Grateful that I get to enjoy life’s blessings

Last Friday, three friends and workmates, and I, went to visit another workmate who had just given birth the previous week. After the visit, as we got back to work, Brenda, Grace and Sarah gave me Shs15,000 for the fuel I had used to transport us there and back.

I cannot tell you how chuffed I was. Let me tell you why. I had offered to drive us there and back. I planned it out, knowing how much fuel I would need. I did not ask to be given this money.
After all, we were friends going to visit and congratulate another friend. Spending on fuel was therefore part of my planned expenditure. So when these three ladies gave me the money, I found it indeed kind.

We all know that there are many people who borrow money and never pay it back, who get you to do them huge errands for them and never return the favour. So to have friends who think ahead and contribute to the fuel in the manner these ladies did, is a wonderful thing.

I was also happy that despite our schedules which all looked busy with meetings, pages to lay out, stories to edit and other personal things, we found the time to go and sit down with Sheila and let her tell us the story of her daughter’s birth (I never tire of these stories!).

We know how everyone is chasing the next few shillings, trying to cut deals, studying for a degree and doing many other things. It looks like time for sitting back and doing something that is not work, is hard to find.

But it is during such times that we must find it. Sheila’s little one came two days before the baby shower; as such we had not had the chance to share all these “scary” experiences, advice and gifts. But it is never too late for things as these, which is why we trooped with them to Sheila’s place. And have a good time we did, as we tried to share tips on how to bathe a newborn baby and when to get the time to sleep.

Perhaps the most important thing that we all must be grateful for is life. I am grateful for the life I have and the ability to enjoy the things I do.

I am thankful for the lives of the Brenda, Grace and Sarah, who I have known for a good while now, lives that are special and which remind me to not think of myself as too old. But right now, I am most grateful for the lives of Sheila and her baby as they both had a close shave and were saved by God through the insistence of a friendly and helpful doctor.

We should not take these things for granted; we should instead count ourselves blessed and live lives worthy of that which the maker called us to.

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