Anytime any of them finished in the kitchen, we all knew the next place to go was to pick it up inside the carton. It's not that she was rich, but anytime she had the opportunity to go to the market, she would always refill.
She would buy additional items to add to the ones already in the carton, so we didn't have to borrow anything from our neighbors or walk to the street to get daily needs because she always refilled. So when I see people who, whenever they want to use something, have to go and buy it when they need it, I always wonder why, because of how I was raised.
When I finally left home and went to school, it became part of me; daily needs never finished in my room because I always refilled if I had any small change. I didn't have to borrow anything from my neighbors except when my gas finished while cooking.
Maybe that's why it's very difficult for me to ask for help even when I know I need it. I may be 0 percent broke, I may not have any cash or anything in my bank account, but I never run out of foodstuffs because I always refill immediately I have any little change in me. You may ask me for money, I might not have any to give, but if it's foodstuffs, I will surely give, even if it's little.
I didn't read any meaning into it then, but now I do. Why am I sharing this? See, my people never run out of prayer. Some people, it's their mother's prayer that is still working for them because they don't get time to pray for themselves. Your mom's prayer might finish one day. It's only January 1st, some people pray, after January 1st, they stop praying for the rest of the year. Refill your prayer; prayer gets exhausted too.
Refill your knowledge, learn new things, learn new skills. What you have might not sustain you in years to come. Refill everything that needs to be refilled. A fashion designer, hair stylist, baker who doesn't continually update their knowledge might be out of the market one day. Don't let it finish before you refill. If you have to do that degree , master , phd do it. No knowledge is a waste. Most importantly, never run out of God presence and prayers.