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There is nothing like ever being grateful and appreciating the things we have, especially those things we have labored for or the goals we set out one certain time in our lives that came as an achievement. It could be our first job that at one time was not paying well, the relationship we struggled to build or our present family, even with things not yet as we went them.
Being grateful and appreciating the life we have, how far we have gotten with struggles, the hope for better things to cone is one understanding many of us humans lack. And this so because it’s practically in human nature I think 💭. Or what do you see it as? A big example happened in the garden 🪴 of Eden. God created everything so beautiful 😍 that man should not lack anything. But man failed God because of insatiability. The only Tree 🌳 God told man not to eat, because its a corrupt Tree 🌳. A tree that will bring sin is what man went ahead to eat.
The insatiable nature we have as humans is making us to over look many things around us. And despite we don’t have everything we have dreamed for, does not mean we don’t have something tangible to be grateful for. How about life if nothing? How about good health? A home were you go back to at the end of everyday? Many are out there who do not have them but they keep hope alive.
For me as a person, everyday is a new opportunity to be grateful to with life and breath that I have. Everyday brings hope and expectations, because my mother never told me that life is full of good things without struggles. So why will I not live with gratitude 🙏 while hoping for the better days? And God has declared in His word that “what ever we ask of Him, He will do for us”. This does not also mean that there will not be struggle. God will use one means or the other to answer the request - because how is it that we receive miracles.
I usually go into reflection sometimes in my quiet time. And I will begin to see how far I have come through the years with life. Then I begin to also reflect on the things God has done for me compared to many I started the journey of life with. Then I will start to count my blessings for I am alive filled with good health, I have healthy family without paying hospital bills, have children that God will bless for me, have had the opportunity to share love with few lives and in all, I don’t sleep on the streets. I should be grateful and appreciative in God’s Grace for all these.
What we don’t know as humans is that worry kills. Not that will should not worry as people with blood flowing in our body, but that we should always trust that our problems are in the hands of God the creator because even before we were born, He new what our lives journey will be. So there are some certain things we can’t control. And when it gets to this stage, We will surrender to God while praying. Lets not carry all the things of this world 🌎 on our head because what we planned in life is not turning out the exact way. We will need to keep hope alive and keep pushing without regret.
This is my response to the #hiveleaners featured content for week 213, edition 03
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