The Road to Becoming Masters
By
Delroy
Meadows
February
3rd, 2011
Today I question everything. No more am I to believe that in my
mind laid a good foundation of reasoning, of character and the value of past
pursuits. I have had an awakening and I prefer nowadays to filter my thoughts
carefully to find the truth behind every word that was given to me. I am
creating a new foundation in my mind. One built on rock and not sand. Today I
question it all.
I believe that times
are changing. There is a feeling of change in the atmosphere like the sound of
a distant wave drawing near the shore. A spirit of liberation and new hope can
be felt on the horizon. Bahamians are beginning to realize the importance of
time and the power of their own personal influence.
Unity is Coming
I believe that what
makes a people significant in the world is their ability to stand out and not
be dominated.
A nation is made
vulnerable to the world when its leaders appear to lean against the will of its
people. Situations of division within a country do not go unnoticed by the
outside world. Opportunists flock to such places seeking to exploit this kind
of vulnerability.
Unity exhibited openly
among the Government and its people is an essential deterrent to these types of
individuals. We are attractive to the Cable and Wireless’s of the world not
because of what we have but in-fact it’s what we don’t have that’s the magnet.
It is better to live underground than on a surface governed by weak leadership
and imitators of the world.
We must understand that
being a follower of the world makes us vulnerable to their old schemes and
their old ideas. If our creativity does not match or elevate beyond that which
we see abroad we will forever have to fight for things that should today be meaningless.
The Road to Becoming
Masters
I believe that we are
on the road to becoming masters. There are moments in life where even a nation
is given a second chance by God to fulfill its purpose. The spirit of rulership
that exists within each of us stands in line today, awakened from its dormant
state and ready to carry out the task.
The road to this
wealthy place is not an easy one as the past has clearly showed us. We will
have to be tried and proven through fire and water to make it over this obstacle.
When we succeed we must remember also the mistakes of the past and be
careful not to repeat them. I am confident that we will be a stronger
generation this time around but still let us not forget.
We must remember to
cast aside the old ways of how we operate in Government. There will be no place
to sit in the parliament of the future for those who are too stubbornly set in
their ways to understand that unity in the best interest of the people should
be paramount to everything else.
We have a challenge to
be met that is far greater than our own personal ambitions. Unless this nation
is prepared to face the new world that’s presently rising before us we will not
make it. The world of tomorrow will have no room for countries governed by
people who are not masters of their environment. Today we bare wittiness to
superpowers that are scouring the globe for such places to colonize and unless
we establish ours we can be assured that one will be established for us.
I refuse to believe
that it is the will of God that we are to remain in
thispowerlesscondition. The events that led to our independence and
the circumstances of today are evidence that there is a calling for us to
become masters in this world. Let us not rule out the capability of our people
to stand out and dominate on or above the level of the greatest nations we see
around us. The minds of our people can be driven further than we can imagine
once opened to the knowledge of its capacity.
The significance of the
tugging that keeps drawing us back to this place has to be seen for what it is—
that we are not an average people.
We live today because
there exists in each of us a contribution to be made towards the establishment
of this common goal.
This time around let us
outstretch our hands to embrace the freedom that was promised to us years ago
and not the chains of oppression.
