Encouragement
When God created the world at the start of Creation all that came centuries later was in the pipeline at that time. The day we are born God has already written our destinies on our forehead and what is fated to happen in the years to come lies in the pipeline at the time of our birth.
Predictions are God's lot and we can only assume that He is in control of what is yet to come and will not disappoint us. Yes, our prayers will direct the course of what is waiting to roll and it is prudent to believe that God who provides us with our daily bread will take care of us in the days to come.
We read in Philippians 4:19; "And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus."
A young woman who was well informed in advance that she would not make it beyond childbirth on account of numerous complications prepares herself during her pregnancy to write a lengthy letter to her child to be read out on the child's tenth birthday. She delivers a baby girl and hands over the child to the grandmother with the letter to be given to her daughter. When the girl turns ten, the grandmother dutifully hands over to her the mother's letter. The girl is extremely overjoyed and sets to read the letter where her mother has expressed her love for her child whom she could not live to raise but hoped her words today would fill the empty space of her absence. The girl weeps both in joy and sadness. Soon she comes to a part highlighted in red in the letter.
Her mother had gone on to recount the story of how she had met her father in the college days. She then turned the story to describing about a woman who had been her father's best friend much before she had even arrived on the scene. Though her father had fallen in love at first sight with her mother, she was so sure that this woman too had loved him all along and was more than a friend. Perhaps she had disrupted a love which her father unknowningly had for this woman in return and which was already present in his heart but his attention had now shifted to her arrival. The woman on realising that her father could not return her love, took a bow and moved out of the scene. Her parents soon got married and there was no word about the young woman.
The mother in her letter now beseeches her daughter whom she presumes is a big girl now to understand relationships to trace the young woman as she was certain that she had not settled down so far given the true love that she had held in her heart and to get her back into her father's life as she was absolutely sure that this profound love was on both sides which had to be just brought out into the open. The girl sets about this mission, takes her grandmother into confidence, manages to locate the woman and arranges meetings with her father to unwrap the love which was in the pipeline of their hearts all along. They eventually confess their love and the girl gets a new mother selected by her own biological mother who had kept this woman in the pipeline of her letter for ten years reserved just for her husband and daughter.
A writer can never foretell the words in the pipeline of his thoughts until they come down on paper to create an article. In fact a writer at times is not even aware that he has a flair for writing until others discover and point it out. In my own life, it was a parish priest who taught us Cathechism in school who drew my attention to this fact during the final examinations held. As I recall, he went on raving about the answers that I had written and summarized with my own thoughts. This sparked an idea in my mind that perhaps spiritual writing was my cup of tea. This prompted me to write my first ever poem and a spiritual one at that in childhood thanks to this priest's discovery of a God given gift. I am ever grateful to him today for laying the basic foundation of writing in me and being a building block to the spiritual articles which were yet to be penned in the pipeline of my life at that age.
God has promised each one of us a whole load of blessings for this lifetime and in the next world with him. We do not know today what is in front of us in the days to come but surely God has kept something good reserved for us all.
As it is written in 2 Peter 3:13; "But we wait for what God has promised, new heavens and a new earth where righteousness will be at home."
A child once innocently asked her teacher whether she would have to brush her teeth in heaven as this was something she did not like doing. The teacher was amused and assured her that she doubted she would have to do so because in heaven she would be an angel happily moving around and enjoying the treats available there.
What is kept safe for us in the stronghold of heaven is in the pipeline at present. But it is definitely going to be so glorious that even the saints and prophets anticipated the wonders of it and today stand in those magnificent realms.
Truly we can rightly assume that the flowers in heaven will hold a much sweeter fragrance maybe a hundred times over than the flowers present on earth. And if we are fortunate to get a whiff of this heavenly scent here on earth in times of blessings, we can definitely make out the difference in such a fragrance and in the one we inhale from an actual flower on earth be they lilies or roses. I can safely testify to this experience where on numerous occasions I have indulged in this heavenly perfume presumably an invisible presence of a departed loved one giving us a bit of an heavenly experience which we shall one day inhabit to the full.
As long as our eyes are on the horizon of Heaven, we can go through each day enjoying life with the things held in the pipeline unrolling in the present until the day we see Him come victorious in the sky. Colossians 3:1 tells us; "You have been raised to life with Christ, so set your hearts on the things that are in heaven, where Christ sits on his throne at the right-hand side of God."
The book of Revelation is extensively explained by St John on the things to come in the future as per the visions given to him by God. At the end, the Lord himself proclaims as we read in Revelation 22:12-14; “Listen!” says Jesus. “I am coming soon! I will bring my rewards with me, to give to each one according to what he has done. I am the first and the last, the beginning and the end. Happy are those who wash their robes clean and so have the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life and to go through the gates into the city."
Today let us thank God for all the gifts that He kept in the pipeline of our life and presented to us each new day and for all the blessings yet to be received by us which He alone is aware of.
After all, our life in this world is also in the pipeline to eternal life in heaven.
Maria Franco
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