Signed, Sealed… Delivered

I was never big on Museums or the arts, i could never understand why a piece of paper with a bunch of colours placed on them and then signed with the name Van Gough or Da Vinci could fetch millions. It amazes me how we devote huge resources and real estate to display the works of art created by certain specific people in history. All because of the signature that is stamped onto the artwork. A label that distinguishes the sculpture, a unique flow of ink that relates the painting back to a single person, to tell the rest of the world that this right here has their signature on it, and it is theirs.

It seems that the signature a product carries, can and will effect it’s intrinsic value.  And I’m not here to slam any product names, because i own and prefer to lean to those ‘bigger’ names due to the quality and workmanship that the signature is supposed to carry. But what i would like to do, here and now, is to make known another signature that we easily overlook, a sign that tells us we all have intrinsic worth and value.

And that worth and value is ironically found in the emptiness of your hands.

Your fingerprints, a signature that distinguishes you from the 6.5 billion other people in the world, a message that screams out ‘You are not a product of a puddle of goo that slowly evolved into you today’ you were uniquely and intentionally designed by me, and i have put my signature in and on you, that i don’t have a rubber stamp that i use to sign off many documents but i carefully by myself pick up my pen and write my name on you.

So if you’re like me, sometimes you have your down days and you get slammed because you try to stand for something that this world doesn’t embrace. But in those times, maybe have a glance at your finger tips and be reminded of who you are and who you belong too, and that you don’t need the opinions of others to determine how successful or how valuable you are.

Sometimes all you need is to look through the emptiness, the brokeness, the hurt and the pain and be reminded that you matter, you are valuable, you have a destiny and you are His.

~ by Andy on June 1, 2007.