Meaningless and Uncertainty of Life

The Life looks like a spider web. Everything connected and seems that there's an end when, in fact, it's just ilusion. Our vision get stuck in the multitude of links. The ways are presented to us in life are just as it, we have many options, but they're deeply very similar, insecure, unstable, puzzling. There is only one stable way. We can see it in a prismatic way, but it's just one road. In this road we can see clearly how the other ways are fake, how they go by since are nothing more than moments, poor experiences of pleasure, attempts to be someone or having someone. In this way we can find what we are, the pleasure we that maintain us fighting and the meeting of all needs. Yeah, the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want, said the Psalmist. Life shows it's ways as a maze. The many ways are possible, but only one can take you to the right direction, if you go so much astray you can lost yourself completely, if you consider your ways and watch over your steps you will be wise and will inherit a good end, the final target. In life things that seem so real today, tomorrow will be just ashes or troubles, the other way that looked like difficult can be so interesting as the years pass. The instability of life can make us disbelief things, people, everything. But there's a rock when we can put our trust so that we can make our ways straight and be caught up when we fall. Therefore, our mission is to struggle for living a deep life, not to go with the group, not to follow what our sight says or what our hearts call as good, but to understand how deep down the wisdom is. Digging the hole for a great building, a marvelous future.

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have:

Love
prayer
and forgiveness

(Photo: Jalal from IRAN)
What to do when prayer doesn't work?
Once Jesus said "why you say 'Lord', 'Lord' and doesn't do what I ask you for? That's a real huge problem related to our postmodern (or whatever other term to define this indefinition) times. People want spirituality, people simply found out that reason was not enough to fill in their lack of meaning. That happened just after the Second World War, an era that looked like a terrible marenight. However, that religious sense the most of the time is not connected to a sense obedience that it must have. Sometimes an utilitarian faith, sometimes a weak faith that only knows about empty practices or discourses or even prayers. The problem is that we cannot have the gift without the giver, it would be in vain. The issue is that we must be ready to change our way for a real repentence. You don't need to lament your sins all the time, but just feel it to the point you can realize how it's important to change. We must understand that our religious practice are useless if we are not ready to "deny ourselves everyday and take up our cross until the end". Otherwise our deeds are going to be in vain. A devoted heart is want God really wants. Nothing more, nothing less, He just wants us in his altar. Then, the peace will overwhelm our hearts and all we do will succeed, just as told in Salm 23. Just like the ants obey their masters without order and silently, we will serve God with a willing and glad heart. Thus, He will be our strength... and there's nothing better than count on 'The Lord of the Armies'.

GO BACK HOME!

(Photo by Jalal, Iran)

GO BACK HOME, it was the title of a letter I received from a magazine publishing house. Not a big deal, if I would not consider it also a message from God. Ok, I can be crazy for many people (including christians) to believe God talk to us by many ways during our lives, it's only necessary to open our hearts. The fact is that I needed to go back to Him, to give Him my burdens of sin, worries and weaknesses. I needed more than anything else in life God's healing presence. So, I went in search of Him, he's always prepared to receive us. Some people simply believe that weak people need the idea of God to deal with their existence crisis. In fact, it's true. Weak people need God because they don't have other means to survive unless by his presence. Other people can live well without the idea of God as far as they believe in themselves. But there are some who are "poor spirited" and need His presence. However, this apparently weakness can be so improving since we can have somebody so real in our daily life. Someone that can show us the way back home, the right path to walk, in whom we can rest and wait. Our weakness becomes strength since we can count on Him as our strong rock, something really solid when all the world seems slippery. What to do then? Go back to God Father's arms. It's impossible to live whithout Him after realizing who He is. He becomes the source of happiness of our lives. A healthy fountain where we can always drink. In this way you become strong, because you are not anymore subdued by the passions in the world that can be horribly decaying. You can find your way back to life, back to God, back to whom you really are.

