Everything Is An Egg Shape Novelty
Have you ever gone to the store like K-Mart or some other place and looked at their novelty 25 cent machines? Keanu asks me for a quarter every time we pass by one. I’d rather use the quarter to do my laundry or pay parking at a meter. But there’s something childlike about paying for an egg that you know hides a little secret – it’s innocence is what Keanu capitalizes off of when he asks his aunty for a quarter and works every time. When you put 25 cents in one of these novelty machines, it drops a small container that when you open it lies a special toy. If you don’t open the egg, you don’t get the prize that you may not see, but you know is there.
Today, I learned that there are endless possibilities that one can accomplish on the web; both on a commerce level and on a personal level. A volunteer in the TV Department shared with me that every family; every minister, EVERYONE needs a website – and after thinking about it for 5 seconds, I found myself agreeing with him.
I think when you have a website of any sort, it provides a physical (yet virtual) creation of your dream. As a writer, I know that it’s vital that I have a presence online, and as popular as virtual communities are, they just don’t cut it. Yesterday, I went to bed late last night, designing my website and writing articles. I’m so excited about the articles I’ve written, some of them are old articles that I’ve gotten rave reviews from that I’m choosing to revamp and improve on.
Just the other day, I was reading Ephesians 1:18 and a familiar scripture became so well in my face that I don’t believe I’d even see John 3:16 the same ever again. Eph. 1:18 reads: “…The eyes of your understanding may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of the inheritance of the saints…”
And it was so obvious as daylight that I should ask God to open my eyes more and more to the inheritance that He has for me in supply of the dream that He has given me in my heart. I’ve come to the realization that God gives us dreams; He gives us a callling and a desire to be a voice to our generation. I also realize that God has already given us everything we need to accomplish our dreams – the two things we need to “see” is #1) What we have and #2) How to use it. I realized that the internet is an untapped source that I never really considered for a while, even though I’m somewhat internet saavy.
“Well, why should I have a website when my calling has nothing to do with the ‘internet’.” You ask, and I would reply,
“It has everything to do with your dream, if you can utilize it for your good.”
You see, I’m beginning to even believe that if I got a stone from the Sahara Desert, that it can be a tool to advance the dream in my heart in reaching others. I just need to know how to use this seemingly insignificant “rock” for my good. My nephew and niece, who I absolutely adore, they are just children – but they have a significant value in them that if I can ask God to open my eyes and let me see what they have to do with the calling and “dream” in my heart – I’d find a treasurable inheritance of things so invaluable that could perhaps take me over to the top, if I can just see it.
Everything is a diamond in the rough. Everything. Everything is An Egg Shaped Novelty. Everything needs to be opened up and seen in a different understanding. Those things in your life may not be “egg shaped” as the container that it comes in, but its something that you know is there nonetheless. There’s blessing in tragedy, even though the blessing does not look like the tragedy that it comes in. There’s healing in heartbreak, although, healing and heartbreak are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Your dream can lie in the form a website, a sketch on a diner’s napkin or simply a rock from the Sahara Desert.
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