Why Loneliness? Why Suffering? Why Me?

“If things happened it is indeed for a reason. If it did not happen it was never destined to…”

Ancient Words, so they say are ever true!!! No matter how best a person gives to win the treasured prize, if life does not hold the same for you, “It will not happen”. It’s absolutely not your fault if your loved ones walk out of your life or if your kids no longer respond back to your love or if you are not on a right job that can satiate your living/core competencies. Whatever the boulevard of Broken Dreams is, trust that everything happens for Destiny’s own reason. Wisdom lies with a person who patiently endures these rainy days until FRESH spring blossoms up!!!

One may ask, but why rainy days??? Why me? How long? With an amateur knowledge that I have, I can sketch few reasons.

1. Sin Leads to Suffering: First, Foremost and the ONLY law of life. “What goes around will have to come around”. What in eating just a Fruit? It was a fruit of knowledge of good and bad, indeed. Further to justify, God already did have a plan to give both Fruit of knowledge of good and bad and Fruit of eternal life to Mankind. So what was wrong for Adam and Eve, to eat it? Yes the voice that whispers deep inside of you now is right. Disobedience is a sin! Failing to adhere to God’s words is a transgression. Infatuated to enjoy Blessings ahead of God’s appointed time is felony; to Lusting for a fruit which was pleasing to eyes and disregarding your responsibilities and commitment to God (and family) is crime. Cursing someone of death for eating just a fruit may sound absurd, but God is too righteous to just discount or oversee one’s flaws. It may not even look like a sin to you, it may be a fully accepted human norm, but in Destiny’s eye, “if one has sowed he has to reap for I – Good or bad”.

· Good news: If there are rainy days, then spring would sprout up. Patiently endure the consequences God will let time turn around for you and “FRESH LIFE” will blossom. The best part of chastising is that the old baggage of the past would be traced away so completely, that whatever happened will be like a dream. It would feel so strange that you may not even believe that you did those things in the past.

· Bad News: Chastising is a space that destiny gives for one to repent. If one does not realize the purpose of God during the lonely and reproachable times, life would be a woe. Your past will continue to haunt you throughout your lifetime and you would feel lost in no man’s island. Specifically, quoting, if one does not leave the dirty garment of bad past away, endure chastising and surrender to Christ’s plan, be sure, the road ahead will be bumpier. Life will be a desert! Friends and loved ones around will care for dogs and plants, but your life will they mock and make a laughing stock!! Life will be a bed of thorns and afterlife will be eternal blazing fire!

2. Just Time’s Play: “To ever thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven….He (God) hath set the world in time’s Heart” So says, the wise man Solomon. How many times, do we give our best only to see people failing to reciprocate fairly? In Corporate world, performance is the key. They say, It is a Wild race to outsmart and get ahead of the line. Now, logically figuring it out if an organization consolidates of these so called individual performances, it should soar up to heights of globally competing against the Forbes and Fortune peers. It doesn’t happen, does it? So what are we missing in-between? I’ll let you frame your own answers, but the base is if you are not promoted or not recognized within your organization doesn’t mean that your performance is low! In effect your performance may be the best though you are an unsung hero. Year 2008 recession created a world of unemployed! Loyalty champions who gave their half lifetime for their Company were shown the door. Not to forget other personal peripheries one encounters with the world of cynical folks. If your loved one walked away or you are not being treated fairly or not on the right job or if life’s a thorn, remember it’s just times play. Do not try hard to work against the wind of life, let go or silently hold on until wheel turns your side. Yeah, sure It will turn your Side, in due Season! It’s nature law to let man experience all life’s absolutes, so to evolve his own balance!

· Good news: Every time that refrains from embracing is duly followed with a time to embrace. A time to loose with a time to get. Experiencing diverse absolutes of life evolves meaning to one’s existence!! Life’s own lessons will be treasured and sense of being self-conscious will evolve. All things happen for good.

· Bad news: During Good times, when man is abundantly blessed, it is his responsibility to share the happiness and fruits of life to those around. There is no good in writing off a $$$$ Check to “world known – well-renowned” charity Foundation and yet be ignorant of a hungry beggar or destitute woman in your own neighborhood. Be careful, to be considerate during Good times!! Each man is accountable and destiny will fairly repay each man, his action.

