I had made my appearance in the family At the age of 16,
Because I was raised with my godmother, who was also the one I knew as my real mother. How all this happened?
It’s a different story that I will relate in another chapter.
A few months after my integration with my mother and three other children, I didn’t feel at all a stranger, since the blood calls for blood. But, I must admit that I never had the guts to call my mother Mother, and it suited her well because, although everyone knew that I was her son, Petionvillois we are, a town of a few thousand inhabitants, where lived a hundred families, where everyone knew everyone else’s business, and nothing could escape from them. For some people, she said that she was my godmother, which did not bother me in the slightest.
After joining my mother, I had to deal with difficulties that I had never known before. This had allowed me to understand how integrity and trust in a higher being really might change everything, call it; God or by any name, but the grace comes in its time.
My mother was not a worshipper, she did not embraced no belief and was not a churchgoer, but she cherished values and was very trusting and respectful of life. I remember that one day, while we were helpless for several days, even to be able to eat a loaf of bread, she told us: my children, do not worry, it is a bad turn we take in life. God will come to our rescue. This is to indicate a side of faith. She had then illustrated without knowing what had said Vauvenargues: “He who knows how to suffer, can dare everything.”
This statement was worth more than doing like the Pharisees,; walking pilgrimage sites.
This faith that she instilled in us led us to the understanding of who was the real Father.
The vicissitudes encountered then helped me make the right decision that was; to look for work, still very young, fortunately, a little door was opened to me, door that I opened wider by learning and doing everything that this company required to succeed. A door that I closed reaching the age of retirement, having spent 50 years working in the same place,
It reminds me another quote from Pierre Corneille:” There is no age to valued souls.”
I performed the role of the fate of an entire family.
Let me explain:
Due to lack of physical subsistence, my brother and sisters could never reach no end of a school year. Being the third child in the family, and believe me, I did some research on this, to understand why most of us, the third ones, are the recipients of the worst treatment from our parents?
It is to train our character to become leaders, because we would be called to assume the direction of things in the family, that is, we are the ones to whom providence has entrusted all the blessings that the family will have needed, that we should distribute when time comes, so that, the true purpose of their existence can be achieved .
“There is a time for everything”
A third child should always be sought, but monitored. Remember the adage that says: “Never two without three. ” Or, “good things always come tripled”.
We seldom bring curses in the families, instead, we change the so-called bad luck into good fortune.
Returning to the subject concerning the companion of my friend’s father. (Companions, because they work in the same company.
A true story to help you understand.
One day, I was approached by two rather innocent young ladies, who claimed that they were my sisters. I dare asked how is that? They said; paternal side. Intrigued, I wanted to know how these girls were able to pin me down and why?
It seems that a sense of guilt or a bad conscience had crossed the mind of a certain man, their father, who told them that he had another son. Rare, but it was my case. Someone who had followed me very closely but discreetly they said, and since he had witnessed this man that I became, by exemplary actions, respectability I won, someone he said who has earned a place in society. It was worth to make him known by his other children.
After having fanned this idea for so long, he wanted to finally look this specimen closer.
Tamara
December 11, 2018 at 9:08 am Edit
Have I not commanded you: Be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
I will not say THANK YOU for the good DAD that you are to me, but I will say rather that God has given me the chance to have a son, for whom I commend all the good deeds that you did/do for me.
August 5, 2024 at 11:17 am Edit
Frantz Rimpel
December 11, 2018 at 11:21 am Edit
Thank you for the Bible verse which is very appropriate.
Indeed, we must relay.
Richie the musician has already said his word on good and bad dads.
Holding a grudge against someone without knowing the reasons is a lack of faith.
There are many sowers but only one Gardener to whom The great garden belongs.
Jimmy St-hilaire
June 8, 2021 at 4:26 pm Edit
After reading this beautiful text a second time with its clear and very explicit style, I can only congratulate you on all counts. Firstly for your open-mindedness which makes you a wide open book for those who want to learn the importance of faith and kindness in the game of life. Secondly, for your courage to look yourself in the face in front of everyone through a text that says almost everything about you in a world where hypocrisy is now the rule and frankness the exception. I hold you in high esteem my friend for your decency and your devotion to lighting the way for others in every possible way. And finally, for your conception of the good Dad who,
rightly leaves no doubt about the merits of the heavenly Father who gave us life and jewels such as you to give us a taste for the non-existence that our bad choices complicate so much. Discovering God’s justice despite the sufferings endured is already an attitude of salvation that illuminates your soul in passing. This is how the flower that grew in adversity that you are never ceases to spread its perfume with a very dear smell in the atmosphere like a haven of hope for life that calls to life towards a perfect destiny. Your mother was your very first blessing despite her weaknesses. Your father was your greatest grateful witness that he could not have done better if he tried to behave like a good dad. Your sisters and brothers were lucky to see a family star sparkling with light like a piece of perfectly crafted Diamond after being pulled from the ground. Your work colleagues had been able to notice this distinctive mark on your image of a hard worker and dreamer that you forced yourself to present to them. And I, who am reacting to this message, am impressed by so many other stories that I learned from you. This is what it is like to have the chance to meet a real winner.
