I was remembering a friend of mine when I realized that it had been about 3 years since he passed away and that he would have graduated this last May if he was around....
Something that was shared at his funeral was an email that he sent to his best friends 11 days before what would be a fatal accident.
Words that speak so much more truth than they knew when they were spoken....
3:16pm Apr 15th 2008
"Goodness, you are all some awesome crazy people and I love you all more than you know or I can tell you. And this is life, it smacks you in the face, it blesses you in countless ways, it confuses you to the point where you forget who you are and where you're going.
God hasn't shown me a lot lately, I think He's trying to get it into my head that He is so much in control, anything and everything in my life is in His hands. And I am struggling. I am struggling to let go. I want to stress about where my life is going, who I am, who I become, and how I affect people. God wants me to care; He doesn't want me to worry.
‘Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us to be.’ Archbishop Oscar Rome.
Archbishop Oscar Rome's words seem so right in my head, but I am struggling to take them to heart..... a lot. I guess my prayer for myself and for all of you lovely people is that of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, ‘not my will but Yours be done.’ I pray that we can live ‘in the deathless Truth of His presence’ because this is life. This is what God gave us. Rejoice and be glad. I love you all, but God loves you more, good thing. Love and Peace."
Beautiful. Simple. Truth.
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