Overcoming All Odds

Day in and day out when out in the grazing field I regretted why the sun went down. Yet even though I drove the herds of cattle late in darkness with all sorts of wild life endangering me, ranging from hissing snakes roaring lions, who bothered or cared as to what would happen or what would she eat? That became a daily event with me. Wild berries therefore were my delicious meal and I regretted when they were off season. To be precise I was abused, rejected and forced into child labour. I remember to this day how I once was woken up one day at 3am to go and fetch fire wood from the nearby hills and how I was stung by a scorpion in the darkness as I grabbed a piece of wood to chop with an axe. “Oh yea” it was painful! Yet who cared, after all I was alone in the mountains at that odd hour? Within seconds my hand was unable to carry on tree cutting. So I used the one hand to load the wheelbarrow, struggled to push it along, staggering and falling on and off while I headed on home. On arrival, instead of being given comfort and support, I was ordered to proceed to a nearby dam and fetch water. By sunrise I had completed all my outside duties. I had to proceed to going on my knees scrubbing and polishing the floors indoors, followed by doing the washing and ironing. By the time school started it was expected to have completed ninety per cent of my duties. This is just how awful a life I grew up in had been so heart breaking and shameful. It really needed a God fearing person to overcome but no one led me to Christ then except that my tears spoke volumes for me and, God could not resist them.