3. Good for those around you: To be Continued

4. All for God’s Glory: To be Continued

Word of Chirst in need is Aid, Indeed

November 2002. The only year-end term, when clouds flushes all its moisture to mellow down the otherwise hot, hotter, hottest seasons of Chennai. Weather chill and refreshing, the roads dusty and logged, she felt warm, as sands aroma, when it rained spread around. Mellissa was just another ordinary, with mere wishes and dreams and loads of devotion in her Maker. Yet, both were just mere empty sentiments, for most of her actions seemed like a wayward. At twenty –one, work to her was more of a hobby than a career plan or earning a living. A telesales executive selling for AT&T, Sprint and T-mobile plans, each of her work day went by chanting the online phone script all day. West, East, Central or Pacific, all folks in US had one thing wish common – “No Solicitation calls!!!” Voicemails, Hang ups, Irate Shouts, Request for “do not call list” enrolls, were dull senseless tasks that filled each day. On a particular showery day, as Mellissa made it to carry out the futile tasks at work, she waited as that one exceptional distinctive call dialed by the IVR landed to an East Coast resident. Call went through, the pitch was raised and free hand phone jazz was tipped to be sold. But, the Voice from the other side came out Fuming, foul, irate and loud . Wanting to Hard-sell to meet the numbers of the day, tis telesales executive went on and on with the sales pitch only for the old New Yoker in her near 50’s to get enraged about the Memorized one-line pitch. The New Yorker did not hang up, nor did she request to be enrolled on a do not call list, but choose take out all her life’s anger on the call. She persistently fumed her words of anger and frustration over this solicitation call. Mellissa trying to be courteous listened as the lady continued with her resentment. Anger turned to irate, irate turned to fury, fury to resentment and resentment to tears!! Tears! Yes Tears! Here is why - The old Lady was in her late 50’s, independent enough to earn her living. “I do not have the money to run this day, how do you expect to sell further your rubbish plan” She lamented. “Sell to someone else, it may click, I would not be able to be of any use to you”, her words now sounded sadly deprived. Mellissa felt it was time to shrug away the stupid one-line sales pitch, and put on her natural self. The Old lady continued to lament more of her being caught within nets of debts and how much her life has turned to a ruin. She had no soul beside her for help and the debts have gone overhead that it was completely wild out of hand. “Mam, there is a Way out! There is a God of Impossibilities. He is Christ!” The old lady now smiled out her hopeless sigh, as Mellissa repeated the usual words of a preacher. “Whatever, be your problem and no matter what situation you are in please Pray! You will see the debts going fully away from your Life”, this time old lady was filled with mixed emotions of despair, dissatisfaction and tears. “He cares for you, Mam. Don’t Give up too easily! Just make that one prayer, you will see Miracles”, “Whatever!!” the old lady sighed again, as Melissa spoke about Christ’s providence for her need. The call filled with rage, Tears, Despair and empathy had to conclude with a Hopeless sigh and it concluded. Not knowing what else can be done, Mellissa whispered a silent prayer to Jesus Christ, for the poor helpless Old New Yorker.

Days passed, so did two years, with years more sins, job swaps and windmills of lifetime changes! December 2004, so far away from the nerd years of 2002, Mellisa once received a mail package, quickly followed up with phone call on her personal Phone number. Trying to re-collect, she enquired for more details of this American calling on her cell phone- for she never knew any American personally. She called out her “real name” and said “don’t you remember me? You made so much of a change with that sales call of yours!”. Little was this expected!! “How on earth did she trace a address and phone number of an ex-employee of an outsourcing firm, way far from her Country and with just a pseudo name??”, Mellisa gasped with surprise!! She was happy to hear from the Old lady though, coz she was the very last person (till 2004) that she has advocated Christ to. The Old American lady, all happy and excited, thanked Mellisa for her comforting words in the past. She went on to say how she accepted Christ and how He has helped her over time with the tangled debts. She did claim that she has not fully got out of the debts, but through the Grace of Christ, she has been able to smoothly mange two years. She was nearing her pay-off of all her loans! Her mail package contained a Christmas card, Thank you letter and contact details. Mellisa could not contain her gratitude towards God for helping this old lady. It felt more like a hard pinch, especially when life had sucked her into to the sinful ways of the world. But she promptly thanked Jesus Christ (now who was more of a strange God to Mellisa– for personal reasons) and moved on with life.

There is no trace or remembrance of the old Lady, not even her name!! Not sure if she is Alive or Dead! But the Truth Remains, The old lady in her 50’s (as best she could be identified) was saved that day through Christ. The job was useless and futile, but Mellisa could have been placed on that job on that day particularly to re-Instate Christ’s Providence for the old lady. Thanks to her for letting Mellisa know after years, otherwise, she would have never knew that her plain words worked to be saving instruments of redemption by Christ. Hope, Mellisa gets to meet the old New Yorker in Heaven someday J

Lesson: Boldly proclaim Christ to those in need. One can never imagine what fruits a plain word of Gospel could Yield. I’ve had testimonies as to how suicides were stopped, marriages were sustained, and addictions were set free, through those right words at the right time. So, as the Holy Spirit leads, boldly (and of course, appropriately) reassure His ray of hope.