Count Our Blessings

I'm such a blessed child. Being adopted from China was my very first blessing. Then slowly, I start to see things around me that makes me happy. Now, what to me is a blessing is getting to know God, not being the kind that easily fall ill, the ability to reach out to others. There are many many more...to many that I'm not able to recall all of them right now. Watching everyone around me, I just feel so blessed. Some of them are poor or they are abnormal or they don't have bright future...(the list goes on) It's such a great feeling to have all that others can't have. Though I may not be the richest or healthiest, but my life is great. People who are too rich tend to worry a lot. What's the whole point of living when you can have anything.

Poor people lead simple yet happy life. Watching the president's star charity show, I feel another sense of blessing. Children of my age or even younger go through so much difficulties. I can't imagine if I was born abnornal. I'll have to suffer so much and the people around me would have to care for me. I would be such a burden to everyone.

A few days ago, after reading Our Daily Bread, I was thinking what I could do to help handicaps or people who have difficulty doing things. It said in the ODB that when we hear or see someone who is suffering, we are more interested in the details of what, why, when, and where than we are about how we can help. Then the next few days, I found myself showing acts of kindness. It must have been God's holy spirit that was telling/reminding me about that short but meaningful passage. I think back, and find myself doing all these without myself realising that I did it. It just happened so naturally. It could also be that I was trained since young to be kind to others. Little did I know that it would continue to grow in me that even the smallest of the smallest, I am there beside whoever that person is to help him/her.

There are so many things to thank God for. He has blessed me with so much, yet I sometimes take advantage of it or either I will ask for more. Sometimes when the things we ask from God we do not receive, we will get impatient and keep begging for it. But do you know that he is faithful, and will provide you with all that you need when the right time arrives. His gifts are on the way to you. All you need to do is just be patient and wait for that gift to arrive.