Becoming someone...

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-Anna Quindlen

Have you ever watched a person from a Third World country work your lawn, paint your house, cook for you, or clean your dirt?

Have you ever helped them when they work your backyard? I’m not saying ‘have you supervised them’ or ‘have you given them instructions’. What I’m saying is, have you knelt on the ground and shared the same tools, sweat under the same sun, and drink the same warm water on a similar dirty plastic cup?

Probably not…

And if I ask you ‘why’, you would probably think or say ‘because I don’t have to’.

If so…then YOU HAVE TO.

Life, God, or perhaps destiny, has been gracious enough to you that you have lived a blessed life of comfort. You have been blessed enough that you probably haven’t had to leave your children, career, friends, family, and the land you grew up behind in order to clean the plates where someone else eats. Much worse, you haven’t left all that behind to have that someone look at you with disdain, or even treat you as if you were less.

You may have a rough time at work trying to get a raise or to grow in worth to your company, but at least you CHOSE to work where you do.

So if you ever feel another person needs some help to ‘become someone’ then pause your life for a moment, think again, and BECOME SOMEONE.

Lesson learned: The closer we walk at the bottom the closer we are to the top.