What do we have?

"Do not lament for what we do not have. For what we lack, it will be provided in what we already have... Only if we look deeper, harder and learn to appreciate things more."

Often, we look really deep at what we do not have, crave for something that others have, long and desire for things which we do not even know whether we need or not. When we look into our lives, we cannot see what we already have.

Today I was servicing 2 patients. 1 never seemed to have enough. 1 was so thankful even with the little that we are offering to help him with. Irony of it all is that the one who was thankful was very much in lack. Yet, the one who never seemed to have enough seemed to have everything.

I remembered the story of this man who was hanging on to his life at this cliff. He prayed and prayed for God to rescue him. After awhile, this helicopter came. He rejected the help and said "God will rescue me!" Another helicopter came and he rejected believing that God will rescue him. Yet another helicopter came and again he rejected. He finally died and went to heaven. Before God he asked "God God! I trusted in you! Why didn't you save my life?" God answered "I did.. I sent 3 helicopters to rescue you.."

I kinda thought that often we are so focused on seeing results the way we want that we missed out that there are other perspective to it. Often we missed out on the things that we already have and forgot to appreciate them.