Rainer Maria Rilke wrote: “So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.”
As I was casually scrolling through videos to fill the silence in my room while I run some chores, I stumbled upon this. I was gonna leave this page, but I wasn't quick enough - just as the 2nd/3rd person started singing, I broke into tears & it compelled me to finish watching the video.
[I'm not usually like this, at least not without some 'pre-empting' - I wondered myself if it was that time of the month, I hadn't been very emotional prior to this. I had just finished eating an orange & was about to make coffee. Totally uncalled for, if you will! :p]
Before these thoughts could distract me further, I was completely captivated by how the singers were worshipping our God, (my God) - there seemed to be no barriers, there appeared direct access to an open heaven that was pouring out on earth, to God's precious children, who each individually feel as crowned & entitled & special as I do; to those of different nationalities, yet God is our common factor; although we don't know each other, & we probably could never reach a mature & intimate friendship, yet, the truth is what brings & holds us together, and causes His people to worship this God, as if we're all the same, as if we're all part of the same family worshipping our Father. There's union & intimacy in this presence... no fear, just love & reverence. Suddenly it all just makes sense. (where we are, what we do, what we live for...)
We're all equally & each individually crazy precious, each a diamond/ruby, to our God.
Sometimes I already feel SUPER GREAT because God has SO MUCH LOVE for me, that I can't even contain it! & I'd be really secure (esp in my insecure times) - because I know God's Love credit is still so bountiful & abundant, there's always ENOUGH, if not more, for me to fall back on. The thought of that would simply pump life back into me, & I'd be so empowered again knowing that I've got the greatest superpowers ever, that I'm bigger than life.
Can you imagine, how many more people who actually feels (or is capable to feel) this way?
How many more, if not everybody else.
Wow, my God is so, great.
Watching this video really moved my heart. I was reminded again about the core of our living as people of earth, & that the truth is the truth everywhere. It moved me again, as it broke the pre-conceived stereotypes that are attached to each country/nationality, that God transcends beyond language, governance, culture... that we're all made for Him.
- "To an Unknown God" - "He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn't live in man-made temples, and human hands can't serve his needs - for he has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfied every need. His purpose was for the nations to seek after God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him - though he is not far from any one of us. For in him, we live and move and exist. 'We are his offspring'." - Acts 17:24-28
