Possibilities

By: Gabriela Yareliz

I saw this at the I like, I wish, I heart  blog, and I smiled. Don’t we all feel like this at some point or another? It is spring break for me, and I’ve been alternating between doing assignments and watching foreign films. I’ve discovered Bollywood films make me happy while French films leave this weird tarte aftertaste and leave you in a state of hopeless despair.

Bollywood films tend to be about innocent love, family and joy. French films are usually portraying love as obsession, something that can drive you mad. Plus, many of the actors don’t seem to like hairbrushes. Maybe it’s just me, being over the French thing (except you Roman Duris-you are still my favorite) since I’ve been around it for so long and embracing something novel.

I have watched some good films lately though, “Contagion” was interesting, “Heartbreaker” or L’Arnacoeur was excellent (as far as latest French films go) and The Adjustment Bureau was interesting (I loved the true portrayal of Love being able to conquer all), and “Free Zone” about women who develop an extraordinary friendship at the Free Zone between Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq and Syria.

Anyway, this isn’t  film review.

I have been thinking about life. How complex it is, and how depending on where you are in the world, how much more complex it can become. I’ve been reading biographies about people who were child soldiers (Ishmael Beah) or Debbie Rodriguez who started a beauty salon in Kabul; all of these stories have fascinated me. They show hope, humanity and love at its best.

I am often tempted to think my life is maybe boring or lame, but then when I really think of every detail and how God helps me in everything, from finding subjects to interview or helping me find grace in people’s sight who end up helping me, or the amazing people he places around me who become my friends–I can only realize how extraordinary my life really is.

Perhaps, if we all looked at our lives with a magnifying glass we would see the same.

1 Peter 5:7 tells us: “Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.”

Luke 12:7: “But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.”

Sometimes in life it seems things get worse. It begins to pour rain, but it is then that we often fail to realize that maybe the person who comes and stands beside us with the umbrella changes everything in our lives, and they would have never gotten there if it wouldn’t have been for the rain.

In an instant a stranger can come and change everything in our world, and nothing is ever the same.

Just know, God is in control always. Follow the one who made the path, because like this it is impossible to get lost.