Me Thinks

On gratitude:

A woman and her six children came to America from Somalia as refugees.  Through the efforts of faith groups and charitable community services, the family was provided with a fully furnished three bedroom apartment and food and was assigned to a case-worker to help them apply for documentation, food stamps, Medicaid and financial assistance while introducing them to educational opportunities for the children and job opportunities for the adults.  After a full day of orientation, the fmaily was finally left to themselves in their new apartment.    When Aden Batar (the director of immigration and refugee resettlement for Catholic Community Services of Utah) returned to the family the next day, he found that they had pulled all of the mattresses from the beds and brought them together in the front room of the apartment.  
     "This room is enough for us," the mother told Batar, her voice edged with emotion and filled with appreciation.  "You can bring someone else to live in the other rooms."

Batar adds, "It can be overwhelming for people who are here to escape war and tragedy.  It is wonderful, but it is an adjustment.  Unless you have been through what these people have been through, you have no idea what a blessing it is to be here."

(Taken from a Deseret News Article  November 10, 2013)

This woman and her children had been blessed and provided for.  They deemed what they had been given as more than they needed, and they were willing to share with another family.  Do we have enough?  Do we have more than we need?  Can we share?  This is inspiring to me.