He was asked what he did for a living and his answer was a shocker.
He said he was a cook.
A cook? So we thought maybe he didn't get the question quite correctly so we put it differently and asked him what's his occupation was? His next answer was worse than the first.
He said he was a nursing father.
I gave up!!!
He was so proud of what he did that you could literally see his excitement...
Yeah I'm sure you would ask what about his wife.
Well I wondered too and he said his wife is in school just in case you are wondering if she's a young woman,she's not. She was in school doing her PhD programme.
Wow!!!
I was too shocked to ask the other details. He allowed his wife to continue doing what she wanted while he did what he loved which was cooking.
Well that could work if we weren't in Nigeria. But hey! We are in Nigeria and the man was a cook and nursing father and he had fun doing it.
He had worked in various top governmental positions before now but he resigned to do what he loved to do: cook!!!
As strange as it is,that man is fulfilling his passion and having fun doing it. And guess what,his food was tasty!!!!! And his packaging was superb. He does the shopping himself and cooks for occasions like burial,weddings et al...
Why did I bring this out? Sometimes we tend to want to find security in the titles that we have. Let's say you are a lawyer and you are to be introduced you would like the tittle attached to your name. Say Barrister Uriel and so on and we tend to feel that's it.
But honestly when all is said and done, the question would be did you fulfil your purpose? Did you give out something that's inside you? Did you die empty?
I remember another story of a friend of mine. They had a prayer meeting in her church a long time ago and the prayer point was for God to show them their purpose or what they were to do with their lives.
During the prayer week,she had a dream where someone gave her a tailor's measuring tape and said go and sow.
She didn't like that one. As in 'all my degrees I will come and go and use it to sow'. So she neglected it and chased other things. She finished school and was looking for a coperate job,but she couldn't get any and so after Ten years (yeah you heard that, after 10 whole years) she decides to give sowing a try. And guess what? She didn't even go to fashion school, but she could just look at you sometimes without even taking your measurement and do something great with your material. I thought she was lying until I gave her materials for my son. She just looked at him and said come in two weeks and that was it. Just like magic she did something beautiful for him.
So what have you been given to do and you find it beneath you? Just know that at the end of the day,your title won't matter. What would matter is what you did with what you have been given.
Be secured in your identity enough to do what it is and die empty doing it.
Shalom!
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