It has been several weeks now since I started noticing how "positive" people are around me...
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He nourishes his "hidden life" with Christ and ministers to people like him.
I remember an incident before I left the convent, at my days of depression. I overheard a comment a volunteer made, which until now clearly rings on my mind ~'NOW, I know it serves a purpose' ~ thank you.
"Look at her [referring to me], she's complete yet incomplete at the same time."
Complete with all the faculties the Lord has given me ~ rich in talents the world can benefit from ~ and yet I dis-abled my mind, closed my heart and hands and stifled my growth. In short, when I stopped giving, I ceased living...
You see, change doesn't happen in a day, a month, not even a year. Time is relative to God. An experience should touch one's heart, break it open ~ to awaken the soul!
We might find ourselves crippled, not necessarily by a deformity, a gene defect, a freaking accident, but by our own prison cells ~ FEAR, strict rules, narrow-minded parents, culture, religion, beliefs, inordinate attachments, judgment of other people.
“The work of the eyes is done.
God will always find all the means for us to open our doors to Him...
At one of the conventions I attended a few Saturdays ago, I helped out at the registration area where I immediately identified this 'beautiful soul' among the crowd ~ a vibrant guy ~ a new face ~ who kept on coming back to our desk to ask for the VIPs so he could assist them. We were not formally introduced until dinner time ~he was the recently hired Coalition coordinator~ but even before that, I was very eager to know his 'story.'
He had only one arm.
Apparently from the bone structure, the deformity was not inborn but was caused by an accident early 2000 New Year. What really caught my attention was his oozing confidence. It was the careful attention he gave each one of us that made him extraordinary ~ and here I was thinking, how could he give so much when he lacks a hand?
He nourishes his "hidden life" with Christ and ministers to people like him.
I remember an incident before I left the convent, at my days of depression. I overheard a comment a volunteer made, which until now clearly rings on my mind ~'NOW, I know it serves a purpose' ~ thank you.
"Look at her [referring to me], she's complete yet incomplete at the same time."
Complete with all the faculties the Lord has given me ~ rich in talents the world can benefit from ~ and yet I dis-abled my mind, closed my heart and hands and stifled my growth. In short, when I stopped giving, I ceased living...
My hands were full. I was holding on to security. Then the Lord said, "Let go, let go!" And when I finally did, He worked on me full time.
You see, change doesn't happen in a day, a month, not even a year. Time is relative to God. An experience should touch one's heart, break it open ~ to awaken the soul!
"The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph."
~ Mr. Mendez, a line from The Butterfly Circus ~
We might find ourselves crippled, not necessarily by a deformity, a gene defect, a freaking accident, but by our own prison cells ~ FEAR, strict rules, narrow-minded parents, culture, religion, beliefs, inordinate attachments, judgment of other people.
We were all born with wings:
"BREAK FREE and LEARN TO FLY!"
... everything in its proper time ...
in God's perfect time...
*Kindly spend time to watch this.*
“The work of the eyes is done.
Go now and do the heart -
work on the images imprisoned within you.”
~Rainier Maria Rilke~
God will always find all the means for us to open our doors to Him...
listen to that voice that says,
"You are precious in My eyes,
and honored,
and
I love you."
~Isaiah 43,4~