..One blow and the Law of Gravity..

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When I was a kid, mom told me that I once asked my late grandfather why the stars remained in the sky yet they do not fall. My poor grandpa just shook his head. When I started to hear phenomenal things like galaxies, Milky Way, and Law of Gravity, I content myself that there are things in life complicated to be explained and that God is behind them all. When I had my first share of being heartbroken, ahemm, I was thinking that there must be something wrong in the Law of Gravity. That if everything attracts everything, why people tends to fall? Is someone giving more and the other less? 

I've been watching the tree just across the street while I am waiting for our bus. The blowing of cool breeze of wind makes my eyes drooping yet I can't afford to lose sight of the swaying of leaves basking with the sunset. Then the leaves started falling one by one. Gravitational pull, I muttered. Some of them fell on the ground, some fell elsewhere after being blown by the wind. But the tree remained still, having its joyous standout after some falls from its branches.

I was swept away with the realization of that moment. We are the tree and the falling leaves are the failures we encounter  in our struggles, the losses after sometime of fighting the hard battles, and the pains and anguish after giving your all. The leaves that fell on the ground are the elements we can't get back and go back to: time, broken trust, missed opportunities. The wind is God. The leaves that fell elsewhere are the ones blown by Him. They were there for a reason. God willed that they should be there. It may represent our daily problems, glitches in work, difficulty in forgiving, a strained relationship that can be retrieved with humility, sickness and disabilities, vicious habits that enable us to understand the woundedness of others and the many things that enable us to be better that is why these conditions and situations exist. I don't know about you but I believe that the things that pulled us down are the same things that make us remain standing, fighting, and grounded. The gravity that pulled the leaves down is the same gravity that keeps you standing. Ironic?

The Law of Gravity states that things tend to fall downward. But somewhere between that gravitational pull, God can change the course of your destiny. One breath of His provision and you'll be healed, you'll get the job you wanted, you'll get the visa you're praying for, you'll have the lovelife (ahemm ahemm) you've been long waiting for, you'll have the taste of success that seemed to be so effortless. I am convinced that there was indeed wrong with the Law of Gravity. Because when God blows the wind of His will, even the Law of Gravity cannot do anything. So stay joyous while swaying and basking in the present moment, keep yourself open with God's miracles, giving thanks in all your circumstances and keeping in mind that behind, beneath, over and under all the gravitational pull, God is working hard only for your best.

So then, even gravity cannot let us down! =)