Your Blessings
Whether or not you are a Christian or
not, you do have blessings. Have you
ever thought of that? Wealthy good
people are blessed. They donate to
charities, churches, and people. Yet they
will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven
unless they believe in the Son of God. I
want to share with you the many
blessings of my life. My birth was a
blessing and my sister's. My dad, was
told by the doctor that my dad had a
choice of either his wife or unborn child.
After a short time, he told the doctor that
he wanted both. His prayers were
answered. Then after being told by the
same doctor almost 12 years later, my
sister was just a growth that needed to
be removed. Well that growth was born
and has delivered a few thousand
babies. So, I guess my first earthly
blessings were my mom and dad. This
is to parents. Pass your knowledge
down to you children. It can be art,
crafts, singing, writing, sewing, cooking,
and so many others. Dad taught me
fishing, hunting and electrical. It was the
wrong times for a woman to be an
electrician but I learned a lot. I
remember singing in my room or the
living room. Most of the time it was
classical or opera. As time moved
forward, we went to India to live for
awhile. Dad was constantly teaching us
skills to help us in the future. Mom
would teach us how to prepare food for
the year. It wasn't until my mid thirties
that I started to branch out into singing. I
had already learned the skills of
painting from Mom and high school. I
learned the skills of sewing from my
grandmothers, aunt, mom and high
school. Mother taught me how to be a
semstress. I learned to make women
and mens clothing of all kinds. It came
in handy when I was pregnant with my
first child. I still wanted pretty clothes, so
I designed my own. Then as time went
on it came in handy to make my
children's clothes. Later after I started
singing in Jamborees it came in handy
to take my clothing and convert it into
beautiful garments for stage. My singing
gave me joy and confidence in myself
that I had never known. I had felt like in
my life that I just didn't meet up to the
standards of my siblings. Then as time
moved on my blessing began to bless
others. I had the opportunity to go to
Nashville and probably would have
been a part of the Country Western and
Gospel singing. I chose to stay and raise
a family that has been a wonderful
blessing. I didn't take up my painting
again until mom went to be with Jesus. I
started back from the 70's to was what
was the late 90's. I painted in oils. I
painted people and I also did a few
other spiritual paintings. There were a
lot of family and friends deaths along
with my health that seemed to take
things for me to a hault. Going back to
the blessings, I went to India while I was
in the 6th grade. I have been all the
way around the world. Yes there were
blessings being there. Sometimes
blessings are just what you learn. You
can take those things you learn and
they can turn into blessings that can
grow. In 1998, I read the bible all the
way through in 5 months. I worked and
had a family but the Lord found time for
me to be able to see the world from His
eyes. It was July 4th of that year. Well, I
worked that out for me to finish that
day. Then on July 28, 1998 there was a
vehicle accident with some members of
my family in a head on collision. My
world was then turned upside down.
The Lord was with me every step of the
trail and tribulatons ahead of me. The
other members of the family were
shaken up a bit but we were all alive.
The wreck was bad on me probably the
most. The blessing in this was we all
survived but there were changes in our
lives. The next 2 years my dad helped
with my health and provided for us until
we got some assistance. Then just
before he went to be with Jesus in
heaven the ability to write and create
poems started for me. Dad would share
his writings with people and his poems.
That was such a blessing to learn how
to be creative in that way. After the
wreck, I was taken down pretty hard
and now I was learning how to function
at least at home. It took a couple of
years before I could drive again. Time
was and is the key factor. Wait on the
Lord. Here comes the blessings of
survival. Pancreatitis twice, given the
wrong meds and had a chemical
reaction that hospitalized me for 3
weeks, and in 2013 had 3 strokes. The
3rd one took me down hard. Had to
learn to communicate again with
speech therapy and physical therapy.
This was a difficult time back but that's
when my paintings really got showing
what the Lord had really blessed me
with. My cuz, started this website for me
and it helped me to start many other
websites with his help of course.
Blessings pouring out in my life. Yes, my
children have grown up and have their
families. I've been blessed to help with
the raising of a few of them. There are
many more blessings that I have been
given. I will share more later in stories of
some of the blessings. Tonight all of us
that are still alive we have been
blessed. Look to the sky, there is a
blessing coming for you.