As far back as I can remember,the one prayer point I never fail to say each day is,…“Father Lord, bless me and bless the people around me. Also, bless me so that I can be a blessing to everyone around me”. I say this like an anthem, subconsciously.
I school in the University of Nigeria and every now and then, actually everyday, blind, deaf, dumb, epileptic, critically ill, basically people with different kinds of illnesses walk into our classrooms to solicit for financial aid. It isn’t uncommon to us. We have gotten accustomed to it.
For me, I’ve been on this campus since 2012 and I believe I’ve become familiar with a couple of faces.
Being on campus for this long, I’ve come across some of these people whom I’ve seen before, perhaps in 2015 and they come in and repeat the same stories, atimes with the same photographs (in cases like victims who were set ablaze). This made me wonder if they were making these stories up.
For some time I decided I wouldn’t help the familiar ones and other times I gave reluctantly. I was really skeptical about the whole situation.
Fast forward to a few months ago, I was in deep thought, wondering when God would bless me financially to be able to help others and then a thought was laid in my heart. “Everyday you have more than enough money in your purse to last you the whole day, that extra 500 or 1000naira can put a huge smile on someone’s face”.
It isn’t our duty to decipher if someone is telling us the truth or not. If you are in a position to help, give freely. Give with a cheerful heart.
You want 1 million? Who have you helped with the 1000 you have? Charity, they say, begins at home.
P.S. Home in this context means your immediate surrounding,
Love and light,
Pinkhy
Fastforward a few months later, I went shopping at a supermarket. While at the counter, I saw the minimie chinchin and decided to add a pack to my cart.
An average consumer usually knows what he or she wants but
if you truly loved yourself, you would never hurt another -Buddha
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