The Energy

We are humans and that word humans, though I am not aware of its origins touched me so deeply. I sit in wonder of where we get our energy, the energy of though, of emotion, of being and the very many things that we can do and actually do on a regular basis. We are the force that is here to hold things together even though many times we simply break things apart.

Think of a wife in a home were the husband has turned into a stranger. She has to harness the strength to love, may be not the husband, but the children and herself. In the midst of terrible hurt and betrayal she still finds the strength to do the right thing and even though she may not do it all right, there is a strength that pushed her to do some good and right.

A young man dreaming of starting and running his own company. When the resources oppose him and the help is so stretched. He still finds reason to dream on and to hope that one day he is going to touch the dreams he sees in his heart. The list could go on and you will find yourself somewhere on the line. We are embedded, by our creator with certain capabilities that we have never even touched. When we interact with others of our kind, we all experience a lighting that springs not from those others but from our very selves. In us is the energy and we each bring it out in each other when we let ourselves do so.

When we lose for the very first time, we experience a sinking in that many times we think we shall never get out of. We have all experienced loss of some kind, our dreams have shattered right in front of us, we have had moments when we were invalid even to ourselves, but as we kept on this road of life, we awakened the energy on the inside of us, energy not only to move forward but also to regain our dignity, to feel that we are important again.

Cynics have crossed our paths and doubted everything that we stood for; there have even been moments when we doubted ourselves, not because of the magnitude of the task but for the insufficiency of our very selves. And indeed we are insufficient in ourselves. Even the strongest among us has a limit. We all get to the point when we cannot gather the energy to love, to forgive and so on, may be for a season, may be for a lifetime, but we all get to that point. And the maker of the universe made sure that there would be enough energy flowing down here to help us overcome those moments.

When we take a walk in the park, go out with friends or simply listen to the kind of music that we love the most, we tap into this energy. The point is we each carry a bit of the energy I am talking about, an ability to make others happy, free, independent or even confident. We each can help those around us experience these.

The challenge is that we can only do that to an extent and that because we have not lived with people that did this for us, we are not with the experience to do this for any one else. In think that the maker of this universe thought it wise to stretch Himself in all of creation so that we may have a glimpse of Who He is and that we would know what it is like to experience Him in the different scenarios of life. What I am saying is that while we have insurmountable energy on the inside of us, to emit in this life, we can all get a bit more from the one that started it all, the one that is all of it, when we agree to be with Him.

True, our energy can get exhausted and it will at a certain point, we shall rebel against our very selves, go against the norms that we helped create and be the beings we never thought we would be. And in those moments, the people that knew us as the opposite will go against us at a time when we most need to be covered and reminded of the nature that we inherently posses. We are then left alone to wander in the deserts of life, sometimes alone, many times in the company of those very things that led to us being redefined. A redefinition we don’t like and that’s the reason for our being rejected in the first place.

We are much stronger than we think or have experienced ourselves to be. I think the Creator of this universe thought it only wise to put within us the energy that will help us hold things together even when the times are dark and gloom. When our definition has been altered we need all the external energy to re-kindle that on the inside of us, and whatever will seem to present the help will indeed be our friend.

When we have lost, from the inside of us, we are many times without the ability to rekindle our energy. We are impaired so that we are not in any position to move in the right direction on our own, but many times we do, many times we are left to make that walk alone and somehow we all find the ability. Where do we get our energy from? When we fall on the race track and there is no one to pick us up, we pick ourselves up and yet run again. The pain of life will be thrown upon us, we shall be pressed many time, compressed and pressured from within, but we shall not be crushed or perish, we shall live to tell this story and when that time comes, it will be a beautiful story to tell.

Where do we get our energy? From the one that made it all, that is all. When we are forsaken, we are not without help or strength; we are well embedded with it in us. For all our journeys, alone or in company, we shall count on the energy that He provides.

Isn’t He a beautiful God?