The gospel today tells us a story about a widow who lost her
only son.
When the Lord saw her, he was moved with pity for her and
said to her, “Do not weep.” He stepped forward and touched the coffin; at this
the bearers halted, and he said, “Young man, I tell you, arise!” The dead man
sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. Fear seized them
all, and they glorified God, exclaiming, “A great prophet has arisen in our
midst,” and “God has visited his people.” Luke
7:13-16
Have you watched Despicable Me 2?
In the movie, El Macho stole a mutating chemical compound,
PX-41, which transformed living things into indestructible killing machines to
conquer the world. Gru found out that Dr. Nefario, his friend, has been working
for El Macho because he missed being “evil” and they had been capturing and
mutating some of his minions into purple-furred monsters using the stolen serum.
When Lucy had been captured, Dr. Nefario called Gru to tell him about it. So he
disguised 2 minions as purple furred monster and acted as their prisoner in a
rescue attempt. Dr. Nefario had a change of heart and was able to come up with an
antidote to help restore the minions and save Lucy.
You might be asking why I’m telling you about it. Gru had
lost almost all of his minions, the love of his life had been captured and his
only friend turned his back on him. All of them are important to him.
If you think about it, Gru could save Lucy, kill the purple
minions and Dr. Nefario had a choice not to help him but no. The story ended
better than that.
God is the writer, we are the story.
Whenever someone asked me for an advice, I see to it that I remind
them how God is bigger, that he knows what he’s doing, that everything has a message/purpose
and would tell them my story.
One of my friends told me, “Kristine, don’t tell me that
everything will be okay. People are different. I will never be okay. She’s the
only person who completes me. It’s been years. I’m a good person, I don’t
deserve this. I always pray and it seems that not one of my prayers is
answered.”
I paused for a while before answering him.
Unfortunately, he opposed everything I said and kept telling
me that “people are different”. But I used my stubbornness to be able for him
to know that I’ll never get tired of being there for him, sharing the truth.
Last Sunday, we had our CLP orientation. Our talk giver was
Kuya Don Vivas, he was one of our favorite talk givers in CFC. He told us how
crazy the world is and what it offers versus what God offers.
I was contemplating on what he was saying, thinking about
how to effectively share it to other people then I remembered one person who
told me something about it. I can’t remember his exact words but his point was,
when you tell something not all people could believe you that’s why you have to
constantly repeat it in order for them to absorb what you wanted to say. It’s
hard but necessary. That’s what I did plus prayer.
Days after, I was surprised when he said, “To be honest
Kristine, I really don’t want to talk to you anymore but I find myself talking
to you. I was not supposed to add you but I did. Then when I was sad, you were
annoyingly there for me. You convinced me to go with you to eastwood, to CLP,
it’s not like me. It happened so fast that I asked myself, what am I doing with
this girl? Amazing right? My only question right now is why am I always running
back to her? I prayed for her to talk to me again. She did! Is it because I
attended the CLP? Impossible! That was so fast. I feel really happy. He’s the
boss alright!” God answered him more than what he was praying. I was so happy
because God also answered mine.
Despicable me, my friend and the widow in Luke has a similar
story. All she needs that time is to be comforted, sympathized and a company. God knows better. He
knows that more than anything, she needs her son. So he raised him back to
life.
God understands our desires in our hearts. He sees through
us. An unanswered prayer doesn’t mean that he didn’t hear us or that he doesn’t
care. He is the author of our life. He has something better for us other than
what we want. He edits our story from time to time.
God works in mysterious ways. You would be amazed on what
he has in store for you ;)
