Overvalue what you are!

“Too many people overvalue what they are and undervalue what they are not”
Malcolm S. Forbes


Do you feel that you are not beautiful even if you are?
Do you feel that you are beautiful even if you are not?
Do you feel that you are rich even if you are not?
Do you feel that you are poor even if you are filled with God's blessing?
Do you feel that you are dull even if you are not?
Do you feel that you are intelligent even if you are not?
I know some readers will be offended in this entry but as what I have said in the note, do not get offended by this....
Some people are thinking like this. I am going to mention no name.
I have a neighbor, not my friend, who hates me very much. I do not know what makes her feel that way.
Since childhood years, we always keep on quarrelling but I assure you that I am not the one who started the fight. In loss my patience every time she quarrels me, so I always fight with her.
Now that we are old enough to determine what is good and what is bad, she still hates me very much. I think she envies me because I have passed in UP, a school that gives quality education poor and deserving students, and knowing that the said school gives a good training to students. Because of that, she always does something that will make me feel envious with her. She always fixes her self (she feels that she is very beautiful even if she is not) and she always say to it that she meets me everywhere I go. And when that happens, she always snubs me. But, humbly, I always bow my head to show that I am still down to earth because I am, hoping that she will change someday.
Every time I study my lesson in her best friend’s house (we have electricity therefore we do not have lights so that is why I study there), She is also there. She often pretends that she is studying even if she is not. She brings with her a notebook, while holding it, she keeps on chatting with her best friends.
She also buys expensive things that are not very important only to make me fell envy. And her parents are working hard for her to have that money in her hands. And when she have projects to be done or need, she approaches me and borrows that something to me. I always refuse to let her borrow because she always depends on me. Where is the money used to buy those expensive things? Instead of buying those stuffs, she should buy references like dictionaries, books, encyclopedias and other materials needed for her projects.
Anyway, I am still hoping that someday she will change her attitude completely.
Back to the questions, I know some second years that said that they are not beautiful but, in fact, they are. If you will ask them, they will say that they are ugly, for sure.
One student also, feels that she is poor but she is filled with God’s blessing. She is not counting the blessings that God is giving to her. Even me, I admit it. I felt the same but I have already reflected.
A Sophie, in Benton, keeps on saying that she is dull because her relatives push her to believe it. They are not satisfied with her grades especially in math. ”You are an honor student, then why do you have low grades in Math?”. They always say that line but she understands them so she will say not a word. They want her to have a better future. For your information, she is very intelligent. She also helps those who have problems especially love problems. We sometimes depend on her in hard lessons and she tutors us also. She is always helping others so that is why she has lots of friends.

You are not an accident

I am your creator.You were in my care even before you were born.

(Isaiah 44:2)

Are you born with lacking parts of your body?Are you born without arms and legs?I remembered when I attended a seminar the pastor showed to us a video clip from Florida.In the video clip was a man without arms and legs. His name is Ned.(I don't know his family name )Despite of his condition, he did not accuse God.He even praised Him because He made him an instrument to let other people realize that they are luckier than him because they are born with complete parts of their body yet they feel that they are incomplete.It may be because they have no material things like money or they may have hard problems which they cannot solve in their own way.Amazingly, Ned, without arms and legs, have traveled around the world ! It is because he preaches the word of God in ever nation, race and people he meets.He lives alone but happily in his own house in Florida.He had amazed man people including those people who are present in the seminar.Like Ned,you are not an accident.your birth was no mistake or misshape, and your life is in fluke of nature. Therefore, Ned birth was not a mistake.Your parents may not have planned you but God did. Unluckily some children are born because his or her mother was raped by a bastard. But has God planned that ? I guess not! But god stated in the bible that he planned us! The bible is the word of God and that book is true.He planned you, He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact he expected it.He also precised every part of your body.God has planned every part of Ned's body but I know his parents made a mistake when he is still in her mother's womb. Maybe his mother took some pills or had been sick so he was affected.God deliberately chose your race, the color of or skin (if you are darker ,do not worry because your possibility of having skin cancer is less because you have more melanin in you that protects you fro he harmful rays f the sun), your hair,and every feature including the nose . but these days , I always see some uncontested people dyeing their hair and some retouched their nose(especially actresses)God custom-made your body just the way he wanted it.Are you not amazed of who you are?God has made you. Don't you like it ?The perfect and the unstained one made us !we should be thankful about it!Now,you should be contented of what you have and what you are?God has also determined the natural characteristics you would possess and the uniqueness of your personality. Well, I am proud to say that I have good voice(whatever!). I also have some talents in me that I have not discovered yet. This grading, in our P.E. class,our main lesson is about badminton . Who knows?Like hazel, who is a good badminton player, I can be a good badminton player too Who knows? Like Macky, I can be an SC officer?.........Laugh Out Loud....joke only.....don't you ever believe ...Anyway, I will try my best o let other people know that I am lucky.

Information taken from :

-ate Maribel's hand out

-bible

(Isaiah 44:2)

(Psalm 138:8)

(Psalm 139:15)