How a Cow Can Teach Us About Our Life Mission

Now, we all want to have some meaning in our lives and most probably the first idea that comes to our mind is to go onto some crusade or missionary mission to some distant land to convert people. Even saints such as Saint Teresa of Avila dreamed of that; when she was seven, she and her brother Rodrigo made a plan to run away to Africa with the idea of being beheaded by the infidel Moors and so achieve martyrdom. However, as cool as that may sound, that is probably not what our Father in heaven has in store for us. For that, we can make a comparison between Kavarti and Abraham.

Both started a nation. Kavardi created the Nellore breed, and Abraham created the Jewish nation. For God told Abraham:

As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. No longer will you be called Abram (“exalted father“), But your name shall be Abraham (“father of a multitude”), for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you ( Genesis 17: 5,6).

In 1 Peter 2:9-10, we see:

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

It is even funny that both Abraham and Kavardi founded a nation in other countries: Abraham left his hometown of Ur in Mesopotamia to establish himself in the lands of Cana, and Kavardi left India to create the Nellore breed in Brazil. To be honest, if all they both did was basically multiply. In fact, in Scripture we read:

Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the dearth and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth (Genesis 1:28).

And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel (Exodus 19:6).

But you only have one child you say, so there is little you can do, right? Now, consider this: you put 1 wheat seed in a chessboard square, and then two seeds in the following, and four in the next one, and so forth until you reach the final square numbered 64. How many seeds you will have? Easy: 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 (eighteen quintillion, four hundred forty-six quadrillion, seven hundred forty-four trillion, seventy-three billion, seven hundred nine million, five hundred fifty-one thousand, six hundred and fifteen: over 1.4 trillion metric tons, which is over 2,000 times the annual world production of wheat. So, your child can have just two children which each can have just two children so in just a few generations there will be as many descendants from you as Kavardi had. In fact, Abraham also had just one son and from that son, God was able to create an entire nation.

Finally, in the diary of mystic Elizabeth Kindelmann, we see Jesus telling her:

You always wanted to go to the missions. That was impossible. You had to mature in the womb of your family. Your principal missionary work will always be your family. The work there is not finished. Be interested principally in priestly vocations.

This is what our ultimate mission is: to have descendants fully aware they have a loving Father in heaven so they can pass along the knowledge to their descendants until we have a whole nation of sons of God or, even better, of priests.

If we can’t understand or believe the history of Abraham, maybe the story of a cow will help us understand.