May Jesus, the light of the world enlighten your life this Christmas and furthermore.
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Christmas wishes...
It's Christmas eve, the candles burn, the foams of the kitchen let me know a banquet is awaiting for me, the table is ready, and the cuttlery lies in it's position. Yeah, it's Christmas' dinner time with my closest friends. My Canadian brother Joel invited me to rejoice the birth of our Saviour together with the superb new couple which my friend Bas & Kim make. The food is awesome, not to mention the warm apple pie with the melting ice over it.
It's Christmas day and the whole family has gathered togeher in order to play some games, relax and eat tempting morsels of bread with all sort of apperitives. My aunt, after taking a refreshing walk with my uncle makes the dinner ready which once ready, we all together with both my cousins, and two other uncles begin to savour. The plentifulness of the food let me know how blessed we are. Not only was my stomach to the point of having no more, but was the sensation of a real Christmas being noticeably marked in all my senses as well.
It's the 2nd Christmas day [Dutch tradition]. This time while I'm at one of the most beautiful Christmas services in my church, Roos the daugther of a family which I regard as a 2nd family of mine, invites me to have dinner and the remaining hours of Christmas with them. Once again, I get the priviledge to sit at a table which has a place specifically reserved for me. No question that the bread stick covered by ham and the salad with nuts, grapes, and such delicatessen were the introduction to an exquisite Christmas meal.
That has been Christmas for me. God knew the pain I was going through due to the abscence of my family and "little treasure" whom were back in Bolivia. They were kept deep inside my heart although regardless, not next to my side during those moments.
God thought of me and took me in his arms giving me comfort, peace, and happiness by means of such blessed sharing moments altogether with those who were indeed around me. I praise God's name for he is Jehovah-Jireh, my provider, lover of my soul and above all, Saviour and redeemer who sent his one and only son born humbly in a manger eventually to be the humiliated and tortured with all the pain, agony, and loneliness which that cross brought to him only because of my sin.
What is love? God is love...
It's Christmas day and the whole family has gathered togeher in order to play some games, relax and eat tempting morsels of bread with all sort of apperitives. My aunt, after taking a refreshing walk with my uncle makes the dinner ready which once ready, we all together with both my cousins, and two other uncles begin to savour. The plentifulness of the food let me know how blessed we are. Not only was my stomach to the point of having no more, but was the sensation of a real Christmas being noticeably marked in all my senses as well.
It's the 2nd Christmas day [Dutch tradition]. This time while I'm at one of the most beautiful Christmas services in my church, Roos the daugther of a family which I regard as a 2nd family of mine, invites me to have dinner and the remaining hours of Christmas with them. Once again, I get the priviledge to sit at a table which has a place specifically reserved for me. No question that the bread stick covered by ham and the salad with nuts, grapes, and such delicatessen were the introduction to an exquisite Christmas meal.
That has been Christmas for me. God knew the pain I was going through due to the abscence of my family and "little treasure" whom were back in Bolivia. They were kept deep inside my heart although regardless, not next to my side during those moments.
God thought of me and took me in his arms giving me comfort, peace, and happiness by means of such blessed sharing moments altogether with those who were indeed around me. I praise God's name for he is Jehovah-Jireh, my provider, lover of my soul and above all, Saviour and redeemer who sent his one and only son born humbly in a manger eventually to be the humiliated and tortured with all the pain, agony, and loneliness which that cross brought to him only because of my sin.
What is love? God is love...
Saturday, December 11, 2004
The purpose
How many change their carreer from Electronics to Physiotherapy? I mean, think of that. It's got no sense at all. That's what I thought as well while taunting those who study Physio. However, electronics brought me no results, and a decision had to be made.
I was wondering from the beginning of my decision, "why that carreer and how did everything happen that way?" That way, the fact that my college is 100 meters from the sportcenter; the fact that I'm studying in the builiding I longed to study in; the fact that when looking for answers people where available guiding me to those answers at the very moment I needed them; the fact that one of them mentioned, "You're meant to be here". Yeah, but above all the fact that I, being a foreigner who can barely speak the language, someone who hasn't had a 'health' background in his entire life, and the least qualified person to ever be a physiotherapeut have been accepted out of the hundreds of people who have applied for this carreer! How can that be? You tell me, my opinion is God's hand working out his perfect purpose for my life once again. After last week's traineeship at a medical training center, I realized the reason for it. It's exactly what I need for my future life! No more dragging and pointless electronics for me, sports, physiotherapy, helping people, and in the midst of it all following God's way for my life: that's what gives all those "coincedences" sense to this whole situation. May God's name be glorified!
I was wondering from the beginning of my decision, "why that carreer and how did everything happen that way?" That way, the fact that my college is 100 meters from the sportcenter; the fact that I'm studying in the builiding I longed to study in; the fact that when looking for answers people where available guiding me to those answers at the very moment I needed them; the fact that one of them mentioned, "You're meant to be here". Yeah, but above all the fact that I, being a foreigner who can barely speak the language, someone who hasn't had a 'health' background in his entire life, and the least qualified person to ever be a physiotherapeut have been accepted out of the hundreds of people who have applied for this carreer! How can that be? You tell me, my opinion is God's hand working out his perfect purpose for my life once again. After last week's traineeship at a medical training center, I realized the reason for it. It's exactly what I need for my future life! No more dragging and pointless electronics for me, sports, physiotherapy, helping people, and in the midst of it all following God's way for my life: that's what gives all those "coincedences" sense to this whole situation. May God's name be glorified!
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