in the crucible, uncrushed...
It's 2.28am and in the hypnotic glow of my computer screen, i'm thinking about the things my Dad said to me today.
Sometimes it seems that there are specific trials that keep repeating over and over in our life. Like the standard plot played out in every sci-fi show, we're caught in an infinite loop of history, repeating the same span of time until we decipher the clues and change fate.
In Hamlet's words we "suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." Sure life always doles out a measure of difficulties to each of us. To some, it even seems we get a greater portion than the others around us. But it's those two words that make all the difference. Our outrageous fortune. When we're crushed like Job, sitting in a pile of ash that was our life, it's the outrageous fortune, the epiphany, the promise that God won't let it crush us and will lift us up out of ruin, that makes up outrageous fortune and makes all our struggles worth while. There is light at the end of our tunnel vision.
Can you see it?
***
At the end of the day, no matter what kind of parents we have, all we want is to hear the words "i'm proud of you". The driving force behind the things we do is the same - our attempt to seek for approval, acceptance and recognition from the ones who raised us to be who we are today.
Sometimes it seems that there are specific trials that keep repeating over and over in our life. Like the standard plot played out in every sci-fi show, we're caught in an infinite loop of history, repeating the same span of time until we decipher the clues and change fate.
In Hamlet's words we "suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." Sure life always doles out a measure of difficulties to each of us. To some, it even seems we get a greater portion than the others around us. But it's those two words that make all the difference. Our outrageous fortune. When we're crushed like Job, sitting in a pile of ash that was our life, it's the outrageous fortune, the epiphany, the promise that God won't let it crush us and will lift us up out of ruin, that makes up outrageous fortune and makes all our struggles worth while. There is light at the end of our tunnel vision.
Can you see it?
***
At the end of the day, no matter what kind of parents we have, all we want is to hear the words "i'm proud of you". The driving force behind the things we do is the same - our attempt to seek for approval, acceptance and recognition from the ones who raised us to be who we are today.
