christmas gift.

(CHRISTMAS GIFT; reflection ko nung december 2007, nung nagshopping kami dalawa ni eggay sa boung davao, bumili ng mga gift para sa mga nagmamahal at minamahal hahaha)

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Three days before Christmas, my parents asked me to draw the gift I wanted because “Santa Clause” is coming and that he might just grant it.

I was five years old then, and way back, kids like me really believed in “Santa”. So I immediately grabbed my pencil, tried all the best that I could to sketch the gift I wanted.

Here’s how it more or less it looked like (mas maganda nga lang ito ng konti kesa sa original ko na ginawa hahaha): 

Which I know deep inside my heart is a plane!

Christmas came and I am very much excited to open presents, sa sobrang excited ko, ayoko nang mag-“noche Buena, I rushed to the Christmas tree.

To my surprise, after imaginatively opening the gift, here’s what I’ve got:

a riffle!!!?

Huh? Wait a minute, who asked for this? Too much of high expectations!

Waaahhh!!!

Nakakainis! Umiyak ako syempre, alangan, what

do you expect?

But why? Does he really care? Is he that insensitive? If he does, could he misinterpret this:  

to this 

? Unfair!!!

Because of what happened, I never get the chance to celebrate and to have fun with the rest of the family.

It has been nineteen years now since that tragic evening! (ha ha ha) Yup, it took me that long to realize God’s message for me in that fateful night:

Deep inside me I know what I want; I have a clear picture of it in my mind. You see, the problem lies when we expect too much that people will know and understand what we want. The challenge is for us to share well what we’re thinking or what we want without being misunderstood and or misinterpreted. Lesson #1: Communicate well.

God answers our prayers not according the way we want it to be but according to what He sees best. So lesson #2: Expect the unexpected. Not only will it ease the pain when we don’t get what we want, more so it adds up happiness when God gives our hearts desires.

Because I’m too focused on the fact that I didn’t get what I want, I missed the truth that I have a gift, well, not exactly how I imagined it to be but nonetheless it’s a gift. Should I focused on what I have and considered it as a blessing; my Christmas should have been great. Lesson #3:Never whine. Everything is a blessing, give thanks. Pouting will do no good; it will just make you miss the party.

I might not have the gift I wanted but nineteen years after, I get to ride a real one. Who would have thought that I would not just play with planes but actually ride a real one? It’s worth the wait.