Solid ground

Sometimes we need to fall off our horse to realize that the ground we're treading on isn't solid.

No sides

Right side or left side, above or below. Does it really matter when we are with God?
Right or left, above or below. Attention to this shows that our focus is still on ourselves.
When we are with God, nothing else will matter because we already have God. We have everything. That is why men and women of God are the happiest people wherever or with whoever they are.

In an eternal embrace

God chooses us and invites us to stay with Him. God draws us close to His heart where we find rest and comfort. The closer we are to God in this embrace, the more our heartbeat becomes in harmony with God's heartbeat. When we respond with mercy and compassion, that is God's heart beating in our own heart.
Saint Augustine said that our hearts are restless until they rest in God. That is true; but I think God's heart is also restless until He draws all unto His own heart in an eternal embrace.

Faith matters

It is faith that makes all the difference in the way we see, understand and act in a situation.
Lord, increase my faith ...
  Where some people might see trash, may I discover a hidden treasure;
  Where some people might see meaningless suffering, may I see a call to growth;
  Where some people might see deprivation, may I see a choice for the essential;
  Where some might see defeat, may I see renunciation for a higher good.
Every choice we make is based on what really matters to us. The challenge is to ask ourselves whether at the point of death they would really matter.

God writes with crooked lines

We hear a lot the most common argument against God's existence: "If God exists, why does He allow suffering and death, especially of the innocent?"
The flaw in this argument is that we try or we want God to fit in with our categories, God in our own terms. If He doesn't fit in, He is not God. And that is the flaw. If God fits in with our categories, clearly and cleanly, is He really, truly God?
How many times have we experienced that what we once considered as an experience of suffering or as an experience that doesn't make sense, finally fits in. Finally it makes sense!
Just like the story of Joseph and his brothers... After years of solitude, exile and betrayal, it made sense...
"I am your brother Joseph, whom you once sold into Egypt. But now do not be distressed, and do not reproach yourselves for having sold me here. It was really for the sake of saving lives that God sent me here ahead of you."
We must be patient in living the questions because one day we will know the answers, or we won't even need answers at all.

The cross

Looking at the cross, Jesus seems to tell me:
   I did this for you,
   but I did this for them, too,
   so that you may learn to love
   whether they deserve it or not.