When I was younger, because my teleportation
powers had not kicked in yet, the age of
30 was like the upper limit to all the cool and great things that I would do.
In my head, by 30 I would obviously be married and
enjoying all the movie like bliss of a husband and wife including sex every day.
Yeah I realize how unrealistic that is but back then sex seemed like the best
reason to get married, especially for a true-love-waits card totting hyper
spiritual overzealous pubescent Homo sapiens.
I also imagined I would have given up jeans and
t-shirts as I embraced my new found wealth and jobs and status in life. That I was
not looking forward to but imagined it was part of the growing up package.
I believed I would be an admired member of the
church straddling succeeding at that precarious balance between work and
ministry. I even believe I would be giving lavishly to the church coffers and would
not need to heed those stuff old men and women at church stuck in the past.
There were so many dreams and visions and
ambitions that filled my head each day and I prayed and planned for them as
best as I could. I read books. Wrote the vision down. Looked for partners who
dreamed as I dreamed. Declared prophetically. All this and more.
I can confidently tell you that very little of
the stuff I dreamed about has come to pass when and how I thought it would. In fact
some dreams have been abandoned all together and as 30 is winking at me from
around the corner I still have a long to do list. But here are a few things
that have not really gone according to plan, the minor setbacks in a major
operation as it were.
I am still very much a t-shirts and jeans guy. More
jeans and t-shirts than I think is healthy. Every time I have a dress shirt and
pants event I really really have to plan. Many times I am like, where did I leave
that shirt or I have to go buy a shirt just so people don’t get too bored of
the 4 shirts I have.
I am definitely not married. Trust me I have
tried but chic’s can knife these days. But more importantly I am not too
bothered about being married at the moment. That does not mean I do not want to
get married but it has lost its urgency and shine.
Sadly I am not having sex every day. I still
believe in abstinence and obedience to Gods word about that part of marriage
and life. I shall take this moment to say congratulations to all my married
friends, I hope the sex was worth the wait and if you did not wait…well I hope…well
I hope…hmmmm tight one.
About the admired member of the church…hmmmm that’s
a long story and as of lathering the church coffers with my bounty…I don’t make
it rain but I sure as hell try to make it drizzle.
So two things.
Our tomorrow is totally in the hands of God. We
can plan and do all that, in fact we should, but ultimately our path is the
Lords.
The other is that you may not be where you want
to be at the moment but keep moving forward, we all had to start from
somewhere.
May you find your second wind as you chase all
your dreams.
P.S. i still have not figured out this teleportation thing.
