THE REVELATION OF CONTENTMENT

Hey, Guys!

How has the week been? Work, School, Friends, Family, Lovers, and Haters? Honestly, my prayer is that they are all okay.

Early this morning while I was taking a bath, I noticed something unique for the very first time in my life. I have been bathing there for days, weeks and even months not to have realized. It felt so much like I had been blinded for too long.

Usually, when I'm taking a bath, I use this plastic bowl I got from "the place" to pour water from my smallish bucket to my body. And this very morning I just put the bowl into the bucket to get water to pour on my body only to realize that the bowl felt a lot larger and heavier!

Then I decided to pay attention to the bowl and discovered it wasn't the usual the place bowl that was in my bathroom. And then I managed to cope with the different feel.

And I was pouring and pouring and suddenly, the water in the bucket had finished! I tried thinking back to recall if I had forgotten to fill up the bucket before taking a bath. I couldn't remember the water pouring onto the floor or the waste of a drop. And then the revelation Struck me!

 Whatever we have and whatever we own is just enough for us. My water, my bucket and my the place bowl was just perfect to take a bath every morning. But then I came across a bigger and heavier bowl and decided to try it regardless and I couldn't handle it. I wasted all my water.

Do you see the truth in this?
Sometimes in life, we think we aren't comfortable and we want to live large, live like Kings and be on top of the world. But can we really handle it?
Of course, If I had taken precautions of the bowl's wide mouth and it's ability to take more water, I would simply have reduced the quantity of water at a time. But I was nonchalant because after all, it's a bowl as well.

Where we are today, we may be struggling and we know it. But we are more eager to experience a turn around than we are prepared to handle the change.

Every advancement in life comes with a greater task. Just as the bowl felt bigger and heavier, in life a step forward would be bigger but a lot heavier. We can't keep pushing to lead without preparing for leadership, we can't keep fighting for more without preparing a space to accommodate the increase.

I learned a big lesson this morning and I just thought it would be nice to share with you.
Have a wonderful day.