I READ this one posted in the FB wall of a well-respected executive director of one of the country’s most prestigious institution. I also found this post in numerous well-meaning friends’ walls. I got curious and read the article myself.
Here I am now reposting the said article but with my column readers as target to be touched by this anecdote. Here it is:
I was in a Japanese store last night, and there was a lady and two kids behind me in the LONG line. One was a big kid, and the other one was a toddler. The bigger one had a pack of glow sticks, and the toddler was screaming for them. The mom opened the pack and gave him one which stopped his tears. He walked around with it smiling, but then the bigger boy took it, and the toddler started screaming again. Just as the Mom was about to fuss, the older child bent the glow stick and handed it back to the toddler. As we walked outside at the same time, the toddler noticed that the stick was now glowing; and his brother said, "I had to break it so that you could get the full effect from it."
I almost ran because l could hear God saying to me, "I had to break you to show you why I created you. You had to go through it so you could fulfill your purpose."
That precious child was happy just swinging that "unbroken" glow stick around in the air, because he didn't understand what it was created to do - which was "to glow."
There are some people who will be content just "being," but some of us that God has chosen... we have to be "broken."
We have to get sick.
We have to lose a job.
We go through a divorce.
We have to bury our sister, parents, best friend, or our best friend dogs!
In those moments of desperation, God is breaking us. But... when the breaking is done, then we will be able to see the reason for which we were created. So when you see us glowing, just know that we have been broken but healed by His Grace and Mercy!
Copy & Post on your timeline if you have experienced being broken. #Repost #CreditsToTheWriter
This Corner is hoping that this article will teach us a fruitful lesson in life, that indeed, there is hope after the storm.