In America we live in a culture that tells us that we have a right to many things, if not everything. But being on the World Race has revealed to me that I could no longer call the things that I thought I had a right to “rights” but only sweet sweet blessings that could be taken away at any moment. I feel like that when we have the mentality that we deserve or have the right to something we move in to the mindset that it can never be taken away. So I never would have guessed that in just 2 months that so many of my so called “rights” that I thought I had would be taken away from me.
Like the right to taking a shower every day, the right to getting 8 hours of sleep, the right to just being alone, the right to smile at a male and have it not mean something dirty, the right to ride on a bus and not have my personal space invaded, the right to pick up the phone anytime and call my friends and family, the right to go to a church service that I actually understand, the right to take as long as I want in the bathroom, the right to make a decision that will only effect myself, the right to be lazy when I want, the right to throw my toilet paper in the toilet and not in the garbage that is infested with nasty germs, the right to wear the clothes I want, the right to eat the portion of food I want, the right to wear clean clothes, the right to not get peed on, the right to have my mommy when I’m sick and the right to go home whenever I feel like it!
Whenever I told myself I had a right to something I assumed it was because I deserved It instead of thinking “wow look how amazing my God is for giving me something that I don’t deserve at all”. Having these things taken from me has made me realize that nothing in this world is for certain except for God himself! he is allowing me to let go of many of my false securities and cling on to the only thing that will 100% always be there and never leave me.
