A perfect plan. It's what we know that Lord has for us when we begin our journeys here on earth. But what brings us to our different places and circumstances? Given the opportunity to "choose", why are some of us gifted with a wealth of opportunity and good fortune, while others seem to be set into worlds of inequity?
The human experience is a strange accumulation of what we are born with and what the world presents to us. It is what we do with all of this that determines many of our outcomes. Societies, cultures and family units provide us with schema that then determine our interpretations of reality. If you don't know what something is, can you miss it? If something or someone was never apart of you world, is your life 'lacking'?
It's been almost 20 years since I sat in wheel chair with the boy in that picture at my side. I sang the prophetic words in the song "Line Upon Line", with all my heart. But I had to grow up to understand what the words meant. Oh so true,
"Your problem is that, you want all the answers at once. Excuse the
example, but, Sir Galahad didn't find the Holy Grail in one
afternoon...
Line upon line, precept on precept
That is how He lifts us
That is how He teaches His children.
Line upon line, precept on precept
Like a summer shower
Giving us each hour His wisdom.
If we are patient we shall see
How the pieces fit together in harmony.
We'll know who we are in this big universe
And then we'll live with Him forever!
Line upon line, precept on precept
That is how He lifts us
That is how He teaches His children.
Line upon line, precept on precept
Like a summer shower
Giving us each hour His wisdom.
It's like, watching the stars
appear at night. First, just one little light
shines over there in the
western sky. And, then another, and another, until
finally...Well look for
yourself Jimmy. A whole, wonderful, blazing universe. And it began with just one
little star.I still have a problem with that patience thing.
