science didnt answer the interesting questions..

From the movie Red Earth

Chantilas: [Suppose] we just finished poisoning the earth and everyone was dead in a hundred years. Then what was the point of anything?

Art, beauty—all gone—the Greeks, the Constitution, people dying for freedom, ideas. None of it meant anything?

What about religion? Do we give up on God too?

Gallagher: You didn’t just give up being a scientist one day, did you?

Chantilas: I realized science couldn’t answer any of the really interesting questions. So, I turned to philosophy. I’ve been searching for God ever since.

Who knows, I may pick up a rock and it’ll say underneath,
“Made by God.”

The universe is full of surprises.

Dreams….

I read something several weeks ago that fitted perfectly into everything that was happening around me that week.

Although I knew, that God had placed me exactly where I am today, I was bursting with questions.

Why not me !? Why is it not happening yet !? How much longer !?
Why here when it just does not seem to be happening !?

All those questions fueled by the fact that I simply was not seeing my desires materialize. I did not see my ambitions achieved within the time frames that I had decided that they must be achieved. Progress was simply not happening the way I decided I ought to be happening.

But, one thing had slipped my mind and it took a very dear friend to remind me. The reason I am where I am. My Father God.

Against all odds, He had placed me here. It was His plan. (And truly it could not have been any more amazing) But all the sudden, I turned things around to how I wanted it to be..leaving His plans and desires out of the picture.

How silly of me!

I read something that very evening whilst still bursting with questions that showed me how extremely silly I had been to cling onto all those dreams and desires the way I did.

I realized that I was never going to achieved any of it that way, and even if by some strange way I did – its sweetness would barely be an ounce. It could never fulfill me.

Because the most fulfilling of dreams are achieved the way God has designed for them to be achieved.

Below, is an adaptation of what I read that night by Stormie Omaritan

“God puts dreams into our hearts to give us vision and inspiration and to guide us to the right path.

That’s why we have to make sure the dreams we have are not from our own flesh.

The only way to be sure is to lay all of our dreams at His feet and let them die. And we must also die to them.

The ones that are not from Him will be buried forever.

The ones that are from Him will be given new life.

We do not want to be wishful thinkers.

We want to live with confidence that our hopes, dreams and expectations are based on God given certainty that He is behind them.

We want the hope that comes from God alone and is built on a foundation of His promises to us and His revealed purposes in us.

This kind of hope is an anchor to the soul.”

Today, my dreams and desires have a new meaning altogether.

Happy Birthday Sunita.

God Bless heaps & heaps !

lots of love,
sher.

Father's Day

For the 1st time since its purchase my car broke down on me. It was approximately 8:15am on Sunday when she (my car – yes, I decided it’s a ‘she’) decided to turn blue and lifeless on me.

This was followed by my brain going momentarily numb.

It was strange …there I was, awake at dawn and on the way to my parents place – two extremely rare events. When suddenly,I found myself stuck within a car that looked like she had decided to take up pipe smoking as a hobby!

A phone call to the God Brother-In Law and an hour and a half later, I found myself taking my first ride in a tour truck! As exciting as I made that sound, I was far as far gets from feeling any form of positive excitement. Instead I caught myself taking little peeps at my baby girl from the side window of the tour truck –“just to make sure she was ok.”

At the mechanics, I frantically described the sequence of events – from the horribly noisy acceleration to me not knowing that my car smokes pipes as a hobby!
My God Brother-In Law (whilst still in shock about the smoking bit) re- enacted all I said in mandarin to the very obliging mechanic.

The diagnosis was passed, which of course was gibberish to me. The bit I entirely understood was how much it was going to cost me. To that , I felt my heart jump out of my body via my mouth which was hung open that wide directly onto my (not so soft anymore) palms.

Options were none. To the price I agreed.

Being greeted by hot iddiappoms and mountains of cheese cake at the God Brother-In Law and God Sis’s place was the warmest fuzziest welcome I could have ever received. After consuming that can only be classified as “dangerous” amounts of cheese cake, afternoon nap time it was – yes I regret it now and yes again, I knew I was going to regret it then.

The best thing about sleep – it always manages to make the hours fly by faster. The next thing I knew I was receiving a phone call from the mechanic informing me that she’s ready to be picked up. Seeing her alive and kicking – now that’s what you call comforting ! For a moment …I almost forgot the dent in my wallet this was causing.

By this time,the consolations were beginning to take position and the sun was giving way to the beautiful crescent...

The strangest thing ever started to happen, it was as if only at that moment everything that had happend started sinking into me…deep into me.

The fact that my 6 month old car spent an entire day lifeless,the fact that i'm probably going to spend the rest of the month extremly broke, but the fact that sank in the deepest was that I had missed being home for father’s day.

The last time I was - I do not cannot recall.

During my drive home from the God Sister’s place, emotions that I ever knew existed within me were beginning to surface. Memories of old, locked away and buried began playing themselves over. By the time I was home, the flood gates were broken and there was nothing stopping them from flowing.

But there was something I knew that moment, clearer than I ever have before was that I may have missed spending Father’s Day with my dad , but what I did not realize till that moment was that my Heavenly Father, my Father God , my perfect Daddy was by my side the entire day.

There He was with me clamming me as I grew anxious while waiting for the tour truck , there He was by my side when I wondered how was I to meet the payments ? He was there in the physical support and affection that I received from my closet friends.

There He was…through every second of that day.



That night as I lay to sleep…I knew I was falling asleep on my Daddy’s lap.

The safest and most secure place ever known. My Daddy healed my fears and put to rest all my anxieties.

That night as I fell asleep, I asked my Daddy to bless all those who have lost their earthly father’s and those have never experienced the love of a father.

I asked my Daddy to remind them that He will always be their perfect Daddy and that they are never short of experiencing a father’s love.


That night as I fell asleep, I whispered “Happy Father’s day Daddy”.

Jesus asked St. Jerome in a vision why he had not given Him everything.

Jerome replied,

“Lord, I have devoted my life to your service. I have given you all my works, all my love, all my praise, everything.”

Jesus replied, “No, you haven’t given me your sins.”

A letter from the heart...

My dearest…

Why do you yearn for love that is momentary?
Why do you search for happiness in all places but one…

Peace has only one source
Happiness has only one source
Love has only one source

Jesus. Make Him the source of your life.
For only His love is eternal…
Only He can fill this emptiness
Only He can complete you.

His love…
Is amazing….
Completes you in a way that’s simply overwhelming in joy!

Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all else will be given to you.
A promise, a command infallible.

hugs,
sherril.

He never sleeps
He never slumbers
He never tires of hearing our prays
When we are weak, He becomes stronger
So rest in His love
And cast all of your cares on Him.....

Don Moen.