Time After Time.

Imagine if life contains two buttons: “Help” and “Thank You”.

The “Help” button contains services where we could pour our heart out, ask for help, get help (may not be direct and immediate), is completely confidential and has an unlimited amount of uses.

The “Thank You” button has similar features, but instead of asking for help, we give thanks for anything we want. This too, is completely confidential, and has unlimited amount of uses.

Now as human beings, we are never truly satisfied with what we have, and always seek out to get more, so naturally we abuse the “Help” button. But like a bank, we cannot expect to continuously take out money without putting some in. But for some reason, we expect life to do that. Actually no, we expect God to make us all rich and beautiful, and to live the simplest of lives, and when things don’t go as planned we become upset and depressed and blame God. And when things are going smooth, and there are no bumps in our roads, we forget God, and think how much of a life I have made, how successful I have become, how all those A’s I’m receiving are from my hard work, and the “Thank You” button sits there with dust piling on top due to its lack of use.

The reality is many of us only remember God in our times of need and desperation; when we face struggles, or when we want something immensely. Of course, by all means He is the one we should turn to, but how many of us go back to God after our struggle to thank Him? To take a single moment out of our crazy hectic schedules and to ask for nothing but say Alhamdulilah (praise to Allah). Life may be simple to some, and difficult to others, but regardless of our situation-we have plenty to be thankful for.

The fact that you are reading this means you have eyes. Imagine walking home from school and just as you’re about to cross a very busy street, God takes away your eyesight for a minute of your entire life-that’s it, a minute! Now tell me how easy and successful you’ll be crossing the street without God’s help. Your breath. What happens if God decided to take away 2 minutes of your breathing? Dizziness, you may faint, and is potentially life threatening, you think you got that on your own?

We may be able to name 10 problems in our lives that upset us; go to God for guidance.

But we have an infinite amount of blessings that make us smile; so go to God and thank Him. 🙂