Waste or For Recycling?

Did you know that there is an island of trash swimming around the Pacific Ocean? Yesterday I was reading about it. It made me ponder about the amounts of “trash” swimming inside of us without any restraint. Moreover, as I was reading the article, I found myself thinking: “this rubbish should be picked up and recycled.” Then I thought of so many moments and things in my own life that I do not recycle. I mean, all that useless resentments, old hurts, old habits, etc.

Hence, the title of this blog, are those things a waste or just in need of recycling? Can they be recycled? Do we have the means to transform a bad experience into something new?

According to God we do. Everything is an opportunity. Nothing is a waste in our lives. Good things give us immediate joy, peace, happiness, strength, and so on. Bad times teach us lots about the world, ourselves and strengths we didn’t know we had. Failures can make us more understanding with other people’s struggles, more merciful, able to forgive other’s failures…

So I found myself musing on how to do this recycling. My answer came from the Word of God; in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells the disciples about the problems they will face; he says… “You will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, as evidence to them and to the gentiles (Matthew 10,18)” As ordinary people, the only way to speak to governors and kings about Christ was to be the prisoner in a trial. Looking back in my life I realized that much of that “trash” made me able to do things that otherwise I would never have been able to do. Thanks to God we have the capacity to recycle trash into a new life.

who are you not to be?

They always say that the greatest "achievement" of XXth century is to have convinced us of being no-one. This poem reminds me that God made us well, that when He saw that everything was good he was right. I hope you like it.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” (Marianne Williamson)

And this is the one who said it first...Genesis, 1, 27-31 God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them... God saw all he had made, and indeed it was very good

Hi… Susan Boyle. I have been thinking about her all day. I was really impressed by the whole thing. After watching the video in YouTube I was left amazed and happy, with a good feeling inside. It is really uplifting when good things happen to normal people. She looks like many women I cross on the street. And there she was, she is no actress, no dancer, no singer… and surprising. Good on you, Susan, both because of your courage to go to the program and because of your success. It is a pity she had to wait for so long. How many people never saw the diamond in the rock?

Here is the reading that has been in my mind all day long
“but The Lord said to Samuel, 'Take no notice of his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him; God does not see as human beings see; they look at appearances but The Lord looks at the heart.'(1 Samuel, 16: 1-13)