i still love to write. i simply write less nowadays. I was reading Gereja Mawar Sharon's devotional just now. this week's topic is on Joseph and Moses. on how God worked through series of unfortunate events in their lives. how they eventually became part of God's redemptive act for their people. well.. not only were they part. they played major roles. but both began their adventure in similar manner. the first few chapters of their heroic journey had similar themes. disappointments, betrayals, desert. both had great dreams. both had their dreams 'killed' even before they get started. both were betrayed by their own people. both had to endure humbling years of mediocrity away from the spotlight. i thought it was interesting that great God-given dreams began with the most unlikely script. they began with tragedies. this is the same pattern that we learn to use in writing heroic tales. maybe that is simply how God does things. maybe those are necess
Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)