Hope.
Monday, October 06, 2008
♥ Monday, October 06, 2008
These days, all one has to do is look around, and he or she'll find a world of despair. Its not just wars, its economy, floods, famine, children dying, parents crying, people wondering when is their turn for food, others wondering when is their turn to die. We, the youths, maybe do not know these world events, but turmoil is still everywhere. In work and in play, in relationships and in friendships, in family etc. Look around.
And in the midst of that, is a bunch of teens trying. Maybe to find some friends, maybe to fill up some time, maybe to do something meaningful, maybe to find some meaning. I do not know. But you find something. Something gentle and mysterious, something creative and something enduring that says, " this is the place i want to be" that says "i am myself here" that says "i think i've found something here". In their search, they have stumbled on a paradox. That arriving and travelling are the same. That the destination is the journey. That in trying, you become. In searching you find. One doesnt take place for the other to happen. One is the other. The verb and the noun can be interchangeable.
They have discovered that maybe miracles arent when statues produce milk or weep blood, but when someone forgives, and someone trusts. They chanced upon the fact that apparitions and images in the sky perhaps arent as amazing as a friend, disappointed and hurt, going against all odds to believe. They are at those junctures where the driving forces of life can sometimes be destructive, but who locks arms with the other, to brave them.
And what that does..is nothing short of a miracle in itself. It is hope.
Maybe that is what leaven means. To be raised, above the muck. To be pregnant with possibilities. To be bread, multiplied. And it all begins by daring to say that "it begins with me". Like last sunday, when the familiar and the unfamiliar coming together to "taste and see" and maybe "remember". It began with one who asked "what about them?". It began with one daring to say "we need to open our windows, to look out, and for others to look in." All you need, is one.
