Place yourself in the right place! Leave the running for the younger and fit! There is always a place, a task, a mission, according to our age, strength, experience, willingness and resolve!
For some will be the conquest! For others, just the fighting! For many, the endurance! For fewer, the opportunity to make changes and change themselves, hopefully into better human beings!
But always, count your blessings! And act accordingly as well! Be grateful! Be positive! And pray! We are never taller and stronger than when we are standing, humbled, on our knees.
Yesterday it was not a hectic day but one of timely circumstances, testimonies’ sharing and exchanges that led me, early this morning, to the above detailed conclusions.
There is something invaluable in life. And this is the passionate, enduring and not compromising personal integrity! It is what gives significance to our lives!
But as Life, being a process and a constant and evolutionary one, Integrity has to evolve side by side with it, to meet the challenges as they arise, without losing one bit of what it gives its name to it: INTEGRITY!
What I mean is that there is a corresponding stance to every circumstance in life. Lessons are learned and consequently are applied, so the responses are consistent with the actions they respond to.
Every cause brings about a consequence, an observation, questions and answers, and solutions, hopefully the better and the righteous ones.
Life is not static even if cyclically repetitive, and consequently, too, even at the risk of repeatingly renewing ourselves, as living human beings we must be dynamic and resourceful, placing ourselves in the right behavioral places and attitudes.
There is actually a tendency to overwhelm ourselves by submerging in the most vicious of the generational cycles, which is that of accepting and assimilating the incessantly pounding of deception and lies, until they become certitudes and truths.
That´s why we lose the right perspective of life and its rightful priorities. And I emphasize righteousness, not platitude, utopias, expediency, convenience or imputable inevitability. Even if and when, generation through generation, we see evilness and injustice prevailing most of the times.
It is up to us how to respond and find the balance in our lives. In a worldly way or a Christian one!
For some will be the conquest! For others, just the fighting! For many, the endurance! For fewer, the opportunity to make changes and change themselves, hopefully into better human beings!
But always, count your blessings! And act accordingly as well! Be grateful! Be positive! And pray! We are never taller and stronger than when we are standing, humbled, on our knees.
Yesterday it was not a hectic day but one of timely circumstances, testimonies’ sharing and exchanges that led me, early this morning, to the above detailed conclusions.
There is something invaluable in life. And this is the passionate, enduring and not compromising personal integrity! It is what gives significance to our lives!
But as Life, being a process and a constant and evolutionary one, Integrity has to evolve side by side with it, to meet the challenges as they arise, without losing one bit of what it gives its name to it: INTEGRITY!
What I mean is that there is a corresponding stance to every circumstance in life. Lessons are learned and consequently are applied, so the responses are consistent with the actions they respond to.
Every cause brings about a consequence, an observation, questions and answers, and solutions, hopefully the better and the righteous ones.
Life is not static even if cyclically repetitive, and consequently, too, even at the risk of repeatingly renewing ourselves, as living human beings we must be dynamic and resourceful, placing ourselves in the right behavioral places and attitudes.
There is actually a tendency to overwhelm ourselves by submerging in the most vicious of the generational cycles, which is that of accepting and assimilating the incessantly pounding of deception and lies, until they become certitudes and truths.
That´s why we lose the right perspective of life and its rightful priorities. And I emphasize righteousness, not platitude, utopias, expediency, convenience or imputable inevitability. Even if and when, generation through generation, we see evilness and injustice prevailing most of the times.
It is up to us how to respond and find the balance in our lives. In a worldly way or a Christian one!
One of my sons, yesterday, emailed me his response to some of my comments. He pointedly said: “Hello, dad; impressive. I believe that all this has always been present in the history of mankind; today, the world is not better or worse than before (there is only more information and technology today), it just keeps refusing to recognize that it needs to give God His place, that only corresponds to Him. Only then we will be able to eradicate all the maladies you mention. Blessings!”
About the same time another one of my sons was chatting with me saying that he thought I was isolating myself within the boundaries of mordacity, frustration and despair, and that I had stopped listening to the subtle sounds of positive and optimistic change.
I must be honest. I felt some bothersome tingling under my emotional skin and I reacted kind of negative to him. I left my laptop and went downstairs where my wife was listening to praise and worship songs, spreading out of the TV set and the AdoraTV channel, as she usually does every morning, every day, while busily tidying up our home.
I found her in the company of a very nice and humble mature woman who comes around almost every day, selling cocoa powder little bags, to support her grandchildren, all by herself. And we started to share about blessings outpoured over us by God, throughout our lives.
And we talked and talked, and we smiled, rejoiced, and encouraged one another, while worship songs kept floating in the air. And we had to recognize that it is possible to live by faith, and that we can stand still knowing that He is God. And then.. we counted our blessings, we rejoiced and prayed!
And instead of crying out because we forgot how to live ending up living in regret and despair.
About the same time another one of my sons was chatting with me saying that he thought I was isolating myself within the boundaries of mordacity, frustration and despair, and that I had stopped listening to the subtle sounds of positive and optimistic change.
I must be honest. I felt some bothersome tingling under my emotional skin and I reacted kind of negative to him. I left my laptop and went downstairs where my wife was listening to praise and worship songs, spreading out of the TV set and the AdoraTV channel, as she usually does every morning, every day, while busily tidying up our home.
I found her in the company of a very nice and humble mature woman who comes around almost every day, selling cocoa powder little bags, to support her grandchildren, all by herself. And we started to share about blessings outpoured over us by God, throughout our lives.
And we talked and talked, and we smiled, rejoiced, and encouraged one another, while worship songs kept floating in the air. And we had to recognize that it is possible to live by faith, and that we can stand still knowing that He is God. And then.. we counted our blessings, we rejoiced and prayed!
And instead of crying out because we forgot how to live ending up living in regret and despair.
Or having giving up, resignedly, asking the Lord to take us by the hand and lead us to the home of eternal rest, before our due time to leave arrives.
Or listening to His Voice, telling the mountains to move and drown into the oceanic waves of His Grace, because He is God, He is Good, He is Faithful, He is merciful and dearly loves us.
From now on, I have decided to stay calm,
trusting God much more than what I already do,
balancing my life with awareness of what is going on all around,
but keeping my inner peace,
and praying for my own, as well as everyone else
who could find him/her/self
under pressure, coercion and deception by the rest.
I know it is not an easy task
as the remembrances of what we had to go through,
both individually and as a family,
so many years ago, because of similar political circumstances,
are usually extremely hurtful again,
and almost unbearable to accept.
Because in the end, and for all that really counts,
is necessary to remember,
that is easier and better to concentrate
on what is right, and what we can hope for,
than in what is faked, doomed or wrong.
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