Back then in my secondary school (Mayflower School, Ikenne), we sang so many
inspiring songs and one of them carries the title of today’s article. Some of
us believed those songs so much that we got inspiration from them when we had
our down times. Upon hearing the news about Dr. Myles Munroe’s death, I began
to think and eventually got myself together to write about some of the things
we can take away from his life.
The song says:
‘You can become whatever you choose to be.
No king, no lord, no knave can say us nay
For we believe that man is a potential doctor,
Lawyer or cook or dwarf or giant… whichever
He sets his mind to be… we shall be giants
And therefore we shall work, and work and work and work…
Even if we must work. Work our fingers to the bone… so may it be.
The song perfectly describes the life of this great man who was born into a
poor family with at least eleven children. They had nothing yet he rose to
become something. Who would have imagined that a poor boy from a small country
called Bahamas would be so famous that people all over the world and government
leaders will be shocked by his death?
I think he could have held unto the fact that his family was so poor and
there was not much he could do about that. I call it a fact because whatever
you believe about yourself, even if it is not true, over time will become a
fact. He looked beyond the poverty of his family and made something meaningful
out of his life.
What about those other people who were born into the same situation as he
was. There are so many of them out there who are older than him today. They got
better opportunities and still did not see the light in them. They held unto
the background that they were born into. They kept talking about how poor their
parents were and how they did not get the best connections in life.
