How to put food on the table is the question that crosses the minds of all breadwinners. If you are a single parent of two little infants, this thought will plague you on most mornings.
The thought will hover around your mind, like a pesty little housefly over your dining table, or a buzzing mosquito around your ears at night. "Where am I going to find that milk to feed my child, where am I going to find the cash to buy my son some decent clothes, how am I going to support my aged parents when I have so little to give, how am I going to pay for my college fees?
These and some of the more pressing questions on daily expenses and economic survival besiege our minds at least five times a day, everyday, every week, every month of every year.
Well, for one thing - don't ever give up hope. If you are determined to work hard, be honest, be good even if others are taking the easy way out, someone somewhere is going to come to your aid. And don't forget to pray as well. You know you need every ounce of help here on earth and in heaven. But don't you ever give up hope.
Good, hardworking folks may eat less than those big shots living on the other side of town where they actually gorge themselves half to death with good, cholesterol-laden food every two hours. But honest-to-goodness people also remember to count their blessings in their lives. They have humility injected into their system and they are usually more willing to help others who share their own predicament.
If you hold three little jobs, then you will have enough to feed yourself and others who depend on you. Those little ones who depend on you, will follow your example of being hardworking, never to feel sorry for yourself and be true to all the goodness that is always been part of you.
Ask those successful people who come from very humble backgrounds. Chances are they will recall their dads and mums working from sun up to sun down to put clothes on their backs and good food on their tables. And then they proceed to thank God for all the things that they need and have.
People have a natural tendemcy to learn more and remember more when the chips are down. Children who have seen how their mums toiled in the kitchen, in the backyard, washing the neighbour's clothes to earn pocket money, will tell you how much they love their mothers when their mums rather starve than to see them go hungry.
In this modern age, there is one motherlode that awaits hardworking, willing workers to go at it relentlessly, never giving up, or ever giving up hope. There are lots of opportunities on the Internet. If you keep your eyes and mind open, you will find these little gems lying beneath the ground you walk on.
That Ray of Hope
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