September 24, 2013
Yesterday was very painful as I had to pay money to my
landlord for moneys that we owed them for a late payment of our rent. This is money that we
struggled to save for the last month and a half to pay off some of our balance at
the furniture store. We do not have a
table to have our meals at this moment and we are using a small table to crunch
together and eat. We do the best we can
with what we have.
My kids and my wife
and I know what it is to be poor from different experiences in our lives. We know how to be patient and make the best
with what we have. The table that we had
had legs that just got too loose and it did not fit in our eating area. So we decided to get rid of it. We settled for the small table. We found this great table that can fit eight
people made of wood and my wife was able to mix and match the chairs she
liked. So we put it on lay away to save money
on interest and gather our funds this way.
The money that I paid the landlord was going to be used to
pay for the table. Now we will have to
wait a few more weeks to get the table hopefully for Thanksgiving dinner we
will have our table. It is disappointing
but we faced financial struggles we fell behind and had to suffer late fees and
legal fees.
My life has not always been this way. But it seems that poverty has been in my life
in several stages of my life. I remember
living in Mexico and my father had left us to work in California. We survived on what my mother could earn
washing and ironing form neighbors. I
remember one day that I had to go to school and my mother did not have money
for me to buy food at school. So she
took me to the corner store and got an avocado on credit and made me a dinner
roll with avocado for lunch. That
sandwich was so good. Perhaps because I
was so hungry.
Things got better then. Things will be better soon, Lord willing.
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