Your abilities will make way for you – Ali Baba writes on Olajumoke ‘The Bread-seller’

I have read, seen and heard so many takes on this
#olajumokeOrisaguna #TyBelloPhotography happenstance.
The thing that still amazes me is the fact that several people
failed to see the undercurrents that make this story
insightful.
First, it is that she was hawking. There was no shame. She
was earning a living. Beautiful as she is, or as we have now
been made to see, she did not sit at home and wait for
opportunities to come meet her. Like Ruth, she went to the
field.
There are other things she could sell, which is the excuse
that many in her position would have given for going into
one of the oldest profession. She didn’t go out all dressed
like her condition (in need of help). She was selling bread
and still came out presentable. If that picture is anything to
go by, she was bold. Not shy. She was not timid. Many of
us want our destiny to be discovered and brought to us
while we are lying on our beds or sitting on our behinds.
Some days back, I shared that, GOD PROMISED TO BLESS
THE WORK OF OUR HANDS.
He told the fishermen, cast the net this way, because you
have been casting it that way and had not caught anything.
He also, did not bring the fish and bread that he multiplied to
feed the multitude. They were brought to him. God has
given you life and you are now to make something out of
that life. God asked Moses what is that in your hand. There
was a reason it was bread that she was hawking. That was
the rod in her hand.
Your abilities will make way for you. She could have been
home and this photo shoot won’t have captured her. Maybe
God would have made the photo shoot happen in the house.
Maybe! My point is that if you want God to make you win a
lottery, at least buy the lottery ticket. It is your efforts that
get rewarded. Not your laziness. Even when opportunity
comes, there is still work for you.
An advert agency guy heard the voice of the bar man. Those
convincing velvety baritone. The peoplekind that makes you
listen to a jingle and yield your ears and eyes to the
television commercial. He took him for some auditions.
That’s talent meeting opportunity. But the real work will
follow seizing that opportunity. Moses’ mother didn’t wait
for pharaoh’s daughter.