god For A Day

Well, I am only god for a day not for a full term and after all, there is a GOD above our god, so if I fail to bless those who I do not know. They will know where to put their hopes. In GOD.

It was through a raffle that I was to become a god for a day. My name just got picked out unexpectedly by the god who was going on vacation for a day. What would I do with such immense power? When the humans knew that I was going to be god for a day, they flooded my cell phone with their prayers that my mobile operator had to be changed.

There was only a day left for me to become god for a day and what I saw on that day was unbelievable. Relatives that I had never seen nor heard of were full-packed in our home. Engaged in conversation with my parents and my two older siblings. " Were we planning a wedding?", I asked myself. Or was there a funeral? Hopefully not be a funeral, as could be seen by the clothes put on by most of the family members. " Hello, do you remember me? I am your mothers' aunts' cousin. So in simpler terms, I am your aunt. You have grown big." Who was this woman, who had just said this to me? My mind responded, "Your mother's aunts' cousin. In simpler terms your aunt. Even if she is not your aunt in a direct sense. Just refer to her as your aunt. It is complicated to find a term or attributes." I had never met this woman before and I was sure my mother never knew her either. Did you even get the logic? " Your mother's aunts' cousin. GOD

My aunt (my mother's aunt's cousin) never gave me a chance to respond and she continued, " When you are god tomorrow, please do not forget to bless me. Here are my contact details and documentations. Make sure that I become the Director Of Operations for the Ministry Of Finance. I am your favorite aunt after all. Just process them for your favorite aunt." I had just met this aunt for less than a minute and she was now my 'favorite aunt'. I wish some of the people who would have met me earlier would make me their favorite quickly like my 'favorite' aunt. Or it was because I was going to be god for a day?

I quickly understood the picture in our home. It just turned into a house, not a home. What was I going to do tomorrow? All these people knew I was their messiah but what was I going to do tomorrow? Serve the interests of my family or everyone.

                                       

I had a chance to end poverty in my community. By the snap of my fingers, my community would become New York City metropolitan. What about other communities? What about the rest of the country? What about the world? Surely my community had seen worse days to worse weeks but tomorrow it would see greater days for eternity. That was if the god on vacation would not reverse the blessings when he would be god again. For during his tenure as god, it was like being Egypt for the Israelites. Being in Nazi Germany for the Jews. But oh well, no two days are alike, tomorrow was my day and I would make a lasting impression for a millennium.

"Please son come and join us. Please." "Please son"? I was disfigured. Was it my father's voice? Certainly, it was his voice but that was not the way he would communicate with me. That was not how he would structure his speech toward me. Usually, it would be, " Come over here now, hurry up." Oh, he had to be polite to me. Very polite and humble. Honor his son, (for he was about to be god) like how I was supposed to honor him and his mother. He was surrounded by uncles and other distant grandfathers. His speech to me was short and sharp. He whispered directly to my ear, " Please do not forget to hand us the title deeds for the farms, real estate land and city properties. Also, make sure that we have digital and human security on those properties to protect and serve our interests. Thank you, son."

"Hand us title deeds." Just like handing you someone's property because you are the father of god. My father had taught me that it was corruption that had led to our underdevelopment in the community. It was power grabs that had cost us our future and one-day GOD would bring justice. I believe justice never came in a better form than his son becoming god for a day. Ironically, his prayer was that he must have the same power to do what he despised the most and wanted god to do it for him because god was his son. Amen.

An 'aunt' who wants to be Director Of Operations for the Ministry Of Finance. A father who wants property he never sweated for, I wonder who would send another prayer too. My mother seemed to have been already selling properties that were not in her name and offering jobs in corporates she

never had stakes in. That's the highest level of faith. Or was it? " So I will offer the three of you executive positions in the mining firms. You can become Public Relations Officer, you Chief Executive Officer and finally you Head Accountant. Then....."

Mining firms? Mining firms? What did my mother know about mining? She was a tailor. She had said to those three people, " I will offer you.." Offer them what? If she has nothing. Oh wait, her son was to be god for a day and life could change in a day.

Three prayer requests so far. What about those prayer requests I know exist but I can not hear them? I could know them today but tomorrow the prayer requests that are shouting, screaming and whispering to me would be the ones I will remember the most due to attribution. I see my family becoming wealthy in a day. Becoming elitist. I see people whom I do not know becoming poorer in a day. Others lose what they worked hard to earn. Losing it in a day to my family. To the family of god.

Can I think on my own about what I need to do as god for a day? Not what my 'mother's aunt's cousin' wants, not what my father wants or my mother. Let's separate the needs from wants. But come to think of it, my father needs those properties. He has been an educated laborer. Whose labor has rewarded him with peanuts? On good days round nuts. Tomorrow could be his day, not so much aware of my ' mothers' aunts' cousin'. Well, I will see what I will do for my father. Will not offer him his requests as he wishes but will allow him to work for them. Just like the real GOD, not the god on vacation who would parcel the properties out based on money and blood. Am I wrong or correct?

What about you? What are you going to do for yourself? Are you going to change the world for others and not yourself? Surely the god on vacation changed the world around him before he changed the world of those around him.

I need fast cars, luxury cars, five mansions in all capital cities, six exporting firms and two production companies. A nobody like me from tomorrow will be rich for eternity. What about those poor people? What about fathers like my father? What about them? They believe god can change all their lives but there I am with my plate of prayers already full. Well, I am only god, for a day not for a full term and after all, there is a GOD above our god, so if I fail to bless those who I do not know they will know where to put their hopes. Amen.

"We have been through a lot together. Remember the time when we could not be allowed to apply for the toastmaster society because we did not have the average financial requirements? Remember when we could not learn at school because we had not paid school fees? Denied a human right. Remember when..." I just had a replay of all those events in my mind. I no longer needed to be made to remember anything more. It was my best friend, whom I had been through thick and thin with. He needed the same things as I did. So it meant getting twice as much fortune and some people were to become four times poorer. Well, that is life and that is what the god on vacation was doing. At least I was doing it for a day, not a full term.

" Hello there, can we talk?" "Can you process these documents for me at the Ministry Of Agriculture?" " Can you get me a full scholarship to learn in the United States Of America or Canada at least?" " Can you...Can you...Hello...Hello...process...loan...loan...medicine...beer." No wonder why god went on vacation. This is not an easy job to do unless you are doing it for yourself. Blessing yourself because you are god.

I pray that the developments I bring forth tomorrow do not go against the interests of god when he comes back from vacation the day after tomorrow. Maybe I should not develop some things because he is god and knows the right time to do it. Well if I had not become god, I do not think any of these developments would have been taking place. Do you? I do not. This god was so comfortable in his kingdom and his own doing that he forgot he was god to the people/ humans, not himself alone. It was us humans who had approved one of our own through a ballot that he becomes god among the corrupt gods. So that he would hear our prayers until we realized that all gods are the same. Was I going to be like the rest of the gods? I would be if I did not do what my ' mothers' aunts' cousin' wanted or the rest of the family did.

" GOD, I will be god for a day tomorrow. Help me do what you would do, not what the other god and gods would do. Amen."

god is a minister, a provincial governor, a state governor, a president, a chancellor, a chief executive officer, a vice president, and a mayor. god is not GOD