THE SOFT BREEZE

The presence of God according to Bible is compared to a soft breeze. Why? Maybe, because only this presence can give us real peace. Moreover, I think our attemps to rectify our ways and performe good deeds are like storms, like unstable sea waves, without direction, without purpose. We try to make the waters calmer by shaking it, we try to "lift up by pulling our own shoelaces". That's how human beings are. But is there a solution? What shall we do then? Search for a soft breeze. This means you're not going to shake the water anymore, you must recognize you can't do by yourself, it's God's work. It also means you must change the focus, instead of searching the benefits that would come out we must eagerly desire having a deep encounter with God. We don't need the solution of our problems, we need God enthroned in our hearts. In this way we will see that the problems were just the lack of Him, even if apparently the troubles can continue existing, we have now peace on our minds and hearts. All we need is a soft breeze so that the true change may occur. God can turn everything upside down so that we can see it differently. There's nothing compared to feel his strong and relieving presence changing what we are and the way we see things completely. Just a soft breeze.

THE BEAUTY OF LIFE

Photo taken by my friend Jalal, from Iran, Mashhad
Life is : with it's enchantments and troubles, with it's hardles and awards, a bit complex, but a beautiful thing. A scholar said, we tend to associate it with a war. Is life really a war? Maybe, but there are also moments of happiness, if they don't come, we must await anyway , because soon the sun of happiness will shine over our face. It's important to have a positive vision towards life. Try to think about the many beautiful landscapes which you haven't seen yet, the great people you haven't met, the marvelous cultures you don't know about, the knowledge you will be able to get, and life goes, like a river, if there's a rock, it doesn't mean it's bad, but that the river movement will become much more beautiful.

GOING BACK TO GLADNESS

It's something difficult to talk about: gladness. In this life when Muphy's laws sometimes seem so real I think I'm not at all the only one that face barriers to see life in a positive way. However, there are good news for us, there's a way back to gladness. It's kind of difficult because you have to deal with what has been for years in your heart, all the hate and pain and incredulity (cynicism) you accumulated during life. However, you just need to try having a positive action towards the facts of life, you must recognize the good things God has given you, the gift of life, the biggest one, his Son, Jesus, who died for you, the friends he gave you and everything else. Maybe, just like me, you've got to the point of doubting if God really loves you. But he does, and you will perceive it if you ask him to show you his love. You will fill when you meet some people that have been touched by God and that can help you feel his touch too. Many people may have hurt us, but you must be sure, the healing will come from God, it's alway available. Maybe, we are hurt so that we may prove the love of God through his healing hand. So, try to sing a song of gladness, never forget, you're beloved and no person or circunstance can make it different.Beloved by God. Then, as a life of gladness begin, try to love other people, try not to think about merit, nobody deserves, but we can make a difference because Jesus did it first.

My Poem
The true love gets rid of the fear:
So don't be frightened my dear
Just wait til see everything clear
That's what I've learned with my tears

Le vrai amour se défaire de toute la crainte:
Pourtant, ne craints pas, mon cher
C'est seulement espérer jusqu'à voir tout bien clair
C'est ce que j'ai apris avec mes larmes.

El verdadero amor se deshace del miedo,
Así, no recelas amigo
Solamente espera para que sea todo visible
Es todo lo que he aprendido con mi llanto

wo3 shì shéi?我是谁？ Quien soy yo? Je suis qui? Quem sou eu?who am I?

We only meet ourselves in the relationships we construe during our lives. The most important, however, is the relationship with God. He's the source of all perfection and love. All we need. He's the Best Friend, the Conselor, The Prince of Peace, The Shelter. I just need his love, I need his love so much that I can let all behind and follow him. I want my cup overwhem because only in this way I can go, I can really be free. I want his love as torrents of water going on my life, purifying, changing, moulding, reviving, making of me his son, his adopted son, my price is the price of blood, God's only child blood, that's why I can't give up. He's love in infinite. His love makes us love people despite of what they are. That's the true love, ágape.

Who am I?