What I am thankful for…

God is so great, and I am so grateful for the many blessings He showers all over me. These blessings are too great to mention as they overwhelm me. For the first time in my life, I have managed to highlight the areas of my life considered central to my development.

Life

First of all, my life has been a journey. A journey is full of adventure and a lot of battles and victories. It is this life that came into the lives of the many. Many that I crossed paths with, to most a blessing, to some a curse, depending on how we related. I do believe I am a lesson in other people’s lives, both a good lesson and a negative lesson. I love the fact that I am not perfect, but God loves me still.

Family

My family is my world, starting with the family that raised me to the family that I head, they see me as an introvert, and they are right. There is a family responsible for bringing me up, raising me to become the man that I am today. The family that raised me had more love for me than money and food to spoil me with. And the love was sufficient, more than enough to bring up this man, who later met another human being raised by another family, a woman I found to start a family with. The family I head has become a part of the family that raised me and also part of the big family that raised my wife. None of these families is perfect. It is for that reason that I love them, and I am so very grateful to God.

Friends

I do not have too many friends. The few that I call friends are a huge blessing. A blessing in that they are a network of progress. I am surrounded by friends who challenge me to grow, they do this unknowingly, and they are also my stress killers. Never a dull moment with some of them. And all my friends will describe me as an extrovert, and they are very right. Our friendship has reached a brotherhood state, and we enjoy mutual respect. I have such friends that we can go a year or two without communicating due to the distance between, but the day one makes a call, we talk like we talk every day. No one accuses the other of anything because we know our friendship is not perfect, but we love it that way.

Work

For me to maintain a good relationship with myself, my family, and friends, I need to put food on the table, pay bills, rentals, and grow my assets. God gave me a job. I grew up without a single imagination, will work in a bank. And God gave me this job, to work in a bank, I remember at college when a lecturer was using me as an example of a person who cannot work as a bank clerk because of my looks, and it turned out he was opening that door for me. I actually started as a bank clerk and today am at the back office running the affairs of my co-workers in risk and compliance. I also thank my family and friends, whose prayers God answered.

Challenges

I would not have made it this far without challenges. I am so thankful to God for all the challenges I have encountered in my journey through life. It cannot be enjoyed without a few battles here and there, some small, some big, but victory is what I work towards. There have been times when I see no hope because the challenge seems too big for me, but I know that my God is too big for my problems. I just surrender to Him. And I have come to learn that with every challenge that I overcome, life becomes better for me. And the bigger the challenge, the better the change in my life.