I was talking to my friend Ben today and he shared with me a very good analogy from the book Abba's Child by Brandon Manning... I would like to share it with you. Well... very much simplified and paraphrased. Life is like a box of chocolate... um... oh, wrong book, wrong movie.
Life is like a pond. When we feel like our life is in a mess, it's like the pond has been stirred... the water is now muddy and we can no longer see clearly through the water. Our reflection has become distorted. If we don't have 'stillness' in our lives, and we cannot be stillness and wait in solitude for the water to calm down, and we keep on stirring the water (trying with our efforts to fix things or not addressing the issues from the root and continuing asking God 'why, why, why'), all we are going to see is more muddyness and more distorted images of ourselves through this pond. We will not see who God has created us to be until we spend time waiting on Him, and waiting for the water to be still. It is then, after the 'ripples and mud have settled,' can we start to see clearly our reflections and the clarity in our environment. It is then we can see things clearly and get to know ourselves without distractions or lies.
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The water can't still until we have
peace and rest.
We won't get peace and rest until we
stop fighting.
Stop fighting comes out of humble myself.
It is impossible humble myself without God's mercy and grace.
Dad
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