Friday, March 19, 2010

Crisis and a Blessing?


Only God can do it... send a blessing wrapped up in a crisis.

Few years ago, when I was facing a crisis at work I thought everything was over. But it was the very crisis that brought me to where I am today in my relationship with God, His mission for me, and the dream job that I have today.

Jesus is the gift that came wrapped up in a crisis into the womb of Mary, the Mother of God.

The death of Jesus on the cross is a gift wrapped up in a crisis.

The God who says "My ways are not your ways" sends us gifts wrapped up in crisis.

The Blessed Mother who was overshadowed by the Most High saw beyond the crisis in her life to the blessing God sent for the entire human kind, that made her sing and glorify the Lord.

As I started to learn the ways of God, there is a story that comes to my mind whenever things don't turn out the way we want. It is called "The Pony and the Dung Heap"... the story says, when the little girl was taken to a room full of horse dung she got excited and shouted "with all this dung, there must be a pony in here somewhere".

Last November, the day before the Four Steps Retreat when we went to the church in the evening to set up the hall and the sound equipment, we learnt we did not have access to the sound equipment, nor a room we planned to use if we run out of space in the hall. The Parish Office was closed for the long weekend, and there was no one we could turn to. All we could do was enter into prayer. As we entered into prayer, remembering the moments in our lives where God changed every crisis into a blessing and glorifying HIM, praising HIM for what HE did in the past, someone managed to contact the Parish Secretary and she agreed to cancel her plans for that evening and come and get us the necessary keys. While talking to her we learnt that there was going to be a large number of people coming for the retreat, and the parish hall and the room will not be enough. The nice lady, on her own contacted the Parish Priest who was more than willing to accommodate us, and made it possible for us to use the church instead! Another Blessing wrapped up in a crisis.

The crisis that God allows to come into our lives is only a wrapping paper that wraps a greater blessing beyond what we could ever think of.

May the Holy Spirit open our eyes to see beyond the crisis and rejoice in the blessing that is about to unfold. May we realise that "with all this dung, there must be a pony in here somewhere".



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