Category: Words of Wisdom

When Darkness Comes

When darkness comes, do not fear. God is your might, God is your light!

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves. – Psalms 126:5-6, WEB

Darkness comes, but it cannot stay. It must sooner or later give way to the light. So when darkness comes, don’t be afraid. God is there even in the darkness where you are, and though you can’t see Him, He watches over you. And He will carry you through until the morning comes.

Darkness Fades

Darkness comes
But it will pass
It cannot last
It can never prevail.

Only light endures,
Only love.
And in the end,
There is only light.

We weep now,
But we hope.
We groan in pain,
But we carry on.

We work in the dark,
But we shall reap in the light.
And though we die, we live.
And we shall always rise.

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Our Precious Now

We often miss the good old times because we fail to see them while they’re with us today.

This is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it! – Psalms 118:24 WEBBE

As much as we treasure what’s precious in the past, let us not fail to recognize the valuable things we have today. Today, we are given a gift – we are given a chance to live, to love.

Today

We’re creating memories now
We’re making the good old times
This is that picture perfect moment
This is that perfect day.

You may not see how
You may not see now
But we’re here where we’d go back to
We’re here where we’d someday want to be.

You may want to skip it
But you’d be glad you’ve lived it.
Someday you’d say,
You were glad you’ve stayed.

So take this moment and live
Remember it would soon pass away
Someday you’d want to return right here
Right at this moment where you are today.

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Love Breaks Free

It is love that sets us free. True love. Unselfish love. Faithful love.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. – Galatians 5, WEBBE

When we love, our hearts expand in such a way as to contain more patience, more understanding and more kindness. It gets big enough to contain even pain, even suffering.

We become courageous in love and we are able to break down barriers that shut us in. We find a way. We think of a way to reach those whom we love so we can take care of them and protect them. We break free from our own comfort zones out of the depths of our love.

It is love that enables us to grow and to reach our fullest potential. We become who we were meant to be. We are freed from our self-imposed limitations and we find the freedom that only those who love could ever truly know.

“Mama’s love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street– and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.” – Corrie ten Boom

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Seeing Both Sides

We see better when we see things through the eyes of Christ.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual discerns all things… – 1 Corinthians 2, WEBBE

Quite often we see only a narrow perspective of life.

Some may see only the bright side of it. They see rainbows and princes and unicorns. They see a fairytale where good things always happen to good people and bad people always get the punishment they deserve.

Some on the other hand see the pain and suffering of this life. They see darkness and lack of a clear path to take. They see a world where the good suffers and the bad triumphs and where there is no happily-ever-after to look forward to.

None of these however reflect a complete picture of life. To see the whole, we must learn to look using God’s perspective.

Try to see the life of Jesus. It certainly wasn’t a life exempt from hunger or pain or even death. Yet it wasn’t a life of complete loss either. It was a life where the sick can be healed, where the hungry can be fed, where even the dead can rise again!

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The Simple Life

When we have God, even a simple life becomes a blessed life.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men. – Luke 2, WEBBE

Whenever we get bored or doubt the value of a simple life, let’s remember Mary’s hidden and simple but truly blessed and meaningful life.

All that mattered was that she had Jesus for Jesus is everything.

We too, in whatever state of life we may be can live simple yet blessed lives because we too, can have Jesus.

When I picture the Holy Family, the thought that does me most good is— the simplicity of their home-life. Our Lady and St. Joseph were well aware that Jesus was God, while at the same time great wonders were hidden from them, and— like us— they lived by faith. – St. Therese of Lisieux