There is no life without a story but the story of life needs our stories to recreate itself beautifully in the hearts of God’s children. I feel amply served my friend and thank you very much for this sharing.
Frantz Rimpel
June 8, 2021 at 4:45 pm Edit
Now there, you have crossed the line.
Is there anything better to attribute to someone who exceeds a Nobel Prize? You have just invented it with this comment filled with flowers 🌷 and jewels 💎 . May this appreciation serve as consolation to all those who in a country like ours where these conditions are legion, but that religion, through lack of circumspection, has not presented God in his omnipresent and omnipotent angle, and who preferred to transfer these qualities to a devil whose power exceeds that of the Creator of the universe.
Jimmy St-hilaire
June 8, 2021 at 4:26 pm Edit
After reading this beautiful text a second time with its clear and very explicit style, I can only congratulate you on all counts. Firstly for your open-mindedness which makes you a wide open book for those who want to learn the importance of faith and kindness in the game of life. Secondly, for your courage to look yourself in the face in front of everyone through a text that says almost everything about you in a world where hypocrisy is now the rule and frankness the exception. I hold you in high esteem my friend for your decency and your devotion to lighting the way for others in every possible way. And finally, for your conception of the good Dad who,
rightly leaves no doubt about the merits of the heavenly Father who gave us life and jewels such as you to give us a taste for the non-existence that our bad choices complicate so much. Discovering God’s justice despite the sufferings endured is already an attitude of salvation that illuminates your soul in passing. This is how the flower that grew in adversity that you are never ceases to spread its perfume with a very dear smell in the atmosphere like a haven of hope for life that calls to life towards a perfect destiny. Your mother was your very first blessing despite her weaknesses. Your father was your greatest grateful witness that he could not have done better if he tried to behave like a good dad. Your sisters and brothers were lucky to see a family star sparkling with light like a piece of perfectly crafted Diamond after being pulled from the ground. Your work colleagues had been able to notice this distinctive mark on your image of a hard worker and dreamer that you forced yourself to present to them. And I, who am reacting to this message, am impressed by so many other stories that I learned from you. This is what it is like to have the chance to meet a real winner.
There is no life without a story but the story of life needs our stories to recreate itself beautifully in the hearts of God’s children. I feel amply served my friend and thank you very much for this sharing.
Gregory Paulemon
July 18, 2021 at 1:21 pm Edit
There is no greater father than the universal consciousness. There are many who have lived stories like yours. They all have one thing in common. The sublime cosmic essence chooses those who must contribute to the expansion of its kingdom. The moments of ordeal that you have experienced are the basis of the formation of your personality. A baptism of fire for all those who have been chosen to advance the level of consciousness of our world.
Frantz Rimpel
September 18, 2022 at 12:01 am Edit
Thank you Gregory for this appreciation and especially for saying out loud what I wanted to say quietly. We must respect all mothers, because being married does not mean that life is all rosy for most women who also bitterly regret having married someone other than God, the true Father, the first Husband of all women. In saying this, I am not blaspheming, since it is written in black and white in the great little book called the Bible: Matthew 23:9
And call no man your father on earth; for one is your Father, who is in heaven.
So, let’s be careful 🥰🤣
Jimmy St-Hilaire
June 20, 2023 at 7:10 am Edit
I just reread your text titled “good dad” and it makes my heart overflow with joy under the effect of your words of wisdom
Moments of distress stress us and constantly press us in order to instill in us the need to remain strong in the face of adversity
Like a bright beacon on the dark sea, our ship sails with hope even in the evening, when we look beyond the causes of our despair
All glory is to God whenever we manage to be in contact with the understanding of his will
For as the Bible says, his thoughts are not our thoughts and his ways are straighter than our ways
Here below as in the hereafter, He alone shines in enlightened consciences and oriented towards the happiness of humanity through the good traces left
Being alive is already a bet won and it is a prelude to the dangerous games to play to win the grand prize
The latter consists of embracing with a glance the immensity of the goodness, love and wisdom of God with a receptive heart full of gratitude for the precious gifts of life buried in each of the lives
Thanks to the harmonious development of our natural gifts, we will know how to contribute to clearing the way for other souls on the path to redemption
In the open air your words have remained uncovered like an open book waiting for the curious with sparkling eyes of a great thirst for new lights