NOTE:spiritual reveries is back! in the past i have posted a lot of spiritual musings especially on my personal blogs. but i stopped for a while. i've been going through a lot the past few months. and i am slowly going back to normal --- i owe it from my faith from the one above. He guides me...and He heals my pain...after all, He is the MASTER HEALER. i hope i am not offending anyone while i am posting religious musings. it's my vow to keep my promise to share HIS word. if i'm able to reach to even just a single soul and inspire them, it is enough and i'm satisfied. so enjoy and read!]

at first, i saw God as my observer, my judge, keeping track of the things i did wrong, so as to know whether I merited heaven or hell when i die. he was out there sort of like a president. i recognized His picture when i saw it, but i really didn't know him. but later on when I met christ, it seemed as though life were rather like a bike ride, but it was a tandem bike; and i noticed that christ was in the back helping me pedal. i don't know just when it was that He suggested we change places, but life has not been the same since.

when i had control, i knew the way. it was rather boring, but predictable. it was the shortest distance between two points. but when He took the lead, he knew delightful long cuts, up mountains and through the rocky places at breakneck speeds. it was all i could do to hang on! even though it looked like madness, He said, "pedal!" i worried and was anxious and asked, "where are you taking me?", he laughed and didn't answer, and i started to learn to trust. i forgot my boring life and entered into the adventure. and when i would say, "i'm scared," He'd lean back and touch my hand.

He took me to people with gifts that i needed, gifts of healing, acceptance and joy. they gave me gifts to take on my journey, too, my Lord's and mine. and we were off again. He said, "give the gifts away; they're extra baggage, too much weight." So i did, to the people we met, and i found that in giving i received, and still our burden was light.

i did not trust Him, at first, in control of my life. i thought He'd wreck it; but He knows bike secrets, knows how to make it bend to take sharp corners, knows how to jump to clear high rocks, knows how to fly to shorten the scary passages. and i am learning to shut up and pedal in the strangest places, and i'm beginning to enjoy the view and the cool breeze on my face with my delightful constant companion, Jesus Christ.

and when i'm sure I can't do anymore, He just smiles and says... "pedal."
dear lord,
life is a matter of a bike race. we have to thread up and down our own mountains and trek through valleys of rights and wrong. lord, remind us that when we are at our most difficult trails, YOU are there. and let us not forget to "PEDAL." because when we reach the end of this journey, we will be in YOUR kingdom. we asked you these in you most precious name. AMEN.

posted by pinay freestyle @ 2:17 PM

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