You are sitting with her in the local park, it's almost 11pm, there are other people running around at that time of night, and there's also a group of other people sitting in a circle sharing some life story; yet there you are with her sitting in the silence, only the street lamp lighting up her face, the both of you quietly not speaking, it goes on. Every time you glance at her, you can't help to smile. The emotions shared through the silence is more than enough.
The best kind of relationship one can have is just being able to stay silent for long periods of time and yet stay more than connected.
That is the relationship we must try to attain with God.
The one thing that one can compare a relationship with God is a relationship with our loved one. The person we cherish most and adore and love can also be related to our relationship with our creator. It is hard to imagine or to allow such a relationship to manifest by itself but like how we love a person, loving God is not much different. It is safe to say that we can have an affair with Him and things will go as if we were with someone.
I seriously love the quote as said by Gilbert above, we don't love someone just based on certain facts or logic but because when we love we lose the most basic of reasoning sometimes and gain one of the hardest things a person can have: faith and hope. Yes, there are facts to love that person, like looks, how he or she treats you, finance, dependability but when feelings and emotions come in, sometimes all that seem irrational. That is the beauty of falling in love.
Think about it. How can this possible?
It is possible when we don't seek answers, not objective statements but a relationship where we learn to understand, tolerate and most of all to forgive each other. It is the same as having a relationship with God, we learn to understand His ways for us, we learn to tolerate all the things especially challenges that come our way, and also to forgive God in a way that sometimes we lose our trust in Him.
Learn to love God as you were to love your better half, and you will see things to be more of a two-way relationship rather than praying and receive nothing or being oblivious to how He speaks to us through everyday events.
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This will be the first part of my sharing of how can a relationship with God be similar with our partner, different yet also similar.
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