Devotionals
A Part of My Childhood
by Dr. Brenda Robinson
Scripture Reading: Philippians 4:19
"But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."
The most memorable day in my early childhood took place when I was just six years old. Mother called the school one day and left a message for us to catch the bus to her father’s house, where she would pick us up that afternoon. When we stepped off the school bus at our grandfather’s house, mother sat us down to tell us that our home had burned to the ground. She told us that we would have to live with our grandfather until we could get back on our feet.
With the little money she had stashed away, mother built a twenty by thirty foot block basement for our new home. When the basement was completed, we moved in. Soon after, mother became very sick, and we were unable to finish building our new home. With little other option besides, Mother raised all nine of us in that twenty by thirty foot block basement. We didn’t have a lot of room, but we always had each other, and we always had love.
Can you imagine what it would be like to live in a twenty by thirty foot block building with nine kids and an unstable spouse? People were fascinated to see how we even lived and slept. Our home looked like a Marine barracks. There were bunk beds stacked on top of bunk beds. Most of the time, we slept two to a bunk, one at the head and one at the foot. We had such close quarters that when one person forgot to take a bath, everybody else knew it!
In spite of how little we had, mother never complained. She was always thankful for what she did have, and she taught us to appreciate everything in life. She never allowed herself to dwell on the negative. My father was just the opposite. He lived in his own little world—and never found a positive thing to say about it!
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I remember when I was younger my mother use to work 2 jobs she drove a school bus and then worked nite shift at a sewing plant and at one time she worked also at KFC, I got free chicken fingers when she came home and on the weekends when my friends was over they got to enjoy that too..ha..but she had to work all these jobs because at the time my father had been very sick, he had several heart attacks and was unable to work..I remember mom writing a check for a dollar for me to eat lunch at school and I know good and well we really didnt have the money but she made sure I had lunch..As I got older I babysitted through the summer and bought my own school clothes cause we didnt have it to buy them..One christmas I was about 12 or 13 and it was one of the times my daddy was sick, my aunts came up with Christmas gifts and I just thought that was the grandest thing..My mom managed to get me a Michael Jackson cassette that year, it was the cassette thriller but that was all I was asking for cause I knew how tight money was..But like your mother, she never ever complained that I heard and I did have what I needed, it wasnt the name brand clothes or shoes but it was the best she could do..
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