Leaving home for college to study nursing was a mixed emotion for me. You know that feeling when you say to yourself, “I can finally be on my own!” And yet you also know you need to be responsible with your priorities or you’ll end up financially broke before the month ends. (Wink!) Can you relate?
That’s when I learned to be resourceful to make ends meet. I started on my entrepreneurial journey selling products like Avon and t-shirts, and books, just to make sure I have something I can spare for rainy days. I learned to choose activities that won’t cost me money like joining our church choir or hiking out with friends.
My church friends became my second family and I was always looking forward to our early morning devotional on weekends. One time we held our morning worship in our school campus by the pond and we started throwing pebbles into the water. I was inspired with the thought that a tiny pebble can actually start a movement in the otherwise sedentary pond.
RIPPLE OF LOVE
By Jeroselle Centino a.k.a. Jiji Chai
Picture a pond with a lily
Color the flower so pure,
Match it with leaves, spread like wings and so green
Floating so still and demure.
Yet, have you noticed the dullness
A vision of beauty but pale,
But if a pebble is thrown in the pond
A ripple will carry the tale.
Send now a gift which the world badly needs
You can do better than sigh,
Someone is waiting for you to create
A ripple of love, you and I…
And when the weather is stormy
A raindrop may fall in the pond,
But now the ripple and lily-white flower
Share love as their common bond.
So send now a gift which the world badly needs
You can do better than sigh,
Someone is waiting for you to create
A ripple of love, you and I…
