However, while trying to think of a blog name which adequately describes my life goals, I could not help but be overwhelmed. I have surrendered my life to my God who has brought me out of despair and death, so many of my thoughts were centered on the following idea: God gives life. As one who has been made alive, I have been given the privilege to carry this hope to those who are still languishing, lost, and blind.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer spoke of this concept in his poem "Joy and Sorrow". He states that as sorrow becomes slowly revealed and its features are more clearly seen, most onlookers gaze for a moment then turn away, hard-hearted. Bonhoeffer continues to explain that this moment when sorrow in its brutality is unveiled, is the moment in which the compassionate, the mothers, the friends and brothers swiftly act.
"Loyal hearts can change the face of sorrow, softly encircle it with love's most gentle unearthly radiance."May it never be that I turn away from sorrow, but that I face it with defiance, knowing that the Almighty God is the One who fights for me.
As one who desires to carry Love's radiance to the far reaches of the earth through the means of aircraft, I thought it would be appropriate to consider myself (and my piloting) a mere vessel by which the grace of God will travel.
I pray that you, the reader, will clearly perceive this vision and join me on this journey.
- May Love's radiance fill the Earth
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