Things To Be Thankful For: The Gift of Life.

Saturday 8 October 2011

The Gift of Life.

Life can be hard for most of us. We will certainly have problems from time to time, bereavements, illnesses, money troubles, arguments with friends and enemies and work worries to name a few.Those who suffer severe depression often think that suicide is the only, and most logical way out, while their friends will quite rightly tell them that it is not as bad as they think and they have much to live for.

Steve Jobs had much to live for and had fame, more money than a person could possibly spend in a life time as well as having a loving family. But he is no longer alive. He is no longer with us on earth, his life is over while we you are alive at this moment. We are now better off than even the wealthy Steve Jobs. We are better off all the deceased that ever lived-better off than Shakespeare, Henry the eighth, Plato, Columbus, Einstein, Churchill, Buddha, Gandhi, Dickens. We are ALIVE! Hallelujah:We can therefore be thankful that we are alive today and that God has a definite purpose for our life.

Let us not therefore waste it on mediocrity and pray that the will of the maker of all will be done in our life!

Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in my life today as it is in Heaven.

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Gracias

In his book entitled “Gracias,” Henri Nouwen talks about his experience in Peru and Bolivia, he writes: "The title of this (book) summarizes what I found, learned, and heard. The word that I kept hearing, wherever I went, was: Gracias! It sounded like the refrain from a long ballad of events. Gracias a usted, gracias a Dios, muchas gracias––thank you, thanks be to God, many thanks! I saw thousands of poor and hungry children, I met many young men and women without money, a job, or a decent place to live. I spent long hours with sick, elderly people, and I witnessed more misery and pain than ever before in my life. But, in the midst of it all, that word lifted me again and again to a new realm of seeing and hearing: 'Gracias! Thanks!”

"In many of the families I visited nothing was certain, nothing predictable, nothing totally safe. Maybe there would be food tomorrow, maybe there would be work tomorrow, maybe there would be peace tomorrow. Maybe, maybe not. But whatever is given––money, food, work, a handshake, a smile, a good word, or an embrace––is a reason to rejoice and say gracias. What I claim as a right, my friends in Bolivia and Peru received as a gift; what is obvious to me was a joyful surprise to them; what I take for granted, they celebrate in thanksgiving; what for me goes by unnoticed became for them a new occasion to say thanks.”

"And slowly I learned. I learned what I must have forgotten somewhere in my busy, well-planned, and very "useful" life. I learned that everything that is, is freely given by the God of love. All is grace. Light and water, shelter and food, work and free time, children, parents and grandparents, birth and death––it is all given to us. Why? So that we can say gracias, thanks: thanks to God, thanks to each other, thanks to all and everyone.”