On Wednesday last week, I received a surprise compliment from a stranger to the effect that I love my daughters. Then five days later yesterday, I received a somewhat similar remark from a teacher at my children’s school. I really felt that God was speaking to me through these two people that I have loved my daughters the best I could, in spite of the fact that my finances have not enabled me to shower them with all the material things they want. I therefore want to encourage us that we should love our children the best we can, even if we do not have the financial muscle to give them the whole world. God will commend us for this. Hallelujah!
While I was checking out men’s clothing in a certain shop last week on Wednesday, my two daughters who I had left in the car with my phone came to tell me what my wife (their mother), who was joining us soon, had communicated on phone. One of the lady attendants of the shop then asked me whether my daughters, who were in their school uniforms, were in day or boarding school. When I inquired why she asked that, she said that it seems they have just returned from boarding school and therefore I was loving them so much because I had not seem them in a long while. Now, my daughters are in a day school, I see them every day, and I hadn’t interacted with them while at the shop in any unusual way. If I referred to them as sweethearts, I do that seven days a week and more than once each day.
Then yesterday morning, when we got to school and approached the teachers who were welcoming the children, one of them, a lady who has been part of the school for many more years than us said this to me: “I have just been telling my colleague here that if my father had done for me what Mr. Musinguzi does for his children, I would be very far in life, working with top international organizations. You personally drop your kids at school every day.” Because I did not think I was doing anything special or out of the norm, I told her that, “But I am their father, I have no choice, it is my responsibility to drop my children at school.” To this she responded saying, “Well, that is what you think. If my father had done the same for me, I would now be with the ‘commonwealth’.” My interpretation of her kind words was that I love my girls!
After kissing my girls good-bye, I went to the car, got out my book “Financial Prosperity – Breaking the Back of Poverty,” and gave it to the teacher. I told her that, “I actually did something else for my daughters way before they were born. They are U.S citizens. Please read chapter nine of the book and learn what I did for them before they were born that caused them to become Americans.”
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As I said earlier, I believe God specifically appointed these ladies so as to speak to me through them that He (God) acknowledges that I have loved my children. And again, just as I earlier said, I have not been in position to give my daughters all the material things that they want. God has not financially enabled me to do so – for now. As a matter of fact, most of the material things my children enjoy, God has provided through my wife. Yet, it is evident (at least to me) that God acknowledges that I have loved my children to the best of my ability. For in addition to the little I have materially contributed to their wellbeing – God having chosen to do it that way – I have also loved my girls in a way a stranger can recognize even without doing anything out of the norm. And going by what the teacher insinuated, driving my daughters to school every day is loving them.
I believe this should encourage us who have children, especially those with not so much money like me, that we have the potential to love our children with whatever else God has given us. We should not cheat our children of the love they need by saying, “I have no money.” Children actually need love or affection more than material things. The materialistic world of our day has deceived us that love equals ‘stuff’. Please let us not fall for that lie. As Christian parents, let us give our children the love they need by doing for/to them the intangible (yet far more important) things. When we do that, God will commend us for having loved our children, and our children will grow up well with a sense of worth.
God bless you.