CERTEZA E SERENIDADE

                             

  

                             Tudo coopera para o bem daqueles que amam a Deus.

 

A VISÃO DE EZEQUIEL

Embora seja uma amante do Livro Sagrado - Bíblia - desde minha infância, os Livros de Jó ( 😆 ) e Ezequiel sempre se configuraram como um desafio para minha sensibilidade, emoções e realidade. Em especial a epifania de Ezequiel aniquilava de forma cortante minha concepção de Anjos. Ezequiel, o profeta visionáro, também sentiu-se da mesma forma quando Deus descortinou diante de seus olhos o mundo invisível e suas criaturas sagradas, pois eram realmente extraordinárias.

Hoje, porém o temor foi substituído por fascínio. E de forma extremamente limitada, entendimento.

Os olhos de Deus estão em todos os lugares, buscando os fiéis da terra.

Ao longo dos anos, pintores inspirados pela visão de Ezequiel tentaram reproduzi-la através de seus pinceis. Se tiveram algum sucesso ou não, não é possível dizer. Mas podemos ter uma idéia do assombro que causaram no profeta.

ROSH HASHANA - 2020 / 5781

 SHANÁ TOVA PARA JUDEUS, CRISTÃOS E AQUELES QUE SE ALINHAM COM ESTA LINDA FESTA CRIADA POR NOSSO DEUS CRIADOR.

FELIZ 2020 / 5781!

Ó SENHOR, SENHOR nosso, quão admirável é o teu nome em toda a terra, pois puseste a tua glória sobre os céus!

Tu ordenaste força da boca das crianças e dos que mamam, por causa dos teus inimigos, para fazer calar ao inimigo e ao vingador.

Quando vejo os teus céus, obra dos teus dedos, a lua e as estrelas que preparaste;

Que é o homem mortal para que te lembres dele? e o filho do homem, para que o visites?

Pois pouco menor o fizeste do que os anjos, e de glória e de honra o coroaste.

Fazes com que ele tenha domínio sobre as obras das tuas mãos; tudo puseste debaixo de seus pés:

Todas as ovelhas e bois, assim como os animais do campo,

As aves dos céus, e os peixes do mar, e tudo o que passa pelas veredas dos mares.

Ó Senhor, Senhor nosso, quão admirável é o teu nome sobre toda a terra!

SALMO 8

DREAMS AND MOMENTUM

I posted this text originally in Portuguese on 13th of May, 2016.

That expression caused a small storm in my brain: 'You need to gain momentum'. Huh ?! 'Did I miss anything?'

People nodded in agreement with the speaker, and I, the same, but with my mind full of little questions. It seemed to me that the rest of the lecture on Dreams and Purpose had that statement as its central axis, and I was itching with curiosity.

My restlessness was not in vain. When I had time, I went to search for that word, a little mystery, which I discovered to be a treasure. It was then that I put the pieces of the puzzle together and understood the difference between dream and DREAM. And how to make the last one HAPPEN.

My research led me to understand that momentum has a lot of what the word suggests, that is, moment and movement. But it is not limited to it. Momentum is a physics concept that has to do with impulse, change. And most essential and significant of all, the strength you put in making the balance tip ‘in your favor’.

But what I also discovered was that the time frame in which one gains momentum requires a pseudo inertia. A quiet moment in the cocoon and the humble crawl of a caterpillar. A good dose of inertia. Yes. But a dignified and effective inertia, enriched by study, preparation, knowledge and reflection, where your dream can be founded on, because where 'there is no foundation, nothing can be built upon…' (Psalm 11: 3) safely. A quiet time where you search to perfect your personal skills and discover abilities that you don't imagine you have on the depths of you. It is also a time of confrontation. The moment of truth, good and 'cruel'. The knowledge of yourself and your TRUE dreams, that is, the dream that was born with you, that was born in your DNA.

This is an essential discovery in the process of gaining momentum, for we often dream about 'the dreams of others', and we end up either not reaching it or when we do, we get frustrated, because they were never ours. It did not belong to us, nor did it possessed us. It was who knows, just a suppressed envy, a childish desire and maybe even an ambition implanted in us by another 'frustrated' with their own never achieved dreams. An alien 'chip', the product of a parental abduction.

Sometimes, it is difficult to reach this stage of personal authenticity for various reasons, such as pressures and external tensions that do not let us hear ‘the voice of our guts’. I really like the word 'guts', which I recently rediscovered in the Sacred Book in a new and different perspective and meaning, and in which in all its references is connected to noble feelings of love, kindness, and even of our true expression in the world.

In the West we relate noble feelings ( or not so noble ) to the heart, a muscle that pulsates involuntarily, but in the Bible the guts, - that's our intestinal, inner parts, and that is often only remembered by us when we have indigestion or when we think about our excretory function (laughs)  - are, in fact, considered our intimate, our deep, secret place, figuratively 'our heart', and that should, therefore, be probed, intimately known and purified from what does NOT BELONG to us or in us. 

A dream to be a DREAM, has to be visceral. It must be formed and born in our guts, to be ours. God seeds and words must fertilize it in us, to be ours. 

Dreams comes from our secret place, if you dare to know it. And it takes a lot of courage! There is no point in your dreams coming from the heart of another person cause each person has its scope, its direction and contribution to this world. Each person has a different DREAM. One mission.  We donate differently. We are, in essence, a dream of God. And God is original in His creation. So we must dare to live our life and our dreams. Being our original self and soul. 

After the stage of pseudo inertia in which we discover the soul of our dream, we finally engage in the fight to make it happen, since we had gained the extraordinary momentum needed to launch. We will finally get out of our comfort zone and take ownership of the moment to make our DREAMS come true.