I make you blind so you can see I bring you darkness so you can seek My light for it is in darkness that you begin to see the Light eastwind journals 93 send this to friends via link – http://www.sisterraquel.com/2014/04/eastwind-journals-93
when I was in new jersey on a quick visit i met a Filipino single mother, jessica who lived with her only son, jason
jessica hardly knew me i dropped by just to pick up something for my sister but it was as if we were friends from way back she was hungry to talk to someone as much as i was and so she began unraveling her life to me
jason was the only son fatherless but rich because her mother had her own dental clinic
jason was spoiled by her mom he had his own car she cooked for him he never washed dishes she could not even ask him to mow the lawn
it was the only way she knew how to pour her love for him he was her entire world
jason was extremely bored with life jessica could sense it he looked far away for hours to the horizon lost in thought jessica kept asking the Lord what was His will what would He want jason to be
she asked jason if he wanted to try to get into harvard for his masters and doctorate jason was at the top in his class jason frowned he wanted something different from what all other kids go through after college
quite by accident jessica’s brother dropped by and told her how changed his daughter was after being a peace corps volunteer for a year when jessica suggested this to jason he jumped on it because he was bored it was a chance to see the outside world in no time he was on his way to guatemala
for the first time jason saw the meaning of poverty and pain in their rawest form immersed in a marginal farm community coming from the luxury of home in the states he was shocked to see kids who did not even have shoes who would miss class because they had no food
fighting the discomfort of mosquito bites and learning to sleep on a hard bed jason’s heart started to open up for the first time in his life he realized how much power he had to change people and the world
sometimes you stumble on a rare opportunity you never thought was so golden until you taste the bittersweet experience ALWAYS TAKE THE RISK TO GRAB SUCH GEMS that may never come by again pray for discernment and think it over well the road less travelled by can offer magic beyond your comprehension and imagination
his six months in guatemala was enough to change him forever he grew fond of the poor children when finally he had to go home he had silent tears as the children embraced him for the last time
coming home to new jersey the first thing jason asked her mom was if she wanted him to mow the lawn jessica fell into tears she knew guatemala gave her a better son she knew the Lord answered her prayers things were never the same jason was no longer a spoiled child
it takes awareness of suffering to awaken one’s restless soul it took poverty to enrich jason it took the darkness all around to make him realize that the light was inside him a long time ago he just ignored it
the Lord works in mysterious ways jessica prayed for a career for his son the Lord gave it on a silver platter jason would not exchange guatemala for a doctorate decree at harvard it was the best thing that ever happened to him he found a ‘career’
jason did not make a quick decision what to do with himself but he knew it would come in time sometimes it is premature to dive into a career and change your mind later sometimes the best way to plan is not to plan for a while at least when your spirit is still fermenting
this is because the basis of career decisions is theoretical rather than experiential theoretical wisdom at harvard could never match experiential wisdom in the ghettos of guatemala
my advise to parents don’t give your son a car as a graduation gift or a house as a wedding gift you are just enticing him more into the world of materialism that is plaguing our society today whose values destroy rather than build people intervene in your children’s spirituality
perhaps an air ticket to somewhere would open his eyes and open his soul what better gift can you give more spiritual than material
eastwind Bernie Lopez eastwindreplyctr@gmail.com
do not seek to understand incomprehensible mysteries such as how and when the rain and wind will come you know not the work of the Lord rather sow your seeds wherever you have land if you know not where the flood will fall let the Lord decide your fate and just do your part
ecclesiastes 11:1-8 / eastwind vanity of vanities, all things are vanity rivers go to the sea yet the sea is never full words are eloquent yet empty of meaning the eye is never satisfied, the ear hears a lot what is crooked cannot be made straightened what is missing cannot be supplied the greatest wisdom i have learned is that all wisdom is chasing the wind in much wisdom there is much sorrow he who strives for wisdom strives for grief ecclesiastes 1:1-8, 14-18
I am the Way and the Truth and the Life no one comes to the Father but through Me if you know Me then you know My Father
john 1:6-7
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