< Punta de Lobos, Pichilemu, Chile
“God, please take this sickness away from me as fast as possible. Restore my body to good health. Touch me so the pain miraculously goes away. Heal me while I sleep so I wake up free.”
If this is what I am solely focused on, if this is the only option I’m fixated on, could I be missing out on other significant things in the process? Like, experiencing the reality of grace so I can be gracious in the midst of my suffering. Hope in the light of despair. Strength when overcome by weakness. Light in the darkness. Beauty where there are now ashes. Joy in the midst of impossibilities.
God is able to heal—that goes without saying. But these paradoxes are also miracles:
Beauty out of ashes,
Strength out of weakness,
The last shall be first,
The least shall be the greatest.
Small is big,
Weak is strong,
Become childlike to become the greatest in God’s kingdom,
Be meek and inherit the earth.
Die to live,
Give up to gain,
Turn the other cheek,
Walk in humility and be exalted.
Become a ‘slave to righteousness’ and find true freedom,
Be consumed by fire to become refined and pure,
Endure pain and be worked into the finest pearl,
Be pruned to bear the best fruit.
…he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
—2 Corinthians12:9 (NIV)
~shini abraham, ©2013, duco divina – contemplative doodling
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