Moments of Grace... Moments of Love and Healing (2)

Moments of Grace… Moments of Love and Healing by Evelyn Jo Lockert

How do we fine-tune in then? If there is somebody we know to whom we are attracted, perhaps because we like what we see, our normal course of action would be to try to know that person better and to spend more time with him/her. As we get to accept and appreciate his/her person, as this relationship develops and grows, isn’t it a fact that intuitively, at times, we know, even without any spoken word, what the other person wants, what he/she is feeling, what message he/she wants to convey to us?

When we, therefore, take conscious efforts to know, to spend time, with this Helper, this Comforter within us, aren’t we fine-tuning to Him? Eventually then, we would know, intuitively, what He wants us to do, where He wants to lead us.

It only needs our cooperation and our decision to spend time with Him. If we want to be led by Him, we must surrender completely to Him. But the realization that there is Someone Who continually, unceasingly, wants to nurture us, love us, and heal us of our brokenness often, paradoxically, brings us face to face with our own laziness, our resistance to His love.

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It is, indeed, a paradox that we want to love and be loved, yet we shy away from, we avoid, what it takes to love and to be loving… because of our lack of faith and our propensity toward laziness.

For, to listen to the “God in us” is to put in conscious effort, to decide between good and evil, and for us who often take the line of least resistance, this could become soul-wrenching experiences.

To put in time with this “God in us” is a test of our faith. Is He truly within me? If He is, then why does He seem to be nowhere at times? Why does He allow this suffering, this deprivation, in my life? If only we could remind ourselves constantly that He indeed is the God of love and, as such, He cannot do otherwise but love us, no matter what problems and pains we may have to go through, because, from these, we shall emerge better, more authentically- loving people. Indeed, where is our faith when we cannot seem to accept His word when He tells us that all things work for our good?

During these times when our faith wavers, perhaps it would be good to recall some events in our past where there was so much pain, yet, in following that inner voice of goodness and truth, the deaths we suffered became our resurrections.