Sleeping in a Coffin?
Point of correction, I do
not sleep in a casket, I sleep on my bed, it's big and comfy, I only lay in my
"casket"when I do my meditation because it helps me to be focused, it
tells me more about the imminence of death. My casket is a reminder. It wakes
me up from slumber. It tells me, "guy, you have got little or no time
left, wake up, be creative and work”. Continue...
Of course, when I read some
of the comments of my people, I know a good number of us are ill-informed about
quite a number of things. I think it is more of what the casket represents that
shocks my people and they start reading meanings into it, depending on their
level of understanding. But one question is, what if the same wood that was
used to build the casket was used to make a sofa chair? May be, all the hullabaloo
about me sitting on a chair wouldn’t have been there in the first place? So
when people vocalize their disapproval of my message via the image of a
casket, I understand that they do that
from a position of Fear, fear of what the casket represents - Death. So
whatever people fear they antagonize. But, the fact that I have reminded myself
and even you about death does not really change a thing. It won’t draw your
death near, and it won’t even shift it away. All it does is simply a reminder,
to thread carefully.
MY Coffin sensitizes
Only if a kidnapper can buy
a casket for himself today, and begin to lay inside, constantly reminding
himself that death looms even as he goes about kidnapping and extorting money
from families. It’s possible to realize at a point that all his activities will
one day end up in a casket, and there, his flesh will rotten. The same is
applicable to all evil doers. They need to realize, like in the famous book,
“Waiting for Godot” that the world is bizarre and empty, as vanity plus vanity
will always end up in vanity. Crime no dey pay jor.
My Coffin preaches:
Take a critical look at my
image inside the coffin, it speaks volume. I always lay in my casket with my
cap, glasses, shoes on. I’m always well dressed. Yes, it is always done
intentionally to tell us that your glory disappears with all the wealth you must
have acquired the very day you go to that coffin. Your glory-your cap goes with
you, your vision-your glasses goes with you; your struggle-your shoes goes with
you. The only thing left of you is your history and your legacy. The crux of
the message is to leave a legacy, so we can live forever, not in the physical,
but in people’s memories. As for me, I
will live forever. You dey vex???
We are blind because of our
fears
Who knows what any of us
sees from the privacy of our own blindness? Make no mistakes, each of us is
blind in a particular way, just as each of us is sighted uniquely. Consider how
each of us is blinded by what we fear. If we fear heights, we are blind to the
humility vast perspectives bring. If we fear Passion, we are blind to the comfort
of Oneness. If we fear change, we are blind to the abundance of life. If we
fear death, we are blind to the mystery of the unknown. And since to fear is
something thoroughly human, to be blind is unavoidable. It is what each of us
must struggle to overcome. To a large degree, I have overcome my fear of death,
all I ask God, is that may my death not be painful. I’m sure some of you know
how my cousin who was killed by kidnappers died an agonizing death. You see, in
the course of our lives, we all stumble and struggle, repeatedly, in and out of
relationship, in and out of the grace of the hidden wholeness of life, most of
us struggle and stumble with the uncertainty of tomorrow as Nigerians. I have
discovered that in the course of our lives, and as blind children, we may never
know what we are called to be until we have learned what we are called to
become by simply overcoming our fears. In life, death is the most important
reminder of all activities. Abi you dey vex???
Source; LIB
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