Everyone is blessed by God but not everyone knows and accepts how blessed they are.
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I was born in a poor family where we are one among the most indigent family in our Barangay. I was the eldest since my older brothers or sisters didn't make it to see the world as my my mother lost them while they are still two months i think in her womb. It was a twin and I felt so sorry knowing about it. How I imagined to have an older brother or sister. My father don't have a regular work, he is just doing some farming even without a farm. He is just planting some crops and fruit trees along and besides the creek.
We cannot eat rice three times a day but we can still eat three times a day. We usually have rice in the morning or in the noon time and plainly root crops in the evening. I can still remember our mother keeps on telling us that it is good to eat root crops in the evening because we will just go to sleep and we cannot feel hungry anymore. No electricity that time so we could go to sleep as early as possible.
Even we are poor financially but our parents specially our mother never failed to remind us to be thankful for every blessings that we have.
A song that stirs my heart and soul everytime I hear it
Thank you Lord for your blessing on me is one among the many Christian songs that stirs my heart and soul. This song always reminds me to be thankful for everything, to be thankful even in the simpliest things that we have.
While the world looks upon me,
As I struggle alone
They say I have nothing,
But they are so wrong
In my heart I'm rejoicing,
How I wish they could see
Thank you Lord, for your blessings on me!
Some people bullied me when I was young, some are laughing at me as I sell some Banana que in our Barangay. Some rob my small earnings and makes me go home. Some people will not allow my parents to lend some money of food in their store as they think our parents couldn't pay for it. It's sad to remember those moments but yes they thought we have nothing but they were so wrong because despite of everything we still rejoicing and thanking God for our life.
There's a roof up above me
I've a good place to sleep
There's food on my table
And shoes on my feet
You gave me your love Lord
And a fine family
Thank you Lord, for your blessings on me
Me and my family having a small house where we can be protected from the heat of the sun, from the coldness of the night and from being wet by the rain is a great blessing. Small and big house, simple and illegant is the same house giving us a shelter and a good place to sleep.
Having a food in our table is a great blessings too. Yes it might not be a rice but a free root crops like taro, yam, sweet potatoes and cassava. A free fruits like banana, jackfruit, marang, cacao, guava, mango, cotton fruit, star apple, avocado and passion fruit. A free vegetables like young jack fruit, heart of the banana, chayote and more others. Having those food fresh from the garden is a very good for the health and a great blessings.
Having simple slippers and a simple shoes that being bought from ukay-ukay (pre loved) worth 50.00 or $1 is enough to cover our feet. Having our loving and supportive family to lean on in times of problems is a great things to be thankful for.
I know I'm not wealthy,
And these clothes they're not new
I don't have much money,
But Lord I have you
And that's all that matters,
Though the world may not see
Thank you Lord, for your blessings on me
Yes! I am not wealthy but I am happy. I can wear simple and pre loved clothes from ukay-ukay and I can have it as low as 10.00 - 50.00 or $0.20 - $1. Who would have thought that you can buy simple things for a small amount and yes poor people like us could afford it.
Having God in our life will make us happy and contented. But being contented doesn't mean that you won't strive to make your life more better. God also wants us to improve by His help.
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