Throughout the past year, I've experienced a fair share of God's goodness through his grace, blessings by his mercies, and most of all, challenges that ultimately showed God's plan for me. Closer to the beginning of this year, as most of you would know, I injured my leg. At first, it was definitely really challenging in many aspects. Feelings of missed opportunities, incapable of independence and time wasted. To me, the injury felt like a huge brick wall that stopped me from doing everything I needed or wanted to do. After the injury settled in and as I began recovery, people around me were immensely supportive. I was unable to do a lot of the physical things I used to do for a good few months, but somehow, I managed to survive school decently, passed my job interview, and above all, realized how much God loved me. The injury was only a brick wall that built my knowledge of who God was and how He shapes and molds us. He taught me the importance of perseverance and trust.Whats your brick wall experience?
Short but sweet! In terms of physcial "brick walls" I cant really say theres been any that I look back on and can identify that a lot of good came out of it. My biggest struggle is/was working through those doubts I had. It was a huge catalyst for my thirst to know God better and to be able to trust Him
ReplyDeleteI think you'll find in life that there are many brick walls and for me, anytime there's a mistake, I feel like I'm hitting a brick wall.. whether big or small...
ReplyDeleteThe best outcome is to come out learning something and hopefully not to do it again if the cause was by myself... although many times, i hit these darn brick walls over and over again and i just gotta stop running into them walls yo.
so short. cant get a sense of the author. lack of plot and development; no suspense and no time for readers to engage with writing....
ReplyDeletehahahah. :) im kidding.
one time i broke my ankle...but i guess i wasnt as bummed about it as you were...it just hurt...but not as much as yours did, im sure.
i think in terms of brick walls, and maybe this is more for gals, but i find A LOT of them in relationships...with family, friends, and yes...even boyfriends...
sooo many times ive hit 'brick walls' when it comes to friendships...seeing friends kinda drift away and just have their lives take on a completely often not so great path...and having to learn to let go and understand and trust that God's will is still in all of it...
with family...theres like a bagillion break walls to break through only to find a bagillion more...and sometimes, cause theyre family you learn to go around them or take down the wall one brick at a time..
and with relationship-relationships...im sure you guys can all imagine if not know very well...one of you very very very VERY well...that its extermely hard sometimes to break down a wall that the person you love has up...and harder still to take down your own walls that youve grown to build up...
its tough sometimes (who am i kidding, all the time)...but i think in some odd way brick walls or the getting through them part is what makes relationships stronger
now lets multiply fil's analogy of the brick wall and contextualize it in my relationship with God...i dont even think its a wall i have but a whole bricked up box that i either put myself in or God in...and its soooo messed up on sooo many different levels but i admit it - im pretty messed up...
and i think that its just a matter of persistently working at breaking down that wall one brick at a time that not only do i allow more of myself to God but i see more of him as well.