It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince)
“God, I’m longing for a soulmate…I had a job, I’m mature enough to have one, please God…” John was asking to God when He was in Manado North Sulawesi (Celebes). He was about 30 years old and had a job in Multi National Contractor Company and had assigned to handle the business in there. He met lots of beautiful natives, but none were ideal to get along with. Many days left, many prayers had lifted up but there’s no sign…
“Go home…you’ll find your wife there, my grandson” Grandma…! I was dreaming, God…is it Your answer? He dreamt his beloved passed away-grandma with white gown come and asked him to go home…someone was waiting for him. His grandma was very close to him but already passed away many years before he got a job. So God, it’s Your answer to my prayers…then he wrote a letter to his sister to find a wife for him, but he didn’t tell anyone about the dream. Miraculously, God opened the way for him to go home. John was called to go back to head office Jakarta. Then John prepared his reports and also hundred blank-wedding invitation cards with him to bring home to Solo, but…he still didn’t know about his would be wife…and the challenges were just begun!
Many incidents hampered his traveled home. The small Dakota airplane was broke down in Ujung Pandang South Sulawesi when he was in the way home to Jakarta from Manado. He had to take another airplane, but God was good when he started questioning again the prayer answer. He met a nice co-pilot who encouraged him about the plan, so he made his mind up. God had made a decision, God made the way… After turned in his reports to head office in Jakarta, he asked permission to go home Solo to see a girl whom would be his wife. Then he took a train to Solo, but again…the incident happened. The train jumped the rails in Secang, urged him to take a bus in the midst of the freezing night. The time was around two o’clock in the morning.
After two days rested, he then with his father went to Griyan Solo to meet a girl, whom his sister told him about. The girl Maria was an elementary teacher. John just got less than a week to know Maria before he had to go back to Jakarta for another duty. So after the meeting, they got in touched to know each other. In the first time, Maria didn’t accept his propose after knowing each other for a while. But John didn’t give up. He kept contact to Maria whilst he was in Jakarta. Prayers and prayers were lifted up to know what God’s plan…but no answer.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince)
“God, I’m longing for a soulmate…I had a job, I’m mature enough to have one, please God…” John was asking to God when He was in Manado North Sulawesi (Celebes). He was about 30 years old and had a job in Multi National Contractor Company and had assigned to handle the business in there. He met lots of beautiful natives, but none were ideal to get along with. Many days left, many prayers had lifted up but there’s no sign…
“Go home…you’ll find your wife there, my grandson” Grandma…! I was dreaming, God…is it Your answer? He dreamt his beloved passed away-grandma with white gown come and asked him to go home…someone was waiting for him. His grandma was very close to him but already passed away many years before he got a job. So God, it’s Your answer to my prayers…then he wrote a letter to his sister to find a wife for him, but he didn’t tell anyone about the dream. Miraculously, God opened the way for him to go home. John was called to go back to head office Jakarta. Then John prepared his reports and also hundred blank-wedding invitation cards with him to bring home to Solo, but…he still didn’t know about his would be wife…and the challenges were just begun!
Many incidents hampered his traveled home. The small Dakota airplane was broke down in Ujung Pandang South Sulawesi when he was in the way home to Jakarta from Manado. He had to take another airplane, but God was good when he started questioning again the prayer answer. He met a nice co-pilot who encouraged him about the plan, so he made his mind up. God had made a decision, God made the way… After turned in his reports to head office in Jakarta, he asked permission to go home Solo to see a girl whom would be his wife. Then he took a train to Solo, but again…the incident happened. The train jumped the rails in Secang, urged him to take a bus in the midst of the freezing night. The time was around two o’clock in the morning.
After two days rested, he then with his father went to Griyan Solo to meet a girl, whom his sister told him about. The girl Maria was an elementary teacher. John just got less than a week to know Maria before he had to go back to Jakarta for another duty. So after the meeting, they got in touched to know each other. In the first time, Maria didn’t accept his propose after knowing each other for a while. But John didn’t give up. He kept contact to Maria whilst he was in Jakarta. Prayers and prayers were lifted up to know what God’s plan…but no answer.
Before he was assigned back to Manado, he went back again to Solo and tried to propose Maria.
“It was an amazing time…God was good, He made miracle! He softened Maria’s heart” John said. Maria’s father agreed about the plan and so did her. John and Maria agreed to get married a week after for preparing the reception and her job transferred to Manado. “It took five weeks to know and marry her” John reminisced about his struggle to have a wife. So after he came back to Jakarta, John brought Maria to Manado. A year later, they went to Papua for another assignment. In this island, they were blessed with 6 children. After about eight years in there, they went back to Solo to raise the children.
God works in His way we can not see. He decides, He provides the way to fulfill His plans.
“It was an amazing time…God was good, He made miracle! He softened Maria’s heart” John said. Maria’s father agreed about the plan and so did her. John and Maria agreed to get married a week after for preparing the reception and her job transferred to Manado. “It took five weeks to know and marry her” John reminisced about his struggle to have a wife. So after he came back to Jakarta, John brought Maria to Manado. A year later, they went to Papua for another assignment. In this island, they were blessed with 6 children. After about eight years in there, they went back to Solo to raise the children.
God works in His way we can not see. He decides, He provides the way to fulfill His plans.
2 comments:
nice post; it really is a mystery whether we can change the course of life or not;
we have no prove about it, until the time when we can see the original script.
God works in His way we can not see. He decides, He provides the way to fulfill His plans.....-AMIEN...
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