I know I’ve not been writing as much as I use to but I've
been busy so do bare with me. In the wake of my absence from blogging so many
wonderful things happened. As a matter of fact, it is because of these
wonderful things that I got the time to reflect on life in general. After much denial
and debates with my friends (God bless their sweet souls) they figured its time
I started writing about more positive things and less of the agro stuff. Having
ears on my head and my heart I took this advice to heart. I am not totally
ditching the juicer topics; however, I will try to balance the blog posts from
now on. With that said, today I am going to touch on the issue of
APPRECIATION.
What is appreciation?
I am not one shy of showing emotion and appreciation. I
try to tell my friends and family how much I appreciate them because every day
we have is borrowed. As human beings, it is in our nature to take certain
things for granted like friends, family, a good education, a good lady/man etc.
We are so wrapped up in overlooking the people we care about, we forget to tell
them how much they mean to us because we assume they know we do.
Assumptions can be pretty dangerous, and you don’t
want to live a life of regret. How often do tell the people you care about that
you appreciate them, or how often do you pray and thank the Lord your God for a
new day? I mean we don’t just miraculously wake ourselves up without the grace
of a greater being. Do you even take the time to thank him for always holding
your hand in the darkest hours of your life? Growing up I always use to wonder
why our parents become so religious the older they got. They are always
reminding you to have the presence of God in your life and go to church. In fact,
I even use to mock the fact that only disappointed people went to church, boy
was I so wrong.
A good friend of mine once told me, you can not want
to succeed in life and not be anchored in the grace and guidance of God. At the
time I had actually laughed it off and said whatever. However, the older I get,
the more I've come to appreciate the institution that is religion. In this
human life, there is only so much that your parents, family and friends can do
for you. It is in this space that need to seek God, because where all else
fails, God will still be the last man standing by your side and telling you all
will be well. This is the space in which our parents place us when we venture
out into to the world without them. Every time I went home my mom would fuss
about my lack of religions grounding and I would tell her to chill and every time
I gave her that answer she would reply “my dear owapumbwa kalunga mongalemweno
yoye, Tameka uutale hoyikongeleka” (which translates into, My dear, you need
God in your life please start going to church) and I’d reply soon mom, soon.
When I called her to talk about anything that was
bothering me, she would always tell me to pray. Its only when I started taking her
advice to heart that I finally came to appreciate why she felt the need for me
to find God because only then could I appreciate him and his teaches to make me
realize that all the things I considered to be problems were actually not
especially if I prayed about them.
*proudfriend:-)
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