Health in the fire

Posted Saturday 19 September 2009

People wish for a life of peace and quiet, which is only human. Christians live a life of peace and turmoil, which is the divine plan. When Christians grasp this paradox, it creates a vibrant new beginning to their life of faith. The whole world looks differently to them. They begin to know the feelings of victory and conquest found in higher levels of faith. It is a paradox because the more we wish for calm and quiet the more anxious and worried we become.

Greatness and suffering

Posted Friday 4 September 2009

“Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:7). The tiny breath that God invested in man makes the soul (our real “I”) into an ideal vector for the manifestation of the divine perfection. The human tragedies show how much challenges require creativity and enthusiasm to be overcome. God answers this necessity of perfecting this world by means of the victories and failures of man in whom he invested his breath of life.

To become perfect

Posted Friday 14 August 2009

We can approach truth with words and concepts, but really to know it we have to experience it. Truth is like a symphony whose beauty we cannot appreciate without learning how to read, play and sing. The word of God is such a symphony: “Let my tongue sing of thy word, for all thy commandments are righteousness” (Psalm 119:172). When many people surround us, we realize that we are pretty insignificant. But amid this crowd, where everyone is “nothing”, we feel deep in our heart that we have a mission in this world. Of course, our thoughts are not God’s thoughts (Isaiah 55:8).

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