Looking Back! Poem by Gold Trybes

I have a lot to be thankful for. Alot to be happy for. It wasn't always like this. I wasn't always the happy kid. I wasn't always the one with the happy smile and greatful smile because of the indelible marks fate had etched on my heart. Many times in the past are times I would long to forget but inevitently, they are the rough times on which I had ridden rough shod on to get to where i am today. Many times now, when i look back, I ask so many questions. Questions no one has an answer to. Today I look at my life and the turn around God has given me. I look at the beautiful wife, kids, a happy home, a beautiful house and many more that God has bestowed me with. I think of how hard I prayed, how long I was stabbed, ridiculed and mocked and how it took many years to finally find my broken rib and I ask how. How Lord am I deserving of these blessings that you so generously give without my input. How Lord do you so generously watered my life with so much blessings in so short a time. How Lord do I even begin to name them one after another, the barrage of blessings you continue to give and again, I ask Lord, how do I thank You for these things. I would have given up. I would have been mocked relentlessly by the few who felt I needed to up my game. Perhaps, it would have taken more time than I bargained for, were you not there for me. I look around me today and I smile. I smile because I am blessed. I am happy because I married my wife. I am blessed because you gave me beautiful kids. I am happy because I have a beautiful home to come to. I am blessed because none of my family member is hampered by sickness or disease. I am favored because of the freedom I have to enjoy the beauty of this life and the fruits of contentment you daily give. Lord, I can talk on and on and it would never be enough to say that I thank You from the bottom of my heart. It could only have been You Lord. I am thankful.