Up until 5 minutes ago, I had been having what could adequately be described as a ‘bad day.’ It was hard to wake up in the morning to read missiles of negativity in the form of Facebook notifications. I shook my head in disbelief knowing that someone, somewhere, was cooking up fitna and feeding it to the masses. “Why would anyone do this?” I asked myself, “Where do people get the time?” These clearly being rhetorical questions, I got no answers. Only a dead silence and an air so full of sadness, it almost choked me. As the day wore on, I carried my heart ache with me. I busied myself with work but I could not shake it off me. Just as I was about to close off my Facebook in an attempt to shut off the world, I found this on my newsfeed: “Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.” Haruki Murakami I stared at it for a good sixty seconds. “Of course!” I thought to myself. You see, what I realized through those words is that God really doesn’t hand things down to you on a silver platter. I had been praying for patience and serenity. What I got instead was tumultuous conversations and conflict. Because how else would I learn tolerance if I wasn’t exposed to intolerance, and how else would I learn peace if I wasn’t exposed to war? It takes dark to know what light is. It takes night to know the day. It takes one to know the other. What I am filled now with is an overwhelming sense of gratitude for everything. God answered my prayers after all.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:43:47 +0000
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