I watched this child at play, when he was enthusiastically engaged in finding the slot for each block, which had different shapes. He took a while before he placed back all the fifteen blocks. He looked most pleased with himself. He did it by moving the blocks against the different slots till he found the correct slot for that block. He could not have identified the shapes by sight as he was behind his age developmentally.
He was learning to post the blocks by moving the blocks form one slot to the other.
Today being the last day of the year 2012, we need to associate or connect our experiences with their intended meaning, rather than leave them as odd events in our lives. We need to revisit our experiences to view them from different angles to discover meaning hidden or concealed beneath the obvious.
I heard this story from a mother, who agonised over her son not getting admission in a prestigious school for his high school education. He had to be content to study in the state syllabus in a lesser known school. But during the five years at school, he did well academically, in sports, dramatics and social service activities. He left the school as the best outgoing student. For five years the mother lamented about his failure to secure admission in the school of choice. Only after her son distinguished himself in the school, she realised that it was good for him to have been where he was. It took her five years to find a new meaning or purpose from her disappointment.
We need to move around our experiences and look at them from different vantage points to get a glimpse of the larger truth.
Our disappointments can be redeeming occasions and our difficult experiences pregnant with meaning beyond the visible.
God of our lives is our anchor because of which every experience can be a path finder for us!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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