..never get tired of being grateful..

(c) Straight Talk

I've been looking at my clean screen for quite a while. Clean in such a way I can't jump-start an article. My unforgiving duty schedules and the unceasing call of responsibilities robbed my time of something I always love to do: tell a story. And yet, solemn moments drag me back to the corner where I can be halfway between the world of solitude, privacy, peace-and how come these words became so expensive in this technology-driven world.

I lined up in the ATM machine this evening. While waiting for my turn, I've been in a pensive mode I remember one morning I went to the bathroom and realized that I haven't been to the grocery lately. That moment when you needed to put water in the shampoo container and shake it to increase the amount of lather. I'm still lucky I need not to do that in my toothpaste tube. I smile at my own lunacy.
Looking around, I have my own apprehensions. So does everyone else. What if it's already your turn and the ATM machine runs out of money? I survived that "what if".

I don't know how to write this in a more succinct way. Probably because gratefulness has no better way to contain than to let it flow. I know tough times, I know what it is to have nothing, I know how it feels to be empty. By far, I know too, that God has never been an ATM machine that runs out of supply.  He always, always, always provides. That is a redundancy we ought to memorize.

We are all blessed in how God has chosen to bless us. Some of you may have been given a faithful partner, a trusted confidante, a patient mentor, an understanding co-worker, a cheerful friend.
It may not all come in a package we want it to be, but God knows that is what you needed to show you His way.

Never get tired of being grateful. TGIF!