by: Gail S. Montero
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| Credits to: the Movie "Frozen" |
Please read Featured Gospel: John 11:1-45
Anna: Elsa?
Knock, knock, knock
o you wanna build a snowman?
… We used to be best buddies
And now we're not
I wish you would tell me why! …
Elsa: Go away, Anna
Anna: Okay, bye ...
[sobs & walks away ... “It doesn't have to be a snowman”…]
LAZARUS HAS BEEN DEAD in our commemoration of today’s gospel.
At times, WE ALSO ARE!
We seclude ourselves in the “kingdom of isolation”!
We take care of our fears, of our guilt, mistakes which we never share to get corrected!
Secrets we’ve kept even from our friends because we don’t wanna let them know
how weak we are that we never triumph over temptations!
Even if given the chance, we never open up because of our pride.
When asked to tell “stories”, we never grab the chance to be honest.
Not even when we are ambushed with “God’s message” which we have no choice but “hear”
-- we still shut not only our ears to listen, but moreso our “heart” to truly feel and get “touched”!
Then there – we create out own grave of justifications!
… and even if we keep things in secret, it’s stench/unpleasant smell
could no longer allow us to deny that “there is something wrong”!
… We used to be best buddies
And now we're not
I wish you would tell me why! …
Elsa: Go away, Anna
Anna: Okay, bye ...
[sobs & walks away ... “It doesn't have to be a snowman”…]
LAZARUS HAS BEEN DEAD in our commemoration of today’s gospel.
At times, WE ALSO ARE!
“we Conceal, we Don’t feel, we Don’t let them know”
We seclude ourselves in the “kingdom of isolation”!
We take care of our fears, of our guilt, mistakes which we never share to get corrected!
Secrets we’ve kept even from our friends because we don’t wanna let them know
how weak we are that we never triumph over temptations!
Even if given the chance, we never open up because of our pride.
When asked to tell “stories”, we never grab the chance to be honest.
Not even when we are ambushed with “God’s message” which we have no choice but “hear”
-- we still shut not only our ears to listen, but moreso our “heart” to truly feel and get “touched”!
Then there – we create out own grave of justifications!
… and even if we keep things in secret, it’s stench/unpleasant smell
could no longer allow us to deny that “there is something wrong”!
Subsequently, we either unconsciously become or even choose to make our hearts FROZEN –
that “FRAGILE cover-up” which DISCONNECTS us from IDEAL & WHOLESOME
“though not perfect” RELATIONSHIPS! -- – anytime AT RISK of becoming BROKEN!
JESUS ALSO WEPT, was perturbed and deeply troubled in the midst of Martha’s commendation: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
BUT with all assurance He asserted:
“I am the resurrection and the life;
whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,
and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.”
Dear friend, God has been reaching out to us all through out -- that’s why we still have those “annoying persons in our life” who doesn’t give up on us STILL until we could “HEAR this ONE BIG MESSAGE”:
“Today, if you hear His voice, harden not your heart.” -- Hebrews 3:15 .
that “FRAGILE cover-up” which DISCONNECTS us from IDEAL & WHOLESOME
“though not perfect” RELATIONSHIPS! -- – anytime AT RISK of becoming BROKEN!
JESUS ALSO WEPT, was perturbed and deeply troubled in the midst of Martha’s commendation: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
BUT with all assurance He asserted:
“I am the resurrection and the life;
whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live,
and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.”
Dear friend, God has been reaching out to us all through out -- that’s why we still have those “annoying persons in our life” who doesn’t give up on us STILL until we could “HEAR this ONE BIG MESSAGE”:
“God will not stop loving you until He totally fixes your brokenness.”
“Today, if you hear His voice, harden not your heart.” -- Hebrews 3:15 .
Never
tell God to “go away”…
And that “one person” who still keeps on
knocking in fulfillment of the task given by God,
give that person the chance to “thaw your
frozen heart” this time …
for you’ll never know when God would prompt her
to just walk away,
sobbing...
“Okay, bye!...It doesn't had to be a snowman!”#sunset
