So you know how sometimes hmm actually most of the times, I wonder ‘Am I good enough’, ‘Am I smart enough’, ‘Am I talented enough’, ‘Am I pretty enough’ and stuff. And then other times, I think thoughts like ‘Oh, my life is the absolute worst, why is this happening to me?’. And then once in a while, God gives me a gentle answer in a way that I simply cannot ignore, so am sharing two of those incidents.

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1. A month ago, after shopping with my friends we bought an ice gola (shave ice) just to taste and see how it was. One taste of it and I passed on it because I thought it reminded me of cough syrup. Anyways my friend finished most of it and held the glass with just a little remaining in the glass. We started searching for a dustbin to dispose of it. At that moment, a little girl who was begging walked over to my friend with her hands held out. At first we thought she wanted money but then my friend noticed her looking at the glass in her hand and asked her if she wanted that. The little girl nodded and my friend handed it over to her in shock. We were filled with a combination of compassion and guilt and so we looked for the little girl thinking we would buy her a full gola but couldn’t find her.

After the incident, I personally couldn’t help but feel guilty because there I was who had rejected the drink because I thought it tasted bad and the poor child was happy to have the leftovers.

This incident reminded me of a phrase ‘One man’s trash is another man’s treasure!”. It made me think of how I really can’t let go of anything in my life because it’s not good enough. I mean, think about it, if God started thinking like that about me, I would never ever be worthy of His love. Nothing in my life is what I am worthy of, it is all what God has blessed me with.

So if I take anything in my life for granted and give it up, someone else may realize it’s worth and bear it’s fruit. So value what you have, fight for it as long as it’s in your hands. Once it’s out of your reach, leave it to God to redeem it or release it from your life.

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2. A few weeks ago I noticed this guy in office who wore a scarf around his neck. Now in India, we usually see girls drape scarves over their shoulder but never the guys. So I wondered why he did that, if it was a style statement or something. I even showed him to my friend at work and she was wondering too.

And last week, we saw him again but this time we realized that he did not have an arm and  it looked like he draped the shawl perhaps trying not to make his handicap obvious. I just felt so sad at that moment for that person, and I felt shallow for just forming an opinion and not looking beyond the scarf the first time itself.

I mean I can recollect the times when I have stood in front of the mirror, thinking how much I hated the bulges that I just could not hide, or the unsightly pimple on my face that made me look like I had a nose stud :(.

But seeing this person, I just had to thank God for my body, way far from perfect, but I do have functioning body parts which is something many again do not have.

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I can’t help but think that maybe we need a look into truly bad situations, to value the good stuff in our life. I mean, I can’t change any situation in my life, i can’t change any person in my life but what I can change with His help is how I look at things.

I know that one thing God is teaching me is to be grateful for what I have. Not because I have everything I want but simply because I know I have everything God wants me to have. And God will not spare anything that He wants for me, from my life, if I just let Him be my all.

So no matter what, take a moment to thank God for every good thing in your life, praise Him no matter how bad it looks, because He is in control and He will not let you go. Sharing a wonderful song I heard yesterday after a long time and I couldn’t help but think how apt the lyrics were.

God bless!