
My dream sharing will be continued…
Deodată toţi cei din jurul lui au început să râdă iar împăratul, precum Adam în grădina pierdută şi-a conştientizat propria-i goliciune. Bietul imparat!
Poate un cititor va ridica sprânceana şi va spune: -aşa-i trebuie, că prea era mandru, se gândea numai la slava lui. Echipa de Dezbateri a unei şcoli ilustre ar putea susţine pe de o parte că “cei trei croitori au manipulat un biet ignorant, un caracter slab, avid de validare şi evident instabil” sau că “ un ego exacerbat al unui conducător de sânge albastru a forţat trei bieţi croitoraşi să-şi compromită valorile”, pe de alta parte. Până la urmă, ar zice un membru al echipei, ce este adevărul?
“Bietul împărat, ce victimă, sigur croitorii erau precum tinerii din zilele noastre lipsiţi de respect şi de valori” parcă aud o doamna în vârstă comentând.
Gândul la împărat a trecut destul de repede şi am putut chiar să uit amintirea coperţii. Admirându-mă în oglinda dis de dimineată, -prea “dis” aş putea să adaug din străfundul cartierului Berceni – mă pregăteam pentru Biserica. Aerul rece şi vântul pişcător mi-au monopolizat simţurile până când, în metrou, admirându-mă din nou, de data aceasta într-o fereastra, m-am întrebat: oare port “brâul adevărului” în aşa fel încât privirea şi salutul meu să fie autentice? Oare am pe mine platoşa neprihănirii ca să mă pot înfătişa asa cum se cuvine în faţa Domnului? Oare în lucrarea mea se vede că port râvna evangheliei? Pot să mă feresc de sageti - şi nu de orice fel ci din cele arzătoare, ale celui rău- purtând scutul credinţei? Oare e vizibil coiful mântuirii şi nu cumva am uitat acasă sabia Duhului? Oare sunt îmbrăcată sau mă pot aştepta să aud pe cineva strigând: împăratul e gol!!
Vezi Efeseni 6: 14-17
In Romanian we have this saying, “it’s first love” and that means that a person is in love for the first time, it’s that love when everything is possible. It’s Corinthians 13 love that brings joy and energy in our lives and most of the times in the lives of others. I remember Buzatu Corneliu with whom I was hopelessly in love in the first grade. He was a “first love” but he let me down as his grammar was appalling and he ate with his mouth open .Years after that the list of “loves” is not long and my standards have slightly changed.
A few broken dreams and a couple of buckets of tears later He came along. He swept me off my feet. First, He made me feel like dirt; Proverbs can do that to you when you don’t know the whole story. It’s the whore/wisdom conflict that can get to you if you’re not ready. Then I made an issue of personal development out of Him. Isn’t the Exodus fascinating from an archaeological point of view? There were so many things I could learn from the Bible! All the names of the peoples and ancient cities and .. oh what a lovely story (it’s best if you read this article with a British accent). It wasn’t long before I thought He was perfect for all humanity except me…His speeches from the Gospels were just brilliant and wasn’t He kind to save that poor adulteress from being stoned, I wonder what did He write on the sand?
But He kept talking to me, tantalizing and challenging me to the point that I would be obsessed with His words and pull over in traffic just to read more. It wasn’t a story anymore: it was personal! He could be the one for me!!
It was a summer night full of stars and I could shout into the darkness “Eureka!” but I thought it would be a cheap imitation of some old Greek man and it wouldn’t express half of what I had discovered. I had discovered that I was worth more that some university degrees, more than a good job and my house by the Pacific. He loved me with my hair up or down and I did not have to make conversation but I loved talking to Him. He wasn’t particularly happy about my luggage but He was willing to carry it and even dumped in a funny Sea all those things I couldn’t get rid of. That night He said that if I asked Him to, He would stay. It took faith the size of a mustard seed as I would have rather told a mountain to move into the sea that trust somebody else with full control of my life. In those days I was addicted to tobacco and me but it was harder to give up me than it was to renounce tobacco.
We started that night and we’re still going strong!