was reading this once again. then i thought about my dad. oh i won’t say he’s great and all that. he’s still human and he has his flaws. for one thing, he drinks. and smokes. not that i particularly minded but still… for his health’s sake i wish he’d stop.
my dad’s a chef. or rather, was a chef. by that i meant he used to work in restaurents and hotels. now? not too sure. been laid off due to politics in his workplace last year. since then, most of his jobs were temporary affairs. but strange as it may seem, even though those jobs of his were just temporary ones, his hours were like those hours at the hotels and restaurants. he’ll leave home at 8 or 9.30am. then often, he’ll only be home by 12mn.
when i was younger, i rarely see him at all unless he has off days or i’m absent from school. for the whole of last april however, he was home for the entire month while waiting for job offers. i’ve been praying for financial breakthroughs. with both my parents working, we were financially stable. i mean, come on. we’re four brothers with me being the eldest and the youngest in primary 4 (equivalent of elementary grade 4 for those who are overseas). i won’t say we’re starving, but of course who won’t sometimes yearn for that playstation 2 or that latest computer?
on the whole, we’re blessed. but after my dad got laid off? things are getting better now. God’s grace. no other explanations. oh yes. my dad’s still on the temporary job. which brings me to my original musings. it’s now 45mins past 12mn. i waited up for my dad. had supper with him. to some it may be no big deal. maybe my dad don’t feel a thing. but, there was a sort of connection. i just love my dad.
heh. wonder why i am posting these. i’m not the sort to speak about family matters in this way. heck. i guess this is the first time i’ve sort of openly declare that yea, going through a patch of financial hardship. there’s all the bills to pay, school fees for 4 kids and worse, only 1 spouse have proper job securities. (my mum’s a medical lab tech incharge of a lab in a polyclinic here…)
it’s really by God’s grace that all the bills and school fees are paid. Heavenly Father, i thank You for your provisions.
Matthew 6: 25-34 (New International Version)
25) “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
26) Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27) Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?28) “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
29) Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
30) If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31) So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32) For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33) But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
34) Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.