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Lighting my Candle

"The soul of man is the candle of God" (Proverbs 20:27) This is a perfect metaphor of the relationship to God. We, humans, work to prepare the candle. We do our best to create a good candle to offer to God, so that he may, at the proper time, lite it. While waiting for this to happen we should  pray/ask for His Intervention and continuously work on ourselves in order to keep improving. It doesn't matter how good we are: it's not a granted result that God will lite our candle. The right time it's all up to Him! I summarised the process: 1. Building the Candle (Your Part) ​You cannot light a flame without a physical vessel. "Building the candle" means doing the practical, human work to be and become the best of you. The Wax: represents your character traits—even the "messy" ones. ​The Wick: represents your will and your daily efforts. ​The Placement: means putting yourself in the right environment to be "lit." 2. The Waiting...
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There was soo much going on, within me, this summer, that I ended up writing no words. No reflection was possible as it was, and still is, an intense and fast process, where whatever I could state one morning, in the evening it grew further into something new. A sprout that has begun to stretch and expand at an unimaginable speed, leaving me overwhelmed and in awe.

But one thing I can now say: in spite of the challenging intensity I enjoyed it utterly. My physical health got even better and some annoying psychosomatic problems that I developed during my reclusion in the almost nine years I spent with my schizophrenic mother are practically over now. And I got tanned, splendidly tanned, I walked a lot, enjoying the life I felt increasing within me. 

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