THESE MORSELS OF PAIN ...

   SO OFTEN WE HEAR SERMONS, PREACHINGS ON THE SUFFERING, THE PAIN, THE HARDSHIPS AND THE DEPRIVATIONS. HOW THE SICK, THE UNWANTED, THE DEPRIVED AND UNDER-PRIVILEGED NEED US THE BLESSED CHOSEN ONES OF GOD, TO ASSIST, CARE AND SUCCOR, TO LESSEN THE PAIN, HEAL THE WOUNDS, PROVIDE BALM TO SOOTH THE HURTS. 

NOT LEAST, THE COMMISSION TO LIVE AND ACT AS CHRIST. TO GIVE ALL, ALL OUR LIVES, THAT THE LESS FORTUNATE, THE  ONES IN PAIN, IN MISERY, IN DARKNESS AND IN EARTHLY BONDED HELL, MAY HAVE THEIR LOAD LIGHTENED.

WE ARE CALLED DAILY ACROSS ALL CHRISTIANITY TO FREE THE PRISONERS, TO WALK THE LAME, TO HEAL THE SICK. TO DO AS CHRIST DID. 

IN THE AFTERMATH OF DISASTERS WHETHER NATURAL OR MAN MADE, WE HEAR SUCH CALLS, FROM OUR BELOVED LEADERS AND FROM OUR HEART.

WE TEND TO LOSE SIGHT OVER WHAT WE ARE CALLED FOR. 

IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING HUMAN SUFFERING IN EVERY FORM, WE LOSE SIGHT OF THE GRAND PLAN. 

IN OUR VALIANT THOUGH VAIN ATTEMPTS, AND THE CALL TO ACT OUT OUR CHRISTIANESS, WE LOSE TRACK OF THE DIRECTION.

WE LOSE SIGHT OF THE GREAT PURPOSE.

IT IS NOT ABOUT THE PAIN. 

NEITHER IS IT ABOUT INJUSTICE.

IT IS NOT ABOUT THE SENSELESS LOSS OF LIVES.

IT IS NOT ABOUT WHO ARE MARGINALISED.

IT IS NOT ABOUT THOSE DEPRIVED, THE UNBORN ABORTED.

NOT ABOUT HOW MANY WERE KILLED BY MAN OR NATURE.

NOT ABOUT THOSE ABUSED OR VICTIMISED.

NEITHER IS IT ABOUT THE SEEMING UNFAIRNESS.

NOR ABOUT THE UNWARRANTED CRUELTY TO MAN BY MAN.

IT IS NOT ABOUT ALL THE TREES, OR THE WOOD.

NOR THE SPECIES THAT WENT EXTINCT.

IT DEFINITELY IS NOT ABOUT MOST OF THE CONCERNS MAN HAD BEEN CONCERNED WITH.

IT IS ABOUT THE ENTIRE FOREST -THE WHOLE OF LIFE. 

IT IS ABOUT THE GRAND PLAN

IT IS ABOUT WHAT LIES BEYOND THE DARKNESS THAT SEEM TO BE EVERYWHERE. 

DISMAY NOT AT THE IMPOSSIBILITY, THE ENORMITY AND INSURMOUNTABILITY OF THE TASK AT HAND. 

FOR HIS WILL TO BE, FOR HIS KINGDOM TO COME, THESE BAD STUFF, THE EXTREME UNPLEASENTNESS, THESE TORTUOUS EMOTIONS OF HEART RENDING SEVERITY, THESE BITTER GALL DAILY SERVED; THESE ARE NECESSARY.

FROM SUCH MORSELS OF PAIN, SUCH SLICES OF SUFFERING AND CRUMBS OF GRIEF WILL COME THE SWEET, EXOTIC SPIRITUAL FULFILLMENT OF GRANDEUR WHEN THE MOMENT MATURES.

OUR TEAR-STAINED, BLOOD - ENCRUSTED, HEART-WRENCHED, BITTER, INSIGNIFICANT AND SEEMINGLY MEANINGLESS ATTEMPTS AT LIFTING THE INSURMOUNTABLE SUFFERING, GRIEF AND PAIN… WILL BE TURNED INTO UNCONTAINABLE JOY, CELEBRATION & REJOICING ETERNAL  AT THE GRAND BANQUET OF THE HEAVENLY FEAST WITH OUR KING.

YOU ARE INVITED.