I came to realize as I have gotten older all the great lessons I have learned in life did not come from any book I have ever read. In fact one of these lessons I am about to share came from the wisdom of my great grandmother. This countless act of faith and knowledge was never printed in any book but; has been imprinted in my life forever.
This lesson of life I came to learn from my great grandmother for she was the most humble of all people you would have ever met in your life. Let's put it this way if she had only one dime and she saw you needed it more (whether you were family, a stranger, or even a friend) she would have given that dime to you first before she would have kept it for herself. One of the greatest lessons she lesson she taught me was when I was thirteen years old, it was one that I have held close to my heart since the first time she had told it to me, and I had came to realize how many great lessons I could only learn from her real life experiences.
She was born in December of 1900 and she had been through a lot of what we read in the history books but; it was in the great depression she learned the greatest lesson she would ever need for the rest of her natural born life. She had told me that during the depression when she saw all those people jumping out of windows, committing suicide, and the craziness that was taking place amongst the people in the streets was extremely horrifying! She ran and ran until she reached the nearest bench and sat down for a moment to think really hard about her life. She admitted that she too wanted to die for all was lost and the economy was in a very dark hole. “How would she ever survive all of this?” She then started to think very hard and one of her first thoughts were: “She was poor as they came and really didn't have anything of value to lose” and then her next thought was: “if she killed herself what was she really dieing for?”
Then it came to her all at once and that was this: “If she had nothing in the first place (because she was poor), then she killed herself over nothing and couldn't keep or even have should she have died “THEN” she was truly dieing for nothing. So, my great grandmother got up from that bench and decided she was going to live her life for all she did have and that was the love she had for herself!”
How many times do we give up or even cry over what we think we are losing and knowing it was never ours in the first place. If you can't take it with you when you die then it truly wasn't yours at all. We all must start living our life for the greatest gift we have and that is life itself and stop ourselves from dying over nothing! Life is precious and God's gift to us is all that we have around us everyday!
Also, always remember that some of the greatest lessons you will ever learn come from those who lived it and are still around to tell of it! So listen to them for their stories aren't in any book you will ever read. Their stories are the ones that have lived and passed on to you!
