The greatest gift.
A gift or a present is an item given to someone without the expectation of payment or anything in return.
Just like most of you, I love gifts alot. Gifts that comes as a surprise, without me expecting it; melts my heart big time. Infact gifts is just one amongst my list of love languages.
People give gifts to others as a means of displaying emotions. The very obvious emotion I see here is "love." When you love someone, you'll give the person gifts; be it in celebration of the person's birthday, marriage, childbirth, friendship...just about anything. But we gift them all these out of love, yes love, pure love.
We give gifts to people we love and care for.
Sighs...
Well that's not what I'm here for, having talked about all these gifts, let's now move to the main point.
The greatest gift.
Are they clothes, bags, houses, chocolates, vacations, dream jobs, recharge cards, phones, money, shoes...? you name them
There's surely a gift that surpasses all these aforementioned. A gift that can't be wrapped in a box, but still yet, this gift isn't really treasured by all. Infact some of us feel entitled to this gift, we feel it's our right, forgetting that the owner of the gift can still withdraw it from our care.
Forgetting that the enemy of this gift is actually looking for means to steal away this great gift from us.
The gift that surpasses all other gifts, without this gift we can't receive other gifts. We can't wear those clothes, those shoes, we can't go on those vacations, have that dream job, we can't even receive wishes for our birthday, talk more of wedding or childbirth, we can't even see, breathe, hear or smell. This gift is the greatest amongst all others.
None other than the "gift of life." This is not child's play, this is not a game, there's nothing like a second life.
Sleeping and waking up isn't child's play.
Going outside your house and coming back home isn't even close to a joke.
Infact being inside your house is also not a joke.
Sighs...then you travelled out and arrived back home safely.
You went to a bubbling and crowded market place.
Or wait...you went to the bank.
You were walking on the road, be it tarred or untarred.
You crossed to the next side of the road.
You boarded a public bus or you drove your car.
The issue here is that you did all these and more, yet you're alive, Hale and hearty. Wait...even if you aren't even fully healthy, atleast you're alive right?
When there's life, there's hope.
Appreciate yourself more, be greatfull for the grace to sleep and wake up. I don't know about you, but I hear of different scenarios of death everyday. Just this previous Sunday, some bandits raided a church and killed the members of that church. I also went to church just like those people.
Even if you don't have enough, just remember your life is worth being thankful for.
You lost your job, you lost your spouse, you lost a child, you had a miscarriage, you lost that Visa, you lost that great employment, you lost your money, you lost your property...always remember; you lost all these but you didn't loose your life.
So be grateful for living, a living body has more hope than a dead body. You can see, talk, walk, run, jump, hear, smell...common smile. You've got a life!!!.
I've missed this platform, but then you can't give what you don't have, how do I go on tipping others with such an amount in my wallet, I honestly hope Rusty comes back, pending that time; bare with me if I don't visit your articles frequently anymore. (Thing is that I'm not too good at just commenting and not upvoting).
Till we meet hopefully again in my next article and in yours.
Thanks for reading.
Sometimes it is not the gift itself but the truthness of other part. If you think that value of gift regardless of behavior of other part then it is wrong thinking then in this case the other part becomes as a bank account. If you think that thruthness of other part regardless the value of gift then it is true relationship.