, it's your time now. It's time you realized that you too can be celebrated. You too can shine. Quit being content celebrating others while you too should be being celebrated. Those that are making it don't have two heads and you one. You don't need someone else to birth what God has already put in your heart to do. You can be the answer to your prayers.
I recently had this story by Joel Osteen, there was this man who put 100 dollars in his wife's bible just before the service. Sometime during the service, when it came to the offering time, he asked his wife for 100 dollars. His wife was oblivious of the fact that her husband had put the money there. So she told her husband that she didn't have any money (like most wives tell their husbands). After a few persuasions with no result at all, her husband asked her to open her bible, and viola there was 100 dollars. The moral of that story is that God wont ask you to do something He hasn't equipped you to do.
I like this pastor... "You don't need someone else to birth what God has already put in your heart to do". so true. If someone else gives birth to what we are meant to do, then it's not ours.
ReplyDeleteEnough said. Good reading.
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