So. lil. o. quy
Was there a time when you asked for something you really wanted and needed to your parents (or to your father in particular) and you got no for an answer?
Remember when you wanted to learn playing the guitar when you were in second year high school, when you asked them for a guitar, a week or two later, you got it? Your parents were happy to give it to you even after so many attempts you end up still not knowing how to play.
How about the time when you went to a bookstore with your mother and sister to buy school stuff and you asked your mother to buy you a memory card game? The box was so striking, it has many colors and cartoon characters in it, and you wanted it so much. But your mother told you that it is just the box that is attractive. You insisted and so your mother gave in. She bought you and your sister toys. When you arrived at home and opened the box, you disappointingly played with the simple cards with cartoons on it, nothing more. Mother was right after all but she didn’t remind you of what she said earlier.
This is cute. When you were in grade 2, your father bought pizza for your class. This is for you and your classmates to have a clearer understanding about a very complicated stuff called Fraction. The pizza arrived and your teacher can’t remember she asked you to bring one. Your classmate Joanna who was supposed to bring the pizza the next day kissed you and said thanks.
When you were in first year, you had this inter-section contest – song interpretation. You are just one of the dancers and your classmate Karen played Mary. You thought all the dancers plus ‘Mary’ shall wear halos of fresh flowers, you didn’t know that a simple fake halo would do since it would just be for the practice. Your father did you a halo of fresh flowers, remember the yellow flower?
During your fifth grade in elementary, you joined the cheering squad. Remember when your pompom was the most beautiful of all? Yours was made of properly sheared straws; others were made of only paper or metallic sheets. Your father did it, I know you remember.
One more thing I know you won’t forget is the many sleepless nights you spend with your father either doing your project or catching a movie or a not so popular TV program. Sometimes, it’s just your father who does your project and you just have to wake up, find it finished on the table and all you have to do is bring it in school.
There are a lot more things your parents did for you. I won’t elaborate; I won’t try to recall more.
Now tell me, if they were able to do it for you, what more your Father in heaven will do?
If you feel helpless, impatient, scared or sad, He feels it with you and He surely sends every comfort He could muster to make you feel alright. Maybe He is telling you sometimes that you need not to worry because He’s huge, He is so big that your worries is just a speck on His hands. Just listen more and you’ll hear.
If you feel overjoyed, excited and surprised, aha! Picture Him laughing with you, smiling, jumping out of joy because that is exactly what He does.
He is your Father, not the villain in your story. It’s okay to let Him know what you want, whom you want to be with, where you want to go. Your dreams are also His dreams.
So the next time you feel you’re facing a dead end, remember one thing that your father or mother did for you and think what more your Father in heaven can do.
If you then, with all your human frailty, know how to give your children gifts that are good for them, how much more certainly will your Father who is in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? —Luke 11:13
Thank YOU Jesus! T.T
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