Once upon a time, there is this young chap went to a soothsayer to inquire about the hope of his future.
Right before his eyes, the soothsayer drew two
circles. One in white and the other in black.
He then put a millipede in between the circles,
saying *"if the millipede crawls into the white
circle, your future will be bright and very great,
but if it crawls into the black circle, then you are
finished and doomed! No future at all!".*
As soon as the insect was dropped in between
the circles, it began crawling towards the white circle.
This chap was super-excited.
But suddenly, as it got to the edge of the circle,
it turned back and began crawling away from
the white circle towards the black one.
The boy watched as the insect progressively
moved farther away from his desire to his doom.
Then, just when the insect got to the edge of the
black circle, this chap steetched his hands,
picked it up and quickly but carefully dropped it in the white circle.
The soothsayer in shock, never seen anyone
intervenes in his own matter, watching all the
while, asked the chap what he did and why he did what he did.
The boy smiled and simply replied by saying
cannot sit and watch my destiny go down the
gloom doom! While I can still do something
about it and to change its course. My destiny is in my hands.
He got up and left.
Many of us are behaving like the flip side of this
chap.
We leave too many things to chance.
We are laid back.
We Watch things messed up right under our
nose and we do nothing to change the course of
what we can help.
Many pray without a corresponding and
conscious effort, forgetting that faith without
works is dead.
What you don't want, you don't watch. If you do
nothing, nothing will happen.
There's a time for everything under the sun..
There's a time to close your eyes in prayers and
a time to open them in action.