What mama didn’t have

To be able to pick up groceries

To order and collect at target right away

A car to drive to get the groceries

Time and money to make the orders

A garage to park the car in

I am counting my blessings. These privileges that my grandma and my mother did not have except the money part. Eating from my mom and grandma’s garden was a whole lot better than selecting fruits and veggies from a supermarket that I can only pray is good and real and will not have a recall. That cannot be replaced by the convineince I have today of someone else picking them up for me.

For space to add my own garden, I am grateful.

To stay in the car with Timothy especially as COVID cases rises, I a grateful.

I thought about my fore parents and howeasy and convinient we have it today we have more household items to help us cook, prepare and clean. I don’t have to go to a river to wash or a laundromat. I can microwave precooked meals. I don’t have to heat an iron on a stove top.

Yet I also thought of the downside. Going to the river, I would meet neighbors and community members. The help, wisdom conversations and songs help the time pass by quickly and create strong social circles.

Having to make a list then walk through the isles cost more time but you get to stretch and exercise and look at labels and feel the fruits you selected.

Seems like ‘young people nowadays’ are not mentally tough as their great grandparents. They give up easily and get offended faster. Could it be that life came too easy, too microwaveable! Too instant that no mental stamina, trust, patience, sweat and community help were developed! In other to withstand the hard winds that life blows at times, one must be rooted and have solid foundations.

Instead of googling, maybe pray and ask God to guide you more. Instead of Pinterest and Instagram, get creative and come up with your own recipes and ideas and be pleased with your hard work and effort without a ‘like or heart’s from strangers.