If I could sum up how the past week has been, I think I would do it best in the ways others have reminded me of the simplest advices I’ve received in life:
1. Life verse: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and rely not on your own insight.” (Proverbs 3:5) When we live for the Lord, life is not tiresome, stressful, “too busy”, etc… Life lived fully and completely with the Lord is JOYFUL!
2. HOPE; do not EXPECT! Expectations are built upon what the human mind knows and all worldly facts, but hope sprouts from the moving of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. And from the heart, the Spirit brings hope into the rest of us. And all hope leads us to faith and love.
3. Love above all. Love above sin. Despite of all pains and all hurts, the most courageous thing to do is to love…not when it is easiest, but WHEN IT IS HARDEST.
In the past few days, I’ve found myself diving deeper into the personal struggles in my life. But… PRAISE GOD! The difficulties were good reminders of how real the world is, but above all, how real God’s love is above everything. My hardships remind me that I will not always know how to cope with something, and they remind me of how imperfect I am. And it is in saying this that I know that in anything, I am called to ask for a deeper presence of our Father in my life. Without God, I am nothing. All in all, these instances and reminders remind me to say, “Lord, every day… every moment, this is for You. All of me… all of my hopes… all of my dreams and desires are from and for You, alone… Holy Spirit, take control of me. Lord, I love You so much… You are my all.”
If I could basically sum it all up, I think Disney could speak for me (once again). God tends to do that… bring me back to all these childhood/ childlike memories and songs… and maybe that’s what life is about. We need to begin as a child to grow up and be broken (or go off into some sort of adventure), only to realize that at the end, it’s about going right back to the beginning. Only a child can understand what it’s like to be childlike, but we need to be adults to be conscious of ourselves and of God to truly understand what it’s like to have a childlike faith. At the end of the day, the only conclusion I can make is this: God is, was, and always will be my beginning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV3WvlqRwdI