Bent to Lifted

Date: 22 May 2013

Last week three brothers – rain, wind and hailstone - broke many trees in Bangalore. They even pushed down a bamboo plant at our office campus and nearly broke it (but God had mercy on itJ). The plant had lots of leaves, so it could not return to its original position after the impact.

The Fallen Bamboo.

But when I went out again today, I saw someone had trimmed its leaves and its standing, almost to its original standing. Glad to see it. I thought we lost it.

The Lifted Bamboo (22 May 2013).

Few thoughts came after seeing this, I go when we face major blows in life:

• Sometimes we may not be able to get up. Our hearts may be broken, body become weak, brain cannot think, spiritually dry. Life could become meaningless. Everything we hold dearly may not make sense.
• Friends might say, what happened to that “giant”?
• When such things happen good to get help. God will send people who will trim us. We must be willing. Once again we’ll be up from the ground. Once again we’ll see life from different perspectives, not from ground.

I pray that every one of us will rise again and again in the midst of big difficulties in life. May we rise like eagles. May we develop the attitude of Paul, “afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed”.