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You most? I thought You promised You’d be with me forever.
Why did Your footprints disappear at the times I
really needed You?”
Softly, gently, God laid a hand on the man’s head, wiped
away the tears. “My child, I promised to always be with
you, and I have never left you for a second, not even while
you slept. Those times when you see only one set of footprints,
those darkest moments of your life, it was those
times that I carried you in my arms.”
There are times we feel abandoned by God, times we doubt
His presence in our lives. It is easy to have faith when all is
going well, easy to believe in a plan when that plan brings
us joy and fulfillment. It is much more difficult to believe
in the inherent goodness of the Planner when the plan
causes agony. Do we all not, on some level, feel that when
our lives are tough, that we have been left by God? But, it
is those times that our faith will carry us through. It is
truly those times in which we are being carried by God.
Perhaps, as we get so much closer to him, as we move
from walking beside Him to being in His arms, we actually
feel His presence less, so we doubt it. Perhaps as the
boundaries and borders between Him and us dissolve, and
we simply become His children, perhaps that is when we
truly lose ourselves in Him. As the otherness is gone, perhaps
we feel less aware of the presence.
RAISE YOURSELF -
DON’T ERASE OTHERS
Once, a wonderful spiritual master gave a demonstration
in front of a large class. He drew a horizontal line on the
chalkboard and asked the class the following question: “Is
there anyone in the room who can make this line appear
shorter without erasing it?” The students thought and
thought. They concluded that the only possible way to reduce
the size of the line would be to erase part of it from
either side. Thus, they told Swamiji, “No, there is no way
to reduce the size of the line without erasing any of it.”
Swamiji then proceeded to draw another, much longer,
horizontal line on the board, a few inches above the previously
drawn line. “Now,” he asked. “Hasn’t the first line
become shorter in comparison to the new, longer line?
Doesn’t it appear quite short?” Everyone agreed that the
line now appeared much shorter. “One does not have to
erase a piece of the first line in order to make it appear
shorter. One simply has to draw a longer line near it, and it
will automatically seem shorter.”
In life, in the rush to get ahead, in the rush to prove ourselves
and make a name for ourselves, we frequently resort
to criticizing, condemning and badmouthing others.
In order to make ourselves look better, we put other people
down. So many times we tell examples of the shortcomings
of our colleagues so that we – in comparison – will
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