I once told myself that tougher it gets for you to get something; greater are the chances that you would eventually get it. Because when something is very precious, God just wants to be sure that He is giving it in the right hands. So, when He makes it difficult for you it’s not to scare you away, but all He wants is to be absolutely sure that you really want what you asking for. And so all one needs to do in such moments is to stay put and not give up.
And while this may sound a little childish, but this invented “rule of life” of mine has stayed with me since then and actually helped me slug it out in moments when everything seemed lost. I would be the first one to agree that this little principle of faith may not be able to stand slightest of test of reason. But then I turn to it only when reason refuses to stand by me.
There are times when you want something very badly but you can’t seem to get it and in these times, your wisdom, your reason, your logic all gang up and ask you to turn back, assuring you that there is nothing wrong in giving up, convincing you that best thing to do is to just step aside. And still you just don’t want to give up, because something deep down tells you not to – at least not just yet.
And in such moments, all of us need our little friendly rules of faith, ones to which we can turn and who can tell us to ignore all the sane advice and just heed to call of our heart – rules of faith which can tell us to stay put and not give up as yet. And they may be childish but all of us need one or two childish friends like these. Because just like little kids these little acts of faith also don’t question you, they don’t argue with you, they just look at you and smile approvingly – and that smile is enough to bring back your confidence and hope. And sometimes this little faith is all that’s needed to bridge the last stretch between your dreams and reality.
And even if it is not enough to take you to the end but it at least takes you as far as you could have possibly gone and doesn’t leave you with a regret of giving it up when you could have still made that last ditch effort.
After all, so often what comes back to haunt you is not that you lost but that may be you just didn’t try right till the end…
And while this may sound a little childish, but this invented “rule of life” of mine has stayed with me since then and actually helped me slug it out in moments when everything seemed lost. I would be the first one to agree that this little principle of faith may not be able to stand slightest of test of reason. But then I turn to it only when reason refuses to stand by me.
There are times when you want something very badly but you can’t seem to get it and in these times, your wisdom, your reason, your logic all gang up and ask you to turn back, assuring you that there is nothing wrong in giving up, convincing you that best thing to do is to just step aside. And still you just don’t want to give up, because something deep down tells you not to – at least not just yet.
And in such moments, all of us need our little friendly rules of faith, ones to which we can turn and who can tell us to ignore all the sane advice and just heed to call of our heart – rules of faith which can tell us to stay put and not give up as yet. And they may be childish but all of us need one or two childish friends like these. Because just like little kids these little acts of faith also don’t question you, they don’t argue with you, they just look at you and smile approvingly – and that smile is enough to bring back your confidence and hope. And sometimes this little faith is all that’s needed to bridge the last stretch between your dreams and reality.
And even if it is not enough to take you to the end but it at least takes you as far as you could have possibly gone and doesn’t leave you with a regret of giving it up when you could have still made that last ditch effort.
After all, so often what comes back to haunt you is not that you lost but that may be you just didn’t try right till the end…
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