The Custodian: A Servant that Matters

Introduction:

Welcome my friend!

After writing through sickness last week, I now truly do appreciate the blessing of a sound health. To have the physical capacity to document the words as they flow from the source of it, my creator.

In saying this, I acknowledge that I'm only a mere custodian of these words, with the responsibility to use them to the service of others.

So, thank you for showing up on today's edition of our Friday weekly newsletter which is another opportunity to live out this honour of serving you.

Talking about custodians, if we're asked to mention the most important people around, not many would mention the delivery man who's picked up the groom's suite from the dry cleaner but is yet to hand it over on the wedding morning.

Yet for that groom, bride and their well wishers with them, it's an eager wait for his arrival because he has with him, one of the most important pieces of their big day. Such is the level of responsibility and expectation that comes with being a custodian.

Discussion:

The difference between an owner and a custodian is that while a person has the right to use, give out or even discard their property, a custodian's sole responsibility is to: take care of, keep in order, or use the said item according to the owner's directives.

For instance, the delivery man has no right to try out the outfits or to decide he'll rather keep them to himself and for his own wedding.

This shows that the custodian doesn't have the same rights of ownership and will always be accountable to the owner; a huge responsibility.

■ Recognising What we've been given

Each one of us has certain things that we particularly excel in more than in others; those are our gifts and talents.

When we neglect these abilities to engage in other crafts that are more appealing to us, because they're "popular and prestigious", it's because we've allowed our ego blind us from recognising that we're only mere custodians of these gifts and could easily lose them.

Remarkably, for most of us, it takes the pain of brokenness before we can have an awakening where we first recognise, next appreciate, and then accept to use these gifts.

This turning point is the beginning of our healing and our journey towards self actualisation.

■ Significance of our Role

The relevance of a custodian's duty isn't in the glamour of it but in the need that it meets.

Not everyone is going to be Ben Carson carrying out complex surgeries but we can open the door for the next man and put a smile on his face.

From using our abilities in the service of friends, family, and colleagues in our little corners, we begin to develop the capacity for greater roles in our community, region and so on.

What this means is that we should be humble enough to accept and play our roles diligently wherever we find ourselves until we learn, improve and refine ourselves through committed and sustained self development overtime.

It's not the desire of the owner to overwhelm us with responsibilities so he gradually entrusts more in our hands as we show ourselves to have capacity to handle them.

■Consequences of being a bad Custodian

If the delivery man for some reason heads back to his own home and doesn't give the groom his outfit, it would have ended in disappointment for him and his bride.

When we don't use our gifts we rob the people we're supposed to meet their needs of the solutions we provide to their problems.

Sometimes what this means for us is living in lack. The principle of abundance holds that when we solve people's problems they'll exchange this value for money so much that we can share with others.

■The Rewards of being a good Custodian.

The one that has given us these gifts to use in the service of each other has done so out of love; and responding to his generous gesture with a sense of responsibility is how we show our appreciation.

The reassurance that we matter to him and the confidence to move through our journey knowing that we have his full backing is the ultimate benefit of being an obedient custodian our great master.

Summary:

I know that you're struggling within yourself now to either find the courage to embrace your true self, or to choose the mediocre route of accepting the usual lie that "I don't have any talent"

Every work of the master is a masterpiece.

Master Apprentice.

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