I have a crown. It was given to me yesterday at the Miss BC Pageant for Mrs Charity BC even though I did not put on a fundraising event on like I did last time. Instead, the money was raised because of a tragedy. It was given to me as a part of my inheritance as a Daughter of my amazing family, and a Daughter of God.
Here is what I wrote down to share for the 1 minute I had to introduce myself during the Heart and Soul portion of the Pageant.
“My name is Zana, but I’d actually like to introduce my Aunt Helen to you. My mom died when I was in grade 5, and that’s when she decided she was going to take care of me. We were already living together in one big Asian family unit with 2 other Aunties and an uncle, but she swore to herself then that as long as she had anything to say about it, I would never be hungry or cold. She was a strong, independent woman, extremely generous and always the first to volunteer to pay for dinners. She passed away recently, but she made sure that what she left would be more than enough to cover funeral expenses. So when the white pocket money came in from so many who loved her so much, my family decided to make a donation in her honour, to the Canadian Cancer Society which was so helpful to us in the last years of her life. So if I do well in the Charity BC section, it will be because of her, another gift amongst so many that she has left me.”
I am so grateful to come from a family who have chosen to be generous, andpeople of integrity, generation after generation. Proverbs 20:7 The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!
But even with all that was donated from the funeral money, it would not have been enough because another had fundraised more! I don’t know how or why, but an anonymous donor gave another $2000 through my website, even though I had asked people to give to Denise Tam‘s fundraiser instead.
I am Truly Blessed. God has been So True to His Word.
He gave me a crown, and He gives you one too. That is the one that matters,and that is the crown that will last forever. For the things that are seen are temporary, but the things that are unseen are eternal. Will you come to our Heavenly Father and receive your crown from Him? Jesus took a crown of thorns so we could receive His crown.
Psalm 8:3 -5 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
Cancer may have taken my mother, my dad’s second wife, and two of the Aunts who raised me, but it has not taken away my hope, which is in eternal life through Jesus Christ my Lord who has defeated death. I will cast my crowns before He who is Worthy to receive all glory and honor and power, for He created all things, and by His will they existed and were created, and I will always be grateful to those He used to bless me.