We can still be grateful...."Irregardless"

Whoa!!!! I just used a "Uhuru" word right there. I mean, I know it's an English word - of course, unstandard. President Kenyatta uses it a lot...irregardless; someone say hi to the president. Alright, peeps, that's beside the point. I wanna talk about something else - something like, we can still be grateful even now.

Who isn't scared by how uncertain everything is? How you have no idea how tomorrow will look like, whether you will be healthy or not or even alive. Now, that's really scary. It feels like the entire globe is on some sort of break; things are not moving, it's not business as usual. Well, it's such a time that I would like to remind us about being grateful. Of course, it doesn't make sense. Hey, aah, I know that already. Just hear me out. 

Sometimes, I get these urges to just kneel down and pray and many of those times I don't even know what I should pray about. So, today, sometimes happened and as I knelt down, I started thanking God in an unusual way that surprised me. I am healthy; that means every organ in me is working just as it's designed to. My heart, liver, kidneys, blood vessels, my brain, my sensory organs...add all the body parts: all working perfectly well. Sounds strange, right? That I can thank God for how perfect my body organs are working. I see that as you - strange. But, think for a moment, how many times do we take that for granted? It's normal to wake up and be okay, right? No, it's not. Look, that's exactly my point, that regardless of how terrible the times are, you still have a reason to be grateful.

You have the basic things that you need and probably a little more. That is enough to be grateful for. That you are healthy and not dead (I know how that sounds) is a reason to be grateful. Then I went further to think that, well if I am here, now, God still wants something with me. He has a reason for why you are here. I am just helping you to clutch the smallest of reasons to find meaning. If you are like me that believes in a grander plan then you know it's not over and as hopeless as the situation looks, dig a little deeper and you will find a reason to be grateful.

We all don't understand why what is happening is happening but we can remain hopeful that tomorrow awaits and that God will take care of it - because He holds it. We can begin with being grateful that we are and we have all we have, as little as it is; as much as it is; as troubled as we are; as scary as it can get; as uncertain as tomorrow always is, we can be grateful. When we are grateful, we build contentment and contentment builds peace. When we find peace in living today, regardless of how it is, then we can build hope to see tomorrow. And leaving tomorrow to the owner, the peace we have, we can live today to the fullest. 

I am grateful. Be grateful