Eeasy Peasy Lemon Squeezy

My youngest daughter has this little saying that she had been repeating for a while.  It goes “eeasy peasy lemon squeezy,” and I love it.  So the other day, I wanted her to say it because I hadn’t heard it for awhile and she replies “I’m getting bigger now, mama, I don’t say that anymore.” 

And I (in some weird “wanting to hold on to the cuteness of children as long as possible” way) snorted and said “well, even big girls can say that – so keep saying it okay?”  

So, I thought about that – how we do have it easy.  We really do.  

We don’t have to plow the fields without the aid of heavy duty machinery.

We don’t have to lug water from the wells to drink.

We don’t have to sift through rice for impurities (I remember helping my great grandmother with this one – and it was a hassle).

We don’t have to sleep on cold floors without the aid of warm electricity.

We don’t have to walk.  Anywhere.

We don’t have to pick up what’s left of our lives after a mega earthquake destroys the ground beneath us.   Unless, of course, we’re reading this from Haiti.

Eeasy, peasy are our lives.  No matter how intense certain situations are (or how we think they’re intense), we can forgo the drama and relish in the gratitude. 

And this is the promise of Allah SWT, that HE does not burden a soul with more than it can bear.  Yes, sometime there are lemons – bitter.  And squeezing them has to become something we can do.

Be sure we shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in goods or lives or the fruits (of your toil), but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere, Who say, when afflicted with calamity: “To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return.”  They are those on whom (Descend) blessings from Allah, and Mercy, and they are the ones that receive guidance. – [Quran 2:155-157]

This was the young Haitian boy saved from the rubble of the earthquake days afterwards and whose smile was seen around the world.  In video footage of the event, the boy lifts his arms happily – as if taking in the cheers. 

As if saying, “eeasy, peasy lemon squeezy.”

And we think our problems are bad. 

Alhamdullilah.