My greater blessing
11/19/2014 09:30:00 AM
One evening before going home, we were buying McDonalds to bring home when my Tita realized we needed to pass by the gas station and load up. Along the way, we noticed a man with a baby. We see quite a few homeless people around the city yet this time, what we saw was something different. The father was playing with his baby, the baby with nothing on, and trying to have fun out of the nothingness they have. So we decided to buy them food and it was a good coincidence that my Tita has extra baby clothes in the car too.
What’s the point of my story? It is not to brag about that we did. It is to emphasize what I realized after that very incident. I believe that the greater blessing right there was not poured out onto the homeless man and his baby. I think it was poured on to us. You see, we were on our way home. We were supposed to be passers-by. But God has this amazing way of leading us all into something different. In the short span of time that I was handing over the food to the man, the short few seconds that I was giving him the clothes and asking him to put it on his baby, I was able to feel and saw one of the few most genuine gratitude I ever encountered in my life. You know why? Because this is what he was telling me all the time:
“Ang grasya sa Ginoo, Ma’am. Salamat. Bantayan jud mo sa Ginoo mabuntag, magabii. Salamat sa grasya sa Ginoo.” He said these lines repeatedly with teary eyes.
Brothers and sisters, how many times have we experienced hardships in life? And in those hardships, did we ever see how God was working? Most times we feel betrayed and abandoned. We feel like the Lord stopped caring for us. But the truth is, every single time, God is working in us. It’s amazing how this man was able to see God despite his circumstance. They were homeless, he has a baby with no clothing, they have no food, not even a blanket to warm them during the night. But he was able to see the grace of God moving in the simplest things life has to offer them.
I hope we, too, see the grace of God in everything. That whenever we start complaining about the things we don’t have yet, we remember that there are people who doesn’t have anything at all. When we come to a point where we feel empty, may we be reminded that if we have God, we have more than enough.
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