DO we have that power?
Do you believe that sometimes the Teacher teach us by speaking through all things around us?
I do. Many times, when God wants me to learn something, He let problems, obstacles around that 'subject' to happen to me.
Recently, I bumped a lot with the message that "I need to learn more on inclusion". It is all around me. I thought I was inclusive enough, I can accept people that are different with me, their choices, their preference, etc. Until my brother told me "until you learn to be more inclusive you will keep having a trouble with XXXX (I do not want this XXXX person to read this and wept, so let's keep her/him as XXXX).
Not long after that, on another occasion, the word occurs again.
I am used to this. When different problems occur, with one keyword as a part of the solution, this means God wants me to learn about it.
So inclusion, what do I learn so far?
- that God creates people differently.
- that human has free will, they choose the kind of person they become. Some people choose to be like what you also choose to be. Some people don't. Accept it.
- people are born with different characteristic. Accept it.
- you (and I) cannot change other people, we can only change ourself. God also can change them. Only God and us, can change ourself. So, instead of getting frustrated on changing people, change yourself (if you have to live with them, change the way you see them, so your happiness does not depends on others) and pray about the situation and the other person.
- the difficult people in your life, were/are there to teach us a lesson. God wants to build us through them. Learn fast, and get over with the lesson.
Have fun learning with God. Just remember, everything is under His control. With Him in control, why worry?
Back to the title of this post. Do we have it? You answer for yourself.
XOXO,
Katabenio.
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| On Acceptance |
Do you believe that sometimes the Teacher teach us by speaking through all things around us?
I do. Many times, when God wants me to learn something, He let problems, obstacles around that 'subject' to happen to me.
Recently, I bumped a lot with the message that "I need to learn more on inclusion". It is all around me. I thought I was inclusive enough, I can accept people that are different with me, their choices, their preference, etc. Until my brother told me "until you learn to be more inclusive you will keep having a trouble with XXXX (I do not want this XXXX person to read this and wept, so let's keep her/him as XXXX).
Not long after that, on another occasion, the word occurs again.
I am used to this. When different problems occur, with one keyword as a part of the solution, this means God wants me to learn about it.
So inclusion, what do I learn so far?
- that God creates people differently.
- that human has free will, they choose the kind of person they become. Some people choose to be like what you also choose to be. Some people don't. Accept it.
- people are born with different characteristic. Accept it.
- you (and I) cannot change other people, we can only change ourself. God also can change them. Only God and us, can change ourself. So, instead of getting frustrated on changing people, change yourself (if you have to live with them, change the way you see them, so your happiness does not depends on others) and pray about the situation and the other person.
- the difficult people in your life, were/are there to teach us a lesson. God wants to build us through them. Learn fast, and get over with the lesson.
Have fun learning with God. Just remember, everything is under His control. With Him in control, why worry?
Back to the title of this post. Do we have it? You answer for yourself.
XOXO,
Katabenio.
