The Morning After..
What should one do after a tragic storm that has ripped off everything including loved ones? What should one do upon learning that his loved one has departed and will never see the person again? What should one do upon learning that he lost his job knowing that his wife is about to give birth and he has a house mortgage to pay, two other kids to send to school? How should one react to the news that his wife just fled with her lover? Or a wife just learned that all the while that she and her kids have been waiting for her husband to come home, he IS home with his lover? How would you feel when you learned that your long estranged aunt is sick and she has no one to rely on with the fact that she is single and at a retirable age? Or when you realize that work pressures are not just mere pressures but actually pressured for you to surrender and give up? What will you do if you loose a major deal? How can you take some of the pain of someone very dear to you who has just lost someone dearest to him? How can you comfort him knowing that no amount of comfort can ease the pain?
God is doing a lot of major "re-designing" lately… Harvests in his garden here and there, tragedies, pains, calamities, disasters and deaths.. All these have surrounded me for a month and it’s quite a mix of emotions to contain.. I have always wanted to write it all down but it has been quite hard to single out each feeling and write about it..
On my flight back to Manila, I saw this beautiful sunrise over Cebu.. I was on top of the clouds that partially show the beautiful islands beneath.. The sunrise was marvelous.. It gave me that inspiration that after all the darkness, dawn comes and a new day is about to unfold.. No great promises that this morning will take away all the pain and fix all that has been damaged, but I see this morning as a chance to pick up the pieces of what was left behind and start anew. No promises still that it will be a better day but I aim for it… and as i see the sun rising and i think of what i left back in cebu and what i am about to face in Manila, i thought that this will be a better day not just for me but for everyone for the reason that all of us who sees this marvelous sunrise and wakes up to this new day means that we are still alive in this world.. a world that might be full of pain, trials, sorrows and heartaches but this is also a world where we have the chance to live, to see and experience life.. God’s greatest gift to all of us.. without all these pains, we cannot be stronger.. without the hardships we can never be better for the future and without the trials we can never be stronger..
I pray that today will be a better day, not only for me but for all the people around me.. I pray that this day will be the first step to move on with life.. after the heavy storm, the great tragedy and the painfuls deaths of loved ones that surrounds me.. may this sunshine be the light to the path of people who are left groping in the dark due to the loss of their loved ones.. may this sunshine be a constant reminder to all who read this blog that AFTER EVERY STORM, THE SUN WILL SHINE.. A NEW TOMORROW WILL UNFOLD.. A NEW BEGINNING.. A CHANCE AT LIFE.. AND A SYMBOL OF GOD’S LOVE FOR ALL OF US.. HIS CHILDREN…
Have a blissful and wonderful week ahead..
