"...give us our daily bread..."

What does it mean to be happy? What does it mean to live life to the fullest? Why worth get up in the morning? 

A couple of days ago, I ran into internet scammers. When I realized that I had only a handful of coins, I asked myself: What does it mean to be poor?

Fortunately, life has taught me that "life does not depend on abundance of possessions" /Lk 12:15/

I automatically started creating an emergency scenario. How should we survive? ... 

There is no proper emergency scenario without trust in God. This is not a kind of resignation, recklessness.
 Humanly, officially, I did what I had to do, but I can't change the facts. I have to entrust myself to God's mercy and, of course, learn from the incident.

I've been getting up and laying with this for days, yet there's something inexplicable "calm" in myself...

Not the first time that I need to start over. Now I understand why is the "give us our daily bread" so important. Never before had he left me alone to myself...

That's why it's worth getting up in the morning because I know I'm not alone, left to myself...

There have been many times of deprivation, but I have never been poor. Mine was the richness of God's love and "playfulness", without that we cannot survive...
(08/08/2022)


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