I am in the next few blogs going to write on the topic " The joy of living ". The wonderful experience of having life. Really an odd topic and I would mention this heading on all the blogs that relate to this as "Joy of living". So this is Joy of living - Part 1:
The title is similar to a holly-wood movie, but this is just a title and has nothing to do with the movie- honestly. OK, since you do not believe, let me give the very well known disclaimer -
Happy? So let us begin. Let me ask you a question. Are you really happy today? Donot worry, the blog will make you cry.
For the rest of you who do not nitpick, welcome once again. There were two weddings and a funeral this week, and all of them reminded me that I should be glad for the life that I have been given and I thought it would be worth to share with you since I cried at all of them. The first wedding of course was celebrated by a huge number of people and I was not there literally to wish the couple and say happy married life, but I really do hope that Kate and William do enjoy a wonderful life together. I basically do not follow fashion, but here I was, wondering which dress would Kate wear to the wedding. I basically think that it was not all that great, and I know many women folks would kill for that and I therefore refrain from commenting on the dress. I was moved at the words that was said by the priest who conducted the wedding. As its free speech, I wish to quote some here,"In a sense every wedding is a royal wedding with the bride and the groom as king and queen of creation, making a new life together so that life can flow through them into the future.
William and Catherine, you have chosen to be married in the sight of a generous God who so loved the world that he gave himself to us in the person of Jesus Christ.
And in the Spirit of this generous God, husband and wife are to give themselves to each another.
A spiritual life grows as love finds its centre beyond ourselves. Faithful and committed relationships offer a door into the mystery of spiritual life in which we discover this; the more we give of self, the richer we become in soul; the more we go beyond ourselves in love, the more we become our true selves and our spiritual beauty is more fully revealed. In marriage we are seeking to bring one another into fuller life.
It is of course very hard to wean ourselves away from self-centredness. And people can dream of doing such a thing but the hope should be fulfilled it is necessary a solemn decision that, whatever the difficulties, we are committed to the way of generous love." [read more here]
How many times do we realise that we are the kings and queens of this creation, how many times are we grateful that when it rains, we have a shelter over our head. Or how many times do we realise that there is a purpose for which we are blessed. The words used by the clergy was so apt, so simple and thought evoking.
The next day I attended another wedding, and this time it was real time, I was there, I was at my cousins marriage. It was beautiful, I cried at it too. In the wedding liturgy there were these phrases used: "You are the kings and queens of this creation, you are reminded again that the purpose of your unity, your creation is in-fact to give glory to God, and to take care of the earth that he has given you to rule. Multiply, reproduce and bring forth generations that would be for God." How many times have we took time to pause and say man, the sky looks pretty, the sunset is beautiful, so perfect from one end to other like in a well painted picture.
The artist took every time he had so that the sunset is different everyday. Simple, like a song in the bible that goes like this "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the skies show his handwork.A day tells another day this speech, and night unto night it shows knowledge". Its not that we do not have time to take a break, its that we ignore it, calling it scattering of light. I would give you any number of crystals and sand in the world. Could you ever scatter light so beautifully? Back in my school days when we learned that the sky was blue due to dispersion of blue light component in the white light, we did an experiment. I think it was called Newton's scattering experiment. All I got was a thin line of red light what was far polarised and nothing compared to the red sun that we see at the beach wallpapers on our computer screen. Can we pause the next time, as early as its possible within our work timings to see and admire the beauty of nature, not a photograph, not a wallpaper for $1, a real sunrise or sunset.
The artist took every time he had so that the sunset is different everyday. Simple, like a song in the bible that goes like this "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the skies show his handwork.A day tells another day this speech, and night unto night it shows knowledge". Its not that we do not have time to take a break, its that we ignore it, calling it scattering of light. I would give you any number of crystals and sand in the world. Could you ever scatter light so beautifully? Back in my school days when we learned that the sky was blue due to dispersion of blue light component in the white light, we did an experiment. I think it was called Newton's scattering experiment. All I got was a thin line of red light what was far polarised and nothing compared to the red sun that we see at the beach wallpapers on our computer screen. Can we pause the next time, as early as its possible within our work timings to see and admire the beauty of nature, not a photograph, not a wallpaper for $1, a real sunrise or sunset.After the Sunday I had to attend a funeral on Monday. My relative passed away, I was not so close with him, but there were many close. Amongst them was a little girl, she may have been roughly about six or seven, she was not able to see her grandfather silent. The body was taken to the church for the funeral ceremony and later the burial in a cemetery nearby, it travelled on an ambulance with the rear door open. I was following them, trailing slowly, escorting the ambulance at the rear.I saw the wife of this man and the little girl there at the back seat of the ambulance, both whimpering, onlooking the silence that they saw of a man who had been a part of their lives.
The little girl reached forth to touch his face which was still uncovered, her tiny fingers trembling, her grandmothers hand closely followed hers, I believe both wished that the touch would evoke some form of stimuli in him, but it did not't. The little girl turned around and looked into the wet eyes of her grandmother and hugged. There were no words that was needed for anyone on earth to tell me what they said, I broke into tears. I could no longer escort them. My bike stopped, I stood at a distance onlooking a future where I would be in his place. The funeral ended with the a reading from bible, declaring the truth that he believed in "O death, where is your sting? O, grave where is your victory?" A bewildering and strange victory call at the onset of what seems to have been a defeat. Aren't you glad that you have been able to breath till the end of this? Aren't you glad that another day was lived?
The little girl reached forth to touch his face which was still uncovered, her tiny fingers trembling, her grandmothers hand closely followed hers, I believe both wished that the touch would evoke some form of stimuli in him, but it did not't. The little girl turned around and looked into the wet eyes of her grandmother and hugged. There were no words that was needed for anyone on earth to tell me what they said, I broke into tears. I could no longer escort them. My bike stopped, I stood at a distance onlooking a future where I would be in his place. The funeral ended with the a reading from bible, declaring the truth that he believed in "O death, where is your sting? O, grave where is your victory?" A bewildering and strange victory call at the onset of what seems to have been a defeat. Aren't you glad that you have been able to breath till the end of this? Aren't you glad that another day was lived?
"Well, yes, ma'am, I do... I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count. "
God bless you.
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