BE GRATEFUL

Recently Aunty Yetunde (Mrs. Ayanleye) led a powerful praise and worship at church but the preamble was centred on reasons why one have to be grateful for everything. Due to her profession she gave a lot of illustrations on why some certain things should not be taken for granted, according to her, one should be grateful for the ability to go to the toilet and do the needful without any help from any machine or any person around. Those words hit me. Like there are a lot of things we humanly feel we are entitled to and just take them for granted. But that is not all.

Just when I thought I have heard it all, Mr Akinpelu, one of my senior colleagues at work made mention of something I have never heard of and take cognisance of before. While leading the fellowship on Friday, he was encouraging the students to be grateful for even the grace and ability to speak for free.

Now let us come to think of it, in the world of social media, you cannot communicate without paying for it (data & airtime), now imagine if we are meant to pay for every words that comes out of our mouth, just imagine how much we will be paying per minute, but then it is free of charge! It may sound impossible but think about it.  The air that we breathe as well, free of charge, locomotion and so on, all free of charge. *BE GRATEFUL*

So instead of lamenting about what has not been done, why not think of things that have been done and be grateful for them. Remember, you don't know the value of what you have until you have it no more.

As you go about your activities this week and beyond, be grateful to God for EVERYTHING. Shun comparison and focus on the things that have been done for you in anticipation of things what will be done (faith) Be grateful!

Have a nice week ahead.

Oluwasola Abiola Elisha - ABSOL, is a writer, PR, MC, Drummer among others.
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