Dear Friends, Reading "Tools & Presence of Our loving God" from Biju, I am prompted to share a reflection with you. Can you ever forget your first the Roller Coaster ride? Or the Giant wheel ride?! There was much excitement surrounding it. It was with much excitement that you'd have bought a ticket for yourself and your friend from the counter. And then the next thing you know is that you are sitting in the bucket chair with the safety strap on. As it takes you up, you feel elevated as indeed you are. Such fun! But then, you reach the top of the curve and you see the world around you for a brief moment. Soon as you have just enjoyed it, suddenly you feel pushed down with such force that you begin go down and you hear screams all around you! Your scream dies in the din! You can't wait till the ride reaches down so that you can get out of the tremendous fall. Once you reach the bottom point then again the coaster despite its twists and turns takes you up for the next down slide. Sometimes our spiritual life seems like this. Knocks us out when we think the going is good. And when we think we are completely exhausted the Power of God empowers us to come up with tremendous energy. It is so difficult in the workaholic, hectic life that most of us take to, to understand why, after all, WHY, the humps and bumps and U turns are there on the road of earthly journey. We forget. It's not an earthly journey. It always had been the Spiritual journey. We tend to forget our destination. On our pilgrimage on earth, our Lord needs to empower me and you, for the final destination. The meaning of our existence. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. God bless us all, Shaji Chacko, Dubai
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