Prevailing tests
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009I am convinced by my God to pray. Likewise I need to, that I may be guided with my undertakings. Somehow, when things seem contemplated enough, I need to consider this inner voice that helps me come up with a decision. In the time right for God and me, I am drawn to places I usually frequent to allow a little more space.
In an outset, God’s promptings are usually given the priority than my very desire. If we could only listen to God more so in the exposed Blessed Sacrament, we can find out that He has many things to say. The problem is that we listen to ourselves more than we can desire to be quiet that we may hear from God.
God usually wants to be invited and we can ask God to dwell in our hearts harkening that voice deep within, knowing well that we are nothing without Him. As much as possible, we need a prayer before any undertaking. We can accept a little more pain but that would no longer help others as their apathy increase. Somehow we need to talk to, even with strangers to clarify what were those that puzzle them in the period that we are taciturn.
We need the courage to relate, as they too are eager to hear from us. As we perceive it right, they are not happy that we consider them our enemies, since they don’t differ from us in the choice of religion. As much as we are found wanting of love and attention, they too desire to be our friends, with me knowing this as I seem to analyze.
Older people need to hear from the young, as this has become the trend. If at the start this has been corrected by our courage to speak out, things would not have been complicated, that as it is seen, some may have already lose approval irritated by the reality that they found us insensitive. I don’t know how true are these perceptions.
We should move on from our past that our wounded selves especially when provoked, leave our lips sealed, not knowing what to say, not even sure who was the one they want to hurt or if those babblings were meant for us or for others. It even puzzles us if it is wrong to be quiet or we need to interpolate joining their mode of conversation that they may become our friends.
We fail to be like Jesus if we don’t have the guts to speak that their hearts will be freed from the burden of being unanswered. If we had been generous with our speech once in our lifetime, even with us being into a different episode, this incident would not mar us from availing our presence to others not only bodily but vocally. Healing does not make us locked in solitude. Somehow, we can use the recent episode to involve others talking to them and hearing from them also.
We should think how Jesus had been generous with his advices and concern over other’s welfare, treasuring the moment, with us not tormenting our fellows by our indifference. It’s nice to bring back the times when we become a friend to all even with us being at first erratic. Why could we not apply it now? What’s the difference being with high school students than those who have already the wisdom to secure themselves?
This is just the episode of trying to process again similar incidents, just as we are used to this before. We only are dealing with brilliant entities that even had the experience of attending recollections and even in fact have the access of these in their institution. Why should we deprive them with their kind of enjoyment, as these were the forms that make them forget their problems?
We will be tested of our mirth by being able to muster courage to involve others in our life. It will become our failure if we cannot concede. After all, life continues to be a brotherhood to many, just like before when we are disquiet. They being persons are truly gifts to us. By relating, we can once more unseal our smiles and laughter, and even those of others’ mirth.
It may be difficult for us who suffered the pain, but we need to be real and not reel. After all this is the reality that we need to regard others if we also desire their kind of happiness more than our aspiration that we can be classified as sane. As the song goes, “It is better to light just one little candle than to stumble in the dark…and if every one lit just one little candle, what a bright world this would be.”
We need to further our acquaintance with others; after all it is not their fault that they saw much from us, even seeing us in our most shameful moments. So why should we bar them from speaking even if we ourselves does not know the truth behind their accusations. Thus there’s a need for us to reflect over and restate incidents, even restore their confidence toward us.
Knowing well that they are no longer high school students, we should consider the measure of their intelligence and our ignorance over their form of refreshing as we hear laughter not solely for us but for friendship. They are still our brothers and we should be a little more kind to them who desires to hail us up from torment, from anger, even from the very bondage of life as God desiring to efface the evil that we had encountered before tests us.