Life is precious; no doubt about it but the way we value life differs from one individual to another. Those that are living on fast lanes have little or no regard for life. They are so engrossed in crime that they careless if they should suddenly cease to live.
My concept about life prior to my becoming a father was a kind of not seeing it beyond our existence as human beings. Then I watched with delight as my daughter grew inside my wife’s womb and I became marveled at how life is formed and I appreciate it more. It probably beats my human mind how my night of passion with my wife produced a life that I can’t explain how it was formed. The fruit is in clear disparity to the seed planted. And I don’t even know which of the seeds produced the fruit. Let’s leave aside whatever science says about this.
Then I appreciate my Creator for his ingenuity. There was a particular night when my daughter was still in the womb and she was kicking so vigorously that I was scared she was going to burst her mother’s womb open.
When she finally joined us and started to grow it became a daily delight watching her crawling and falling and as she try to learn one thing or the other. Then she constantly led me to imagine what I had probably done at her age.
If you want to see the beauties of life then watch the growth of a healthy and cheerful child. Not only would you appreciate life, you would appreciate your parents more and would be ready to forgive them in whatever way they might have offended you. We are all indebted to our parents and so also are our children and the circle goes on. This is one reason we must ensure our parents are well taken care of and we must ensure we receive their blessing always.
How can we forget about our parents? No matter differences we might share with them on certain issues of life, for the fact that we are alive today, that they didn’t abort our pregnancies; that they went through numerous sleepless nights in order that we might live affirm the fact that they love us irrespective of their shortcomings as human beings.
God gave us life and used our parents as the vehicle that drove us down here. Must we not appreciate the giver and the medium?
When my daughter needs something she comes to me and ahs no doubt in her little mind that I would grant her request. She would insist and persist until I give her what she asks for. Then I realized that God is truly our father and if we can faithfully go to Him as His children, He would grant us our requests. However, just as we examine the requests of our children and ensure that what they want are not to their detriment; so also God does for us when we ask Him for any thing.
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