so how has God touched me today? or this week? or this month so far?
hmmm. i think He has worked in many little ways, and He's been present in small little ways too :) i guess at this point i must share with you abt this little book i've been reading (some of u may already know it cos i've been going on and on abt this magnificent book :P) called "The Reed of God" by Caryll Houselander :D it's an easy read, quite light on the language, but deep in the thinking behind the words. i have to bring up this book cos i was reminded of sth i read from it yesterday when i met certain ppl :P
in this chapter called "Our Seeking", she writes:
God's purpose is love; how to win the human heart, how to give it life.and that's the feeling i felt yesterday, this quickening. :) i met a little boy yesterday while i was at csc adoration room, and my heart leapt for joy! really! he is only 5 years old, and he came into the chapel with his parents and happily took a cushion and sat in front of the Blessed Sacrament quietly. :) :) :) i was filled with joy also because i know this little boy--i'd babysitted him for the past 2 months at st anne's church every tues while his parents attended LISS. and seeing him here at csc, quietly praying with his parents, is just amazing! i dun think i stepped into a chapel at that age lor. lol.
There could not be a more ingenious way than the one He has devised, His way of hiding Himself in us, revealing His presence in our necessities, so that we can only find him by obeying His commandment: "Little children, love one another!"
He hides and can be found, not only in a child, but in your child; not only in a friend, but your friend; not only in a servant, but your servant: could there be an easier access to Him than your child, your friend, your servant?...
... It is impossible to define exactly why we love when we do, but it is easy to point to those things which do compel us to remain with certain people and from which love almost certainly results. They are: fellow feeling, shared difficulties, knowing that something is wanted which it is in our power to give, knowing ourselves to be needed, doing the same work, facing the same perils, enduring the same hardships--such things provide the soil in which love can take root.
Love is most likely of all to spring from another's need of us, and the fact of spending ourselves for another always generates new life in us.
... It is very often the response in ourselves that tells us that we have found the lost Child, that one of those glimpses of Him which sweeten life has been vouchsafed to us. usually, it is not by anything outward that we recognise Him, but by a sudden rush and sweetness of life within us like the quickening of the unborn St John the Baptist, when he recognised the unborn Christ in Mary's womb.
Thus it is that when we find Him in others we also find Him in ourselves.
and looking at him, i was reminded of the passage above, abt finding Jesus in the people around us. and knowing from my response, my this leap of joy in my heart, this sudden rush of sweetness and joy within, i know that i found Jesus in this little boy Jared. :) and what a joy! he really made my day. :D i love small children! XD
i love that God always seem to come to us in the ppl we least expect, in situations we are least prepared for. He is always the God of surprises :P and i thanked God for that little glimpse of Him in this beautiful child Jared. i can't explain why i felt so happy just seeing him.. i think perhaps i do love him :P the strange thing is, Jared will prob never know how much joy he brings to me, and he will prob forget me as he grows up. but for me, the exp of having spent time with him, will stay with me for some time yet :)
we dunno whose life we will impact along the way just doing the very ordinary things of our lives. let's keep smiling and doing good anyway. ;)
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