Is there such a thing as a child of fortune, a child who is born with an aura of divinity that brings good fortune to his or her parents?
There is a popular belief in Africa that there are children born with special fortune, that as soon as they are born into a family such family begins experiencing transformation in leaps and bounds. This belief or assumption is held strong among my locals, and some can pointedly that since the day they gave birth to a particular child among their children their status started changing for good.
I used to think about this as a mere assumption while growing up in my village, does God gives a special aura of goodness or blessings to some children? Why do parents hold this belief so strong that it's almost a prayer in every home? I find it hard to adsorb this belief as a fact, my justification was that circumstances happen to shape people's lives. As at the time, a person started thinking right and doing the right things life is bound to progress. This I thought has no connection to the birth of a new child into a family. But then, why didn't circumstances happens before the time the child came, can we call that a coincidence? Again why didn't a parent start thinking right and doing the right thing before such a child was born into the family? All these were my thoughts before I became a parent.
I started early in life that at 30yr of age I had already had the number of children that I thought my strength could carry. It wasn't easy for as a father and parent to take care of my wife and kids. We were always having less than we need, and I can barely do anything meaningful financially except I borrow. What this infers is that I was always indebted to one person or the other at any given time. The circle of hardship, suffering, and poverty were the characteristics to describe my life until fortune smile on me from the divine hands of God.
Though we have chosen not to have more children our calculation was defeated when like a dream conception came in. I was stunned while my wife was downcasted, how can we handle this when we barely had enough to meet our needs and now another child on the way. This was a crucial moment in my life. One could be tempted in this case to attempt the unimaginable, but as responsible people, we need to preserve what God has given us. All through the conception period, my thoughts were how possible could I take care of an additional child, but little did I know that a special gift and a fortune is coming into my life.
October 7 will be a date I will live to remember. The day that my last born daughter came into my life. The child I named TREASURE, a child of fortune indeed. Her coming into my life and family brought tremendous change to my family all around. From the very moment she was born, things started falling in order for me, I got an appointment into an established organization for the first time after years of failure. The organization moved us into a decent two-bedroom apartment, whereas we live in two small rooms that serve as a sitting room, bedroom, and kitchen all together before now. My financial status started soaring as though it was all a dream. Everything started working well for me even in places where I have failed before. Every business I have engaged myself in before now always ends up in disappointment plugging me into indebtedness and hopelessness. But today the business which I started that same period my TREASURE was born has grown beyond boundaries. It seems like a dream that within three months of her birth I bought a piece of land and started building my own house. It hasbeen three years since my TREASURE was born, and since then things have continued going well for me from one promotion to the other. There is indeed a child of fortune and my TREASURE Is one.
Happy Birthday to my fortunate child and to my success story.
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