Walking back home from a very hectic day, i have 3 kilometres ahead till i get home and i'm wondering to myself, 'how did i get here? Why don't i have a car?' I keep walking at a slow pace engrossed in my thoughts of what i should have and what i need.
Eventually, i get home exhausted, not from the long walk but from the musings of my mind and then pick up my phone to pour out my heart to my love.
After speaking to her, i discover that she even had reasons to be more upset and depressed than i was at that time, my "stress" in no way compared to hers and yet she was still unshaken. I end up petting her and hoping she gets enough rest. I end the call, then call another friend, get into bed still upset, drift off to sleep.
This morning, i'm walking to work and somewhere inside of me, i hear a voice, 'you can walk briskly, you are alive, you have no disease and yet you complain. Are there not others that don't have half of what you have and yet they achieve greatness?'
I am suddenly ashamed of my ingratitude and silently apologise to God. Then the thought comes to me: all i need to be great in life is life itself. God has given me the base ingredient and so i have no excuse not to be great.
At this point, my mind is free of depression and i walk in a new strength of livelihood and greet my colleagues at work with a smile.
This is a lesson to us all, we are blessed with all we ever need, life. We are what we make of ourselves so, get up and make something of yourself. Greatness becomes us, take responsibility for the life you've been given.
Thank you Jesus for life.
