Sunday, 22 June 2008
i have a little sharing, of my own personal experience to share with you. I hope it will stir some thoughts in you.
for the many years in my life, i have many dreams, many things that i dream of doing.
i dream of starting a band (i'm serious). i dream of being a sucessful teacher. i dream of being rich and famous. i dream of being a singer. i dream of a lot, a lot of things.
but somehow, all these fanciful dreams that I have doesn't seems to be happening.
rather, I see that God is calling me to a total opposite of what I dream of doing, what I dream of becoming.
All of us have dreams. We have dreams of becoming this, becoming that. We want to do this, we want to do that. We want to achieve this, we want to achieve that. Everything is about "Me, Myself, and I". We make ourselves the Holy Trinity. And when things doesn't turn out the way we want it to be, we blame God for it. We question the presence of God.
God has created us out of his own image and likenes... In this weekend's gospel, we have been reminded that we are worth much more then the sparrows. Thus, since God loves us so much, will He not wants the best for us?
God too, has dreams for us. And His dreams for us is to be happy, simply because this God of ours loves us, and thus, He wants us to be happy. The happiness might not be the happiness that our world offers. The happiness that God has for us, is a happiness that I would call it, a 'bittersweet' happiness. Bitter, because His dreams for us is very hard for us to accept. Sweet, because that is the real happiness that God wants us to get. And that happiness is sweet.
Back to my experience. As I look back at my life, though not very long, only 22 years (stating the fact that I am not very old), I see that God indeed has dreams for me. And He has bigger dreams for me, which I am sure, base on my own human strength, I will be unable to fulfill it, and in addition to that, be very afraid about His dreams for me.
But, whenever I entrust myself to fulfill His dreams for me, I'll get to taste the sweetness of it. The ultimate sweetness comes in the peace that comes along with it. People around you will see the difference in you. The peace of God in you will make you glow. You will still be yourself, with the difference that people around you see a change in you. Not a physical one, but a unspeakable change.
So my friends, when you pray, pray for the grace and strength of God, to enable you to fulfill the dreams that God has for you.
God has dreams for you. Do you dream of fulfilling those dreams, for God?
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