Thursday 30 May 2013

Random thoughts from a Wednesday

Compassion & Trust
Personal disasters may be small in the grand scheme, but they are no less devastating for that. Even the smallest wounds should be tended by loving hands. If you care in the small things, people will trust you with their tragedies.

Love & Joy
Love is sharing of an intimate, unpredictable kind. Its beauty cannot be fully seen. Its worth cannot be fully expressed. It is ultimately selfless and abundantly joyful. Joy is more predictable, though less known. Joy is a constant, unending delight in God - even in sorrow, even in the darkness to be felt. It is there, delight battling despair, coming out victorious, though perhaps bruised and bloodied, but all the purer for its wounds. Joy is marked by maturity, by a "settledness" that comes from love - we have joy because Christ loves us with love incorruptible.

Hope & Light
If Christians share Christ only in the good times, and fall into despair and hopelessness in the bad times, then what are they doing? We are not only lamps in light, but in darkness as well - especially darkness. That is where the world will see us shining, and wonder at the sight. They may look at the world and see nothing but shadowed tragedy, but there is light. Christ is the great Challenger of darkness. He has overcome it. Through Him, we have also overcome it. God is not only God in our joy, but in our sorrow too. He keeps His flame burning in us, and we need not fear the pitch.

3 comments:

  1. You, my dear, understand.

    And that is all I need.

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  2. Happy Birthday.

    My gift to you is this song stuck in your head.
    http://youtu.be/ZQ_duzQzS1I

    Born on a solstice I guess we know who would have become a human sacrifice in pagan times.
    http://i.imgur.com/KXovWZN.jpg

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  3. Thanks. :D

    I know - I wouldn't have lasted too long.

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By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~Winston Churchill

Smart guy.