April 20 – Against the Wind
When things go against us, we lose hope, but kites fly against the wind, and planes take off against the wind, not with it. So in life when things are tough, you will get a special pair of wings to fly through that situation. It is often is tough times that we get supernatural grace and strength that otherwise we may not have.
In one event, when a man’s life was being threatened, and he knew he was going to die, he felt an extraordinary calm and peace, he had grace to die, and was ready. The next moment, there was a diversion and the man attempting to kill him ran away. The man suddenly felt his heart racing, and was suddenly frightened and ran and hid. His self defensive mechanisms were alive but also realized that that special grace for that tough time was now taken away.
The harder times we go through, the stronger we become, and also we get abundant grace to go through them. It is against the wind that we learn to fly, thus we should just relax during these difficulties and allow the wind to take us through to a higher realm.
At the same time, life is an act of balance, even as we fly, we need to keep our soul balanced and centered in the calm of our Creator or the “plane” will crash or we will swerve to one side too much. Balance is the key when we are flying. Sometimes, people are hyper in excesses in their outlook to life, and this breeds intolerances to other people and faiths, or to caste and color etc. The balancing act is to remember we are spirit, soul, and body and we have to feed all three accordingly in order to get the strength to “fly”.
Humans tend to live in excesses, either they indulge too much in the body and flesh, and neglect the spirit, or too much in the soul or either are so spiritual that they ignore everything and everyone because they cannot connect to people anymore. Hyper “religious” people are also very extremely judgmental. Spirituality is more of a connection to God while religiosity is a connection to traditions.
We all need one another as humans, we all need to help each other, but at the same time, we need our times alone to garner strength and wonderful periods of silent isolation which would bring us healing.
All in all, surrender and do not be afraid when everything seems to be going against you, just remember, that’s the time to brace yourself and rise up and fly! You will get tremendous peace when you start to rise up.
Rita F. Kurian
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