I've spent three days and nights stuck on the high seas with no food or water and no land in sight. I was on my very last ounce of strength...that was when I heard it, a wail in the distance, no, it wasn't a wail, it was my name... someone was calling unto me.
I looked towards the voice, it was a woman dressed in a blue gown, my mother. Which seemed odd but it wasn't all the same as I was not really on the high seas and that was just the 9 year old me, making paper boats and setting them sail on a puddle of water.
I'm not much of a sailor but I've imagined sailing the high seas, navigating paths and reading the skies, with nothing but miles and miles water stretched under the wide endless sky. Sailing towards the horizon, were the sea and sky meet, the great unknowns.
The sky and sea have always felt so similar to me. As soothing as they can be, they both hold mysteries and depths beyond human reach, depths where even sunlight loses it way, creatures and treasures buried deep within them unheard of, lands and worlds lie beyond them undiscovered.
Sometimes I wish I could explore them all but I can't, I'd probably get sea sick and I'm terrified of heights. It’s probably my obsession with discovering new things that drives this wild imagination, but it’s fun you know...discovering the unknowns.
However, there's another great unknown that lies within me, a mystery I unravel every day. The mystery of who I am and the treasures deep inside me. I've always been one with new and shiny ideas every waking, talking, cooking, playing, writing, cleaning, studying, working, singing, sleeping moment of my life.
I want to draw the world, write a million stories, open a cute stationery store, buy my favourite car, see the northern lights and find that heart tingling love...but sometimes I feel like I barely have time and there’s just this little me.
Have you ever felt like 24hours is too short for a day? I feel like that a lot and some nights even my dreams keep me awake. I mean no one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. (NKJV Matt.5.15)
As much as this light burns inside me, I've learnt to calm down and start somewhere. Read a book today, write a story tomorrow, and then draw the day after. Just take one step every day that leads me closer to where I want to be. I've also learnt to commit all to God and let him lead my way, cos the tides and waves of this world are a little too crazy and unpredictable.
I know there's a spark inside you too, maybe even a flame or a blazing inferno. Come take my hand, let’s soar and sail together. After all the sky is big enough for ever bird to fly and the sea vast enough for every fish.
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