" The Lorie Project ": Endless Positivity - Mongol's Chronicle

" The Lorie Project ": Endless Positivity

Boy  :  Are you writing a story about what we've done? Is this a story about me?

Grandma : I am writing about you, actually, but more important than the words is the    pencil I'm using. I hope you'll be like this pencil when you grow up.'

Boy : But it's just like any pencil I've ever seen.

Grandma : That depends on how you look at things. It has five qualities which, if you manage to hang on to them, will make you a person who is always at peace with the world. 

• First quality : you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us according to His will.
• Second quality : now and then, I have to stop writing and use sharpener. That makes the pencil suffer a little, but afterwards, he's much sharper. So you, too, must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person.
• Third quality : the pencil always allows us to use an eraser to rub out any mistakes. This means that correcting something we did is not necessarily a bad thing; it helps to keep us on the road of justice.
• Fourth quality : what really matter in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.
• Finally, the pencil's fifth quality : it always leaves a a mark. In just the same way, you should know that everything you in life will leave a mark, so try to be conscious of that every action.'

from Paulo Coelho's - Like the Flowing River ( Thoughts and Reflections) 
- The Story of A Pencil

 Few days ago, I've  experienced disappointing events in which for a moment I've doubted God's loving power on Me. It is painful on my part and for quite sometime, I've resented talking to him and easily forgotten all those blessings and guidance He unselfishly given to me and to my family. Having eaten by my agony and despair, made me far from Him, and yet I find no peace inside and just a massive lost of tranquility.....

I didn't found the answers to my questions, nor did I gained any sense of security after hours of exploring and investigating. Then just a second, it strikes me, that the only way to end my incompleteness and loneliness, I have to talk to him. I need to make amend on things that I've done, words that I've spoken and damages that I've caused in my relationship with Him - and so I did what I think the best thing one should do in my position, I PRAY. 

Last night, as I watched Bruce Almighty in star movies, I realized that it is only through him I can achieve certain peacefulness and be at ease to my current situation despite of all the odds and failures I've encountered. Imagine me crying and sobbing in a  Jim Carrey flick, I'm just thankful that no one is around so no explanation was needed. 

Indeed, like the above story, we are all a pencil that possess five important qualities that needed to be reminded on it's good way's use. Each of us may have lost an important opportunities or tired of the endless waiting for our own dreams to be fulfilled or our own terms to be followed by, still its not an enough reason to cut our ties with Him. He may give us moments of sorrows and unbearable pains and even series of depressions, but we have to hang on to him, pray and ask him simply to pull us tightly and that everything in US will still be the same if not, to emerged better and stronger after  the emotional turmoil we've come to experience. After all, he will not put us in this situation if he thinks we cannot handle it or conquer it. Trials and obstacles are often given not to destroy a human being's heart but to better his/her own relationships to the Almighty.

At the moment, I may still have sets of unfulfilled goals and under achieved  dreams,  but hey that doesn't means I will turn my back on Him. I'm hanging on that simple thought that one day, wishes will be granted in his own ways and terms, and from that point,  mornings will be shinier,  silver linings are obviously present, and contentment is just around the corner....