Loving Everything You Choose

Written by Zhan Jing Ye -- Taiwan Province (Manila)

If I were a young mother, and would have a baby, lovely. Every day my life would include looking after my child carefully, doing a lot of work -- cleaning, going shopping, and cooking. Waiting for my husband, I would prepare a delicious meal, as he would have worked hard for the family. Though our life were full of toil, we would be happy and content.

I think that I would love my baby, like myself and love my husband, too; perhaps more than our child and I. On fine days, we would take walks outside, and go to the park. Sometimes, we would see our parents together.

Maybe my like would be like my description, if I were married. However, I chose to follow Jesus, living a single life. He called me from thousands of people. Therefore, I gave up many possibilities and sought for hisfootprints.

I left my hometown, and went to the city. Later, I left my mother country again. At last, I came to the Philippines . With the Lord's help, I had a good trip. When I looked at my previous life, the past is gone and seems static. Now, I am far from my family members and friends; sometimes it seems as if I have nothing.

But, I love my life in the present, poor as it is. In fact, you are the richest when you are the poorest. I suppose, even in a poor house, you may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, as long as your heart and soul are rich. It is equally, that the Lord gives to everyone.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thought, as in a palace.

Do not receive and own more things, whether clothes or friends. You have all which is enough now for yourself. Turn the old, return to them. You will find you are a rich person. To know the Lord, is a beginning of wisdom. He can change your life and mind. Follow him, please! Believing in and depending on him and never return.