Just in front of our gate before, there were bamboos towering over our two storey house. Those bamboos stood still even after a super typhoon came, uprooting the trees, flattening our houses to the ground and killing thousands of our people.
The secret of bamboo is in its character. It is pliant: when the wind blows, it does not resist; it dances with it. While some trees take pride in their unbendable strength, It bends and bows itself to heaven. Another secret of its staying power is that they grow in groups.
People who understood this survived storms in life with more grace and poise.
There are things in life that are given, constant. We can’t change them. And the only thing we can change is the way we look at them.
Once we see storms as a punishment of God, rather than an opportunity for change and growth, we are doomed for uprooting. A storm in life is a signal that something is not right and that we need to adjust. A storm in life is a sign that God wants to align us, and that we need to bend.
Like bamboos we need to bow down to Heaven and stay together with our love ones to survive to see the rainbows…
Dear God,
Help us to see Jesus
Walking behind the storms of our lives.
Give us the strength to bend
And stay together
As we wait for the rainbow of your Promise,
In Jesus Name.
Amen…
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