Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

Hi everyone!

So it’s the first day of the year!

*ALREADY!*

Did you make any new year resolutions? If you did, … are they different from last year’s, or are they the same ones?

[Btw, one website caught my attention as it stated, ‘… many Americans seem to make the same New year resolutions each year! Sounds familiar to many of us, I say]

Anyway, today I’d like to share with you this article, a well-written one, by a friend of ours, Audy Santoso.

And my hope is for it to be an inspirational food for thought for everyone (as it has been for me), as we all begin our very first day this year.

Happy New Year, everyone!

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Every genesis of the year, we make promises to ourselves that we would be better and do better in our lives, towards ourselves, towards our families, towards our friends, towards others, and of course towards God.

Well… every janus of the year is truly like a self-conscious path that we all take before speeding forward to another janus.

Why do we make marks in time?

One of the likely reasons would be to affirm our existential consciousness that is simply unwilling to be pushed aside and locked in the closet of time. Irrespective of whether we are a social or an isolate kind of person, we are consciously aware of our existence here and now, especially in the ne/o(w) year.

In neo year, we want to be a neo person. Alas! We fail to acknowledge our flaws even as we have repeatedly stumbled upon the same rock of mistake. Is it our stubbornness or resoluteness that we continuously dare to re-challenge ourselves to re-live our lives? There’s a thin line between stupidity and bravery.

If life is so bleak, what’s the point of all these?

My friend, the answer is not in the resolution as in the gracesolution.

We break promises as soon as we made them. We are born a liar, that’s what makes us so in despair if we truly dare to uncover the repressed memory of our inner self. Resolution would just put a make-up in already a decaying corpse.

How long can we deceive ourselves? There’s no true transformation than the grace formation. Grace (is the) solution, not ‘re’.

Where can this grace be found then? This grace can only be found outside of us but works only when it’s applied inside of us.

Who can find it then and who can apply it to us? It’s not of our works that we can find it, but it is God’s grace that seeks us and grips us. Only the Spirit of a gracious God can apply it to us. Truly, truly, unless you are born of water and the Spirit, you cannot enter the neo year of God.

Do you have gracesolution?