The Gift of God...

Today, I read an e-mail by a friend, that e-mail is about how much a man wants to stay at home to be a woman as he is tired of work. He prayed to God: Dear Lord, I go to work everyday and put in 8 hours while my wife merely stays at home. I want her to know what I go through. So, Please allow her body to switch with mine for a day. Amen. What happen was that, after a day of becoming a wife, he realized that to be a woman even for only one day is not easy at all. With all the chores, the cleaning, the fetching of kids, the preparation of meals and the babysitting are all that women need to do in one day. I shared this email with my colleagues and only two of them replied. Both of them like the e-mail very much and one of them would want to show it to her husband. And obviously, both of them are women. In my on view, I think God created everyone with different personality and characteristics. We are like actors on the stage. Like one of William Shakespeare's famous quotation on Mcbeth: "Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more:" Even though this is a very sad quotation about Mcbeth's life, it is still life and it signifies that life is short. We have to appreciate whatever we have. As we are chosen by God to be woman or to be man, we should live life to the fullest and we should be grateful of what we have now. I went to a mission trip in Chiang Rai, North Thailand during the Hari Raya break and I found that we are so fortunate to be here in Malaysia because people living there will eat and wear whatever that is provided to them as they are very poor. Some of them may not even have the opportunity to study like all of us here. However, they lead a very simple life and they are all very innocent and naive about the world. The worst thing is that, they have never tasted chicken as chicken is expensive for them, they can't afford to even taste it. I was really grateful of what I have now and thank God for providing me with good food and nice clothings. I have the freedom to choose, choose what I want to eat and what I want to wear because God has granted me a lot. Amen.