DARE TO DREAM BIG

I am already 10 minutes late for my board meeting. Everybody is seated and waiting. I apologize and make the same joke I make every time I am late for a meeting, “I am Kenyan you know, I said we meet in the morning, and it is not yet noon, so, I am on time“! This rarely happens and that’s why they all laugh!  I am almost always on time, this is the one thing that could ALMOST make me be called German. I got held up in the office trying to reschedule an Interview I will be doing with a famous author, who has a crazy schedule and not easy to get hold of.

The meeting today is about expanding the Karibuni Jikoni Network to cover the Asian market. Our Research and Marketing Team is back from Beijing, and they have some very positive news. I will be flying to Tokyo, then Hong Kong, and finish up in Beijing, all arrangements have been done. I am scheduled to Cook with some Asian Star Chefs in their Restaurants while interviewing them. They have agreed to do a series of Shows on Asian Cuisine with me.

I am woken up by my daughter in the middle of this beautiful dream, I smile at her and ask her to give me 10 minutes. I get out of bed, kneel and pray! I repeat this dream in my prayer, And at this point, I transform my dream into a wish, and I tell it to my heavenly father at first casually, and later in another prayer, as a formal request. I then leave it up to him to know when He will grant me this wish. I still remind Him every now and then, but in the meantime, I continue working hard on the wishes that have already been granted.

Dream big?

Sometimes my dreams are so big that they scare me, and they scare me because I know that I just don’t let them remain dreams. I sometimes even think that I annoy my heavenly father with my persistence, but then again, He tells us in the Bible in the Book of James 4:2 …”You have not, because you ask not”, so I ask!

When I was 12, I saw a movie about a family of four, a father, mother, son, and daughter riding bicycles in the woods. The scene remained with me and some days later, I dreamt about it. This time, it was my husband, our two children, and me. Our children were mixed race, what we used to call “Pointees”! And like I always do, I prayed about it, and continued praying about it. I did not let being born in a slum and not even having a bicycle of my own or even the fact that I did not have any contact with white people limit what was possible for me.

 In 2012, when our son turned three and could ride a bike on his own, we did a bicycle tour in the woods, my husband in front of us, our daughter behind him, and our son in front of me, my Kids are Kenyan-German; mixed race! I cried for about an hour, tears of joy, because, 20 years later, my dream had come true. And I can narrate at least a hundred of such stories.

 Notably, I have learned to relive my dreams, fantasize, to be in those places I dream about, to write those dreams down and pin them on my Vision Board, to talk to and with myself about them, to keep them present in my mind. I have a feeling that I dream about things that I wish for, so I am not sure what comes first the dream, or the wish… but does it matter?  All I know is that I bring it all to the Lord in prayer. I let Him decide when I am ready to receive the blessing, though I may sometimes get impatient, I never lose my faith and I remain hopeful!

More often than not, I am very clear about what I want and I work towards achieving that, I am also very specific in my prayers. I think God is a busy person, and because I know that He takes time to listen to my prayers, I don‘t want to abuse this advantage by littering all over him with unnecessary words. So I first prepare my notes before I have those meetings with him, just to make sure I have put my most important points across before he starts running out of patience. You know, I know how I am, so just in case, He is like me, points noted!  I am precise, very specific, and consistent. I have small and big wishes/dreams, and as I said, sometimes I get impatient, but I never fail to recognize and take time to thank Him when He grants me even the smallest wish.

At the moment, I am thanking Him for every like and view on Chef Carol’s Show. I am already building my Karibuni Jikoni Network, I am working hard so that my Father can see that I am capable of handling more. 

So the day I will be seated in my Private Jet heading to Tokyo, you can imagine what a party, “Kigosho (Praise) Party”, that will be for my team and me!

Is this too much for you to digest?

That’s the same feeling I get sometimes, but it doesn’t stop me, I am not afraid to DREAM BIG! And even if, it just remains a dream, it doesn’t really matter, I nevertheless enjoy living in it, every now then, because it is a beautiful place to be in. Now, don’t make me tell you how often I sit in that Private Jet opening a bottle of Champagne dancing to Jerusalema. It’s up to you. DARE TO DREAM & DREAM BIG!

Carol.

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