Fifty pesos

I was a college student then. My mom and I only got fifty pesos to spend for food and its still 3 more days before pay day. We were just staring at each other for hours with the P50 bill on the table. At last mom got up and said, "We can manage with this, don’t worry!". But as she said this i can see from her eyes how worried she was. Then jokingly I said, "It’s OK Nay, you can buy so many things with our P500!" My mom immediately answered with, "How hungry you might be! that you’ve gone mad! This is only fifty not five hundred!" My mom sometimes doesn’t like humor on times like this! But really there’s nothing to joke about that time. I was just trying to keep that worried look off her face!. That’s when she left.

An hour had passed…..two….three? maybe….then she came. Carefully taking out from her plastic bag what she had bought for us. Never before had i seen a garden laid down on the table All the vegetables that you can find in your garden, a half kilo of the cheapest fish (tamban), and a kilo of NFA rice. I was helping mom to prepare our dinner when she remembered something. She pulled out a folded and dirty paper from her pocket and said, "Sy, can you look at this and see what’s inside? I found it on the way to the market!"

I reached out for the paper. It was so dirty and got lots of footmarks. Many people may have come before my mom and just stepped on it. Mom said she was hesitant at first to pick it up but then she felt a strong urge to have that dirty paper. She just slid it into her pocket then went her way to the market and have forgotten all about it until now as she was trying to see how much was left from our fifty pesos. I was trying to put off some dirt from that paper when i’d noticed that there was something written on top of the paper. It says, To: Marie. I told mom, "It looks like a love letter mom. You told me not to read someone else’s letter before. Shall i read this one?" Mom answered, "Don’t worry we don’t even know who that Marie is and she doesn’t know us either! So c’mon read it." "OK as you said so!"

It was no ordinary paper…. it’s a stationary and neatly folded. When i came to the last fold, I hardly believe what I saw. In it was a P500 bill! When i told my mom, she nearly dropped our dinner to the floor. We were so blessed that time.

It’s really true that He will provide when you are in need. Just hung on and have faith. He will defintely send you His gift that will be exclusively yours. You see my mom’s name is Rosemarie!