It only takes a spark

A friend of mine once said, if you can even touch or influence one person to be better, and he/she can in turn touch/influence another, and on and on, you can see how many people you have influenced.

 

This song here holds special meaning for me

 

It only takes a spark to get a fire going,
And soon all those around can warm up in its glowing;
That's how it is with God's Love,
Once you've experienced it,
Your spread the love to everyone
You want to pass it on.

What a wonderous time is spring,
When all the tress are budding
The birds begin to sing, the flowers start their blooming;
That's how it is with God's love,
Once you've experienced it.
You want to sing, it's fresh like spring,
You want to pass it on.

I wish for you my friend
This happiness that I've found;
You can depend on God
It matters not where you're bound,
I'll shout it from the mountain top
I want the world to know
The Lord of love has come to me
I want to pass it on.

I'll shout it from the mountain top
I want the world to know
The Lord of love has come to me
I want to pass it on.

God Speaks to Us

God often speaks to us when we least expect it (least of all in my Boss's
car ! ). I was flipping through the bible in my Boss's car on the way back
from lunch,admiring this really huge and heavy bible. And the first page
that opened was on Psalm 13. A striking message at the appropriate moment.

This is what Psalm 13 is about - In the face of despair

Psalm 13
For the director of music. A psalm of David.

1 How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and every day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?

3 Look on me and answer, O LORD my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;

4 my enemy will say, "I have overcome him,"
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

5 But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.

6 I will sing to the LORD,
for he has been good to me.

Pain and Suffering.

This was a reflection I had recently. Remember the last time you had a friend pour out your problems to you ? Remember how you felt ? How sad it was to listen to a good friend suffer so much ? How heart wrenching it was to listen to your friends problems, sorrows and pains ? How you wish you could reach out and solve all his/her problems ? And remember when you tried to help, but got brushed off even when he / she came to you to pour it all out ?

 

I was reflecting on this, on how painfull it was just to listen to one person pour out his / her grief, then it struck me , Imagine how Jesus must feel, when so many of us around the world go to him with our own personal problems. How sad He must be , to listen to each one of us, going to him with all our pain and suffering, asking for his help. Imagine the pain you felt when one friend poured out all his/her troubles to you, and multiply that by 5 billion  ! I know I won't be able to handle the grief ..

 

And even worse, how many times have we gone to Him for help, just to brush Him away , when he came to us. To knock at the doors of our hearts, and wanted to let us know he is there for us. To show how much he loves us, and we just ignore Him , yet still demand to know why He isn' there for us, just because we couldn't see him standing by our side. Imagine how much pain  he feels, standing by your side watching you suffer, wanting to help, but we refused it.

 

But the wonderful thing about Him is that despite the 5 billion people crying out to him , he has time for each and everyone of us. His Sacred Heart is filled with so much love, that he is able to handle all our grief . Despite our rejections, he is standing there by ourside, waiting for us to open the door to our hearts, to let the healing begin.

 

This was a really humbling reflection, to have the privilege of getting a glimpse of how much grief He listens to, and to realise that despite that huge amount of troubles that we bring to him, it is nothing compared to the love He has for us.

 

 

Passion Death and Resurrection

A friend of mine shared this with me last evening regarding the  Passion Death and Resurrection of Jesus. She said that Jesus gave us the ultimate example of  Passion Death and Resurrection, but in our every day life , we endure the process of Passion Death and Ressurection. In our every day challenges and trials, in everything we do, we live through the death , passion and resurrection . This is where in these challenges , we die, suffer through these challenges, till the point of death, and our survival through these challenges are our resurrection.

 

Like Jesus, the most important or joyous aspect is our resurrection, and likewise for us, it is how and if we resurrect is the most important aspect of our daily lives. For example, in our day to day life , where we go to work , and we're faced with the difficult challege such as work , personal life, church life and etc, we suffer through these challenges , often to the point where we feel no longer able to go through it anymore. But passing though this point, it is how we get through the death, and how we emerge from these challengse, and more importantly the person that we are , reborned so to speak is our resurrection.

 

It was quite a profound sharing. Something yet so simple, but meaningful.

 

What is the Calling?

What is my Calling ? What do You want me to be?

I am a mere mortal soul,How can I be of any use?

I am a sinner, yet You have given me so much.

How can I repay your love ?

 

I offer my life as Your instrument.

This humble life you have given me.

I bear few gifts, and even then they were given to me from You.

I want to use these gifts, to love and serve You.

 

I am your instrument, use me as You will,

How will You use me ? I say I leave it to you.

I hear the calling of your voice

Yet I am torn in my heart

 

I see the path You want me to take,

But I lack the faith to follow it.

I ask for signs, to let me know Your will ,

But fear strikes my heart, blinding me from You.  

 

I offer my life as an instrument,

My heart yearns for it.

Yet it is the same heart, that holds me back.

I am afraid, I do not know what to do.

I lack the faith, to answer You.

 

So many questions lie in my head,

I wish someone could guide me....

I honestly do not know what to do.

Lord please give me a guiding path.

 

How could You have chosen me ?

For all my sins and failings.

Isn't there others better then me ?

That can do a better deed