“Sometimes life breaks us; but some become stronger in the broken places”
Hemingway in words and the Japanese in the art form Kintsugi illustrate this beautifully.
For proof: we need only look in the world to see this is true amongst all nations, races, colours, and creeds.
Hope: is faith in the future; in what is yet to begin; what is yet to be; and what is yet to become of me. Faith is faith in what is, and has been. For human beings to do anything, ever, they have had to have faith in themselves and Hope in themselves that they will learn, and work to make it happen.
And those of us stuck with life’s “slings and arrows” it is good to know - not always easy or followed - that there are many simple teachings on: worry, anxiety, the now, our seeing clearly, hearing clearly, our fellow man... - gifted to us by Christ. But first we need to remove our superficial reading of them and read them "in our heart" to remove the surface and reveal in their deepest depth they are really not just about worry or strife but our attitude to them; and probably most importantly and hardest of all: our Trust in our ability and resilience to cope. And trust in The Spirit to guide us.
That Trust in Christ, His words, and The Holy Spirit, taken together with the beautiful visual impression in the Japanese art form of Kintsugi, and the written expression in Hemingway’s:
“sometimes life breaks us; but some become stronger in the broken places”
can give us a beautiful yet powerful realisation to help heal past wounds and become stronger in the broken places
Perhaps you have had to. I have had to. We share this with millions; this “...become stronger in the broken places”
Being in the places of The Holy Spirit - near you and far away - can help you: “...become stronger in the broken places”
Trust in Our Ability
Yet we have to make the effort to connect. But how? No mobiles here! No social media, email, WhatsApp or txting! But long before all these wonderful technologies of Man we had and still have God's technology: His Spirit, always with excellent connection!! and some great Apps: solitude; silence; stillness; contemplation; reflection; meditation; and prayer. Take your pick
We can Trust that many millions of the 2.3 billion Christians now, and before - not deranged, deluded, or pious for pious sake - have felt The Holy Spirit is present in their everyday lives. And to be heard and to hear, they simply connect using those great apps: in those still, quiet, solitary moments of reflection, contemplation, meditation or prayer.
To help you strengthen your trust in yourself, and Hope in your future, we are here to take you not to church or ritual or dogma; but to places of The Holy Spirit, This is our mission
Hope through Action
In a world where for many, "Christianity" and it's ritual and dogma, doesn't make sense or seem useful in it's present form in our present day. We say: look away from that feeling, and look instead at the master and His teachings which were never about ritual or dogma or even "being Christian" or being in any religion; but His teaching were always about living a "Way of Life" - and not in churches but then and now in our everyday ordinary way of life: at home, at work, on the bus, in traffic, walking, helping a homeless person.
Church and people now are two different things, when in early Christianity they were sort of one and the same thing. And the sadness and the negativity in the world - both secular of nations, and sacred of religions - damages the work of millions of good people since the time of Christ, who have striven to make a better world.
Hope for many seems to be at a crossroad.
But at that exact same crossroad, the Way of Hope in modern times is still there, and to throw our burden onto The Holy Spirit is a real possibility. This was practised and seen-in-action and ACCEPTED as real and present in ordinary everyday lives by the first followers of Christ. In our difficult times, like those early Christians, we too can let The Holy Spirit be alive in our everyday lives.
