Title Thank you for the flower spring breeze
Please watch the movement of heaven and earth quietly these days. After the spring and rainy season, March 6th was a reminder that a sleeping frog would come out. I feel that the blooming spring is right at my doorstep. This year, spring came 10 days earlier, so it looks like spring in the middle of the day, but it is still chilly and cold in the morning and evening.
The wind blows. It is the wind that blows in spring, so we should call it spring wind, but it is not a warm and soft spring wind, but a cold and bitter strange wind. The wind that blows violently and violently around this time every year is called the flower spring wind. Go out in the field and try. Climb the mountain and try to stand in the forest. Standing there, you can see what this wind is doing. It relentlessly shakes, stirs, and breaks branches all over the branches and trees of the forest that are just getting ready for spring. It seems that they are jealous of flowers blooming, so this wind is called the flower spring wind.
However, from our point of view, this wind torments the branches of flowers and trees, so it seems like a very bad wind. This wind has a very important meaning for trees. Depending on how fierce and strong the wind from this flower spring is, it greatly affects the growth of trees that year. The reason is as follows.
Now, the spring energy is rushing under the ice, and the ground melts with the sound of running water. The trees wake up from their long winter slumber that has been withdrawn for months. The roots absorb the nutrients little by little, and the stem must deliver the sap to the tip of the branch. But here's the problem. The trees that had withdrawn during the long winter were not able to function properly due to dead branches, fallen leaves that did not fall off, and accumulated dust. At this time, the wind from the flower spring shakes the roots, stems, and branches of the trees, releasing the muscles of the trees, and wiping away the accumulated wretched things so that the trees can be active.
Therefore, it is something to be thankful for, not something to complain about to the trees.
2. Ухи All kinds of tests that come to believers are winds from the spring of flowers.
In the text, the apostle James says that the various trials that come to believers are like the wind from a spring of flowers in nature. Even though there are difficulties and pains that seem to be about to collapse in our eyes, in the end, he tells us to know that all these are God's providence and consideration to make us believers whole through patience and precious experience of faith. It is a truth we all know well that human beings mature through trials and training. The text tells us to face the trials and tribulations we encounter in life with a clear attitude. It is not an attitude of avoidance or screaming in the face of a test, but rather a good opportunity for the strengthening of one's being, to be greeted with joy and anticipation.
3. Look at this person!
A young man in Roman times. He came from a noble family and received the best education, and despite his age, he was recognized for his powerful ability to receive a special order to detain and arrest people from the country's highest senate. But a test came upon him. It was a test that shook his whole soul. It is < What is the truth of life? What is salvation? > was the question. He met the truth. I know where is salvation? Paradoxically, that truth and salvation was the very man he was destroying. The young man was deeply troubled. Because if he acknowledged the truth he had now realized, all the privileges and honors he now enjoys and the academic reputation he had built up would be completely destroyed.
After a day of deep thought and conflict, he finally made a decision. < To be truthful before the truth! >. And he made his position clear before the supreme senators of the country to whom he had granted privileges. As a result, he was imprisoned, beaten, hungry, thirsty, cold, and naked. He also ended up in prison.
Before his death, he quietly recounts his life in the midst of a quiet stream of majestic energy. < I have come to know all the conventions of life. I am not at all disturbed by wealth or poverty. I know now that my last is over. I was able to keep the mission God entrusted to me well. I am now in holy joy. And what I am most grateful for is that I have been true to myself >.
That is the <Apostle Paul>. The Apostle Paul set the example of being perfected by receiving the <trial> with a happy heart and winning over it. The temptation that came upon him was not resentment, but rather grace. Therefore, the Apostle Paul himself said, "I am what I am by the grace of God".
4. Hermann Hesse's Damian and Richard Bark's The Seagull's Dream
Hermann Hesse, in his autobiographical novel Damian, described the pain, thrill and mystery of a time when he was able to discover a new world with the following famous passage:
< The egg is a complete world. In order for the egg to become a bird, if it wants to leap into another new world, the egg must break its shell. The egg can be born into a new world only when the egg's thick shell overcomes the pain and pain of breaking. The newly born bird can fly toward the god of apraxis>. In The Seagull's Dream, Richard Bark decides to fly when all the seagulls rummage through the garbage in search of food. Challenge your own limitations. It has proven that high-flying birds see far.
5. It is true that the examination itself is difficult for anyone. And you can't even get rid of the exam itself. But our attitude toward that test is up to us.