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Whater shortage in Heaven????
The alarm rang and rang and kept ringing for almost 15 minutes, but Angie was so tired that she didn’t even hear it ringing. When she finally woke up, she realized that she was late for work. She knew that whatever she is going to do she will be at least 30 to 45 minutes late. After a few minutes of inner struggle she managed to pull herself out of bed and to walk to the bathroom, only to realize that she didn’t have any drop of water…
– What? Water? Where does she live?
* I thought she was in heaven…
– Actually she does work at the Beautiful univeristy of Heaven and she also lives in Heaven.
* Do they have water shortage in heaven? Do they have inner struggle problems in heaven?
– Well… yes… they do… those problems exist almost everywhere…. I know for sure that in Beirut it is becoming a rule (and not an exception) to have water shortage. And I also know that although Lebanon is the richest place in the Middle East in water, this doesn’t imply that the Lebanese people are having enough water to drink or to use. It means nothing actually to have many rivers, or to have a Mediterranean weather or to even be in one of the most fertile regions in the world. It means nothing actually like almost everything and anything in the world. If you work in a restaurant, does this mean that you are never hungry? If all the people around you have sight problems and need to wear glasses, does this mean that you have sight problems? If all the people around you are wearing comfortable shoes, does this mean that your shoes are comfortable ?
If you allow me, I will open a small parenthesis and I will start asking questions because I am fond of questions. And since I am not very happy today, probably if I start asking questions, I will feel a little bit different (happier perhaps). If you have answers please feel free to post them, if you don’t it is ok (really, it is ok)…
What does it mean to love someone? (and please don’t consider my question as a naïve question, or simple or easy or straightforward… and please don’t start judging… and I beg you PLEASE don’t put me or my question in a box). What does the expression “let’s God’s will prevail” ? Does it mean that we won’t plan ahead, or make plans, or organize ourselves, or think about our future? Does it mean that we will walk blindly leaning on things and on people? Does it mean, that no matter what, God will guide us in life? Does it mean that we are supposed to spend a couple of hours, days, weeks or months without water? … but how do we become responsible and proactive? Don’t we need to go out there and do something ?
Did you like this post? Would you like to read more about Angie? Please click on the following links to read previous posts:
– What on earth am I doing here?
– Theory, practice and understanding
– A window? What does a window have to do with anything?
(By Zeina Gabriel)
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Hello Caren 🙂
Thank you very much for your comment 🙂 I really like what you wrote 🙂
I have a few questions. Where is God? Why are we free but belonging to God? Why are we His (property)? Why is it that the future is not ours? If we don’t choose how our life is going to be, who will? What is the point of being responsible and proactive if we can’t choose that?
Thanks a million 🙂
Zeina 🙂
I came to believe that when we love, it is that we are expressing a yearning for The Divine, and the act of love we perform, regardless of its various forms, will lift us up closer to the lofty heights of Him whom our souls are yearning for. So to love someone, is to make steps up the ladder…
God created us as free willing responsible creatures, so that we take responsibility of our own decisions and actions. But He is all-knowing so He knows what we will do before we do it. And He is all-mighty so He can “interfere” in our affairs when He wishes to. We belong to God, we are His, and to Him we shall return, so can’t we find in ourselves to allow our own creator some “status” above ours! It is our duty towards ourselves that we are aware of our being and of our creator’s being, because this would allow us to know better what to plan for and how, keeping in mind that our plan may or may not work as we expect it to, be it for unforeseen events or simply mis-foreseen. The future is not ours and is not for us to foresee, but surely that does not mean that we should walk blindly around. What is our use if we are to pretend we are blind or even worse blindfolded! How are we to walk blindly when we have been endowed with sight! Even foresight! God guides those whose hearts seek his guidance. We should do – act – work … God is almighty all-wise.
God’s will is not to sit and wait for plans and not act proactively. God’s will for us is to keep struggling and striving for a better life and never stop or quit. This is God’s Will and it shall be done.
Thank you Peter 🙂 You are totally right 🙂 Let us become proactive and responsible 🙂 let us change our lives 🙂
Take care
Zeina 🙂
Dear, you are right, we need to go out there and do things about things…blame it all on god is a sort of escapism as i see it, The thing is Zeina, theres a great deal of misconception that god represnts only the beautiful things, this is how we were brought to believe, we dumped everything we labeled as “not good” on the devil, if we look penetratingly, god is as much in the presence of water as in the absence of it, as much in the joys of heart as in the heartaches, and this is no poetry, because if you look around, its easier to believe that this world is managed by the devil, at3it el may wel kahraba la 7ala betkaffi…as i see it its a synthesis of man and god, the less we are full of ourselves the more god is present, and more we are full of ourselves the less god is present, its purely relative…
Hello Ali 🙂
Thank you very much for your message 🙂 You are totally right 🙂
Thanks a million for your beautiful words and for the reminder that God is everywhere and in everything 🙂 Good and bad are relative, ups and downs are also relative 🙂
Have an amazing day 🙂 and thanks again 🙂
Zeina 🙂
Well it really shows that you aren’t in a good mood today 😉
Take a deep breath, have a walk in the mountains, try to clear your head and you might find some answers to your questions! But if you don’t, don’t be frustrated because that’s Life!!
Hello Chantal,
Thank you very much for your message. Yes, you are right, I wasn’t very happy when I wrote this post 🙂 I am feeling much better now 🙂 Thank you for the advice I will try to follow it as much as I can 🙂 By the way, do you think that some questions don’t have answers? ummm… why? why some questions don’t have answers ? Maybe they do have answers but not where we are looking, what do you think?
Thanks a million 🙂
Zeina 🙂