Birthrights

Last night I met a couple of guys travelling from the U.K. Two brothers and their life-long friend, the four of us hung out and bonded. They’ll be in country for another three weeks enjoying their vacation.

While walking from one location to another, Jeremiah(a fellow author) and I chatted regarding the priveledges of being born in our native countries. Our citizenship alone allowed for certain advantages unavailable to those we passed on our commute.

For decades I’d seen immigrants come to America and flourished. They were able to achieve levels of financial success uncommon to most American citizens. Jealous and jilted but mostly baffled it just seemed to be the way it was. But having experienced two foreign cultures, Brazilian and Filipino, what I’ve learned is quite different.

I didn’t have to obtain my birthright. It required no effort on my part. I didn’t have to study or practice. I didn’t need to attend any special trainings or seminars, it was simply mine. As a result, I’ve quite often taken my birthright for granted and not cherished it as one who exerted massive efforts to acquire similar rights. The same can be said of my gifts from Him.

Most new things come very easily and with small amounts of effort before I’m proficient. I often take for granted the things I’m able to accomplish with minimal effort compared to others. I am often vexed on how to assign an accurate value to my services and abilities and frequently work for paltry compensation of said. Those days have ended.

Today, Friday, November 22, 2019, I am grateful that:

I can make time stop(not really but kinda). My routine was interrupted but I possess the ability to resume at any point. It’s taken several hours to arrive at this point in writing(typically it’s less than 30 minutes after awakening) so, for me, it’s as if I can make time stop.

I am grateful that: The lesson of birthrights was revealed this morning. I hadn’t thought of my citizenship and my gifts in that manner. Until today the two had no correlation. Yet the connection was revealed today and as I move forward I will strive towards improving my gratefulness of my birthrights, my improvements thereof, and my ability to place a premium valuation on said gifts.

I am grateful that: Another lesson, with respect to primogeniture, has been revealed. In the context of birthrights it’s the benefits of the firstborn child, rights of succession, inheritance, and the like. For my lesson shows a different angle. I’m His primogeniture. His firstborn! Not in the Biblical or literal aspect, although, through the existence of mankind - I am unique. There will be no others. Therefore, my birth and the rights thereof are assured. No others will exist like you. You possess birthrights as His child and as His firstborn.

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