"Because the world is filled with fear, go with courage."
"Because the world is in despair, go with hope."
(For this entry, I have decided to give my reflection takes on those two lines.)
It's natural for us humans to be filled with fear at times. It's just natural for us to feel scared about a lot of things. From fear of spiders, cockroaches, darkness, being alone to fear of disasters that can take place, fear of afterlife, fear of failing and a lot more. After reflecting on my own fears and how I handle them, I realized that it's not easy dealing with those. For some reason, though it may sound cheesy, when I look inside myself and when I seek for God's light in me, I suddenly have this feeling that I'll get through those.
Courage. In my opinion, most of us, Filipinos, draw our strength from God. Before taking quizzes, before undergoing anything difficult or new, we always pray. We always ask for God's guidance that we may overcome our fears, our problems. And I could say that it's not a sign of weakness, instead, a sign of faith.
I guess that's something unique to us Filipinos, the deep trust we place in God to strengthen us. That's why I am believing that maybe it's not purely "go with courage", since God is the source of our courage. Perhaps it could be "go with God", again.
And I guess it is related on how we put our trust in God a lot with a lot of other things too.
And perhaps, that's the reason why we never lose hope. We always look to God that we not lose hope. We'd trust in ourselves too and then seems like we're filled with hope. And that's something I find interesting.
We "go with God" specially in times of despair. We seek refuge in Him. We seek for comfort in Him. We run to our Father. But God has a funny way of doing things. He acts upon different people around us and experiences.
I remember there was this time that I was so down. I thought that everything was just not going the way for me on that day. I saw my score in my Physics Long Test which was low, I failed a Math quiz, I had problems with my group mates for a project, I was feeling sick. When I got to our house, it didn't feel like a home. Everything was turning out bad that day. I was on the verge of breaking down and just didn't want to do anything. I didn't want to study for an English Long Test for the following day, I didn't want to do my homeworks. I just lost hope.
I even asked myself, "Why is it that everything I do, isn't enough? Even after giving all that I could?" I broke down. Thankfully, I was alone in the living room. No one was at sight. When I went online in Yahoo!Messenger, a friend of mine talked to me. I didn't tell him what was up. Least, I didn't tell him truthfully. Wacky's a really close friend of mine, then. Well, we are still good buddies, just not as close as before. Anyway, that made my day. It brought me hope. Maybe there were things that brought me down, but that instance brightened everything. I realized I shouldn't give up. I should just go on.
God acted through a friend and I'm thankful.
I guess this isn't the best reflection I have made since my history of making reflections (circa 2002?). But still, I hope I have given what we could all reflect on.
1) What are the things that have caused me to lose hope and be filled with fear?
2) How many times have I succeeded in overcoming those?
3) How has God played a big role in those times for me?
4) How can I be God's instrument to bring ease and hope to others?
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