I Choose to Fly
Birds have wings, some bigger than others, and some smaller. However in the end, even if the bird has the biggest wings yet it doesn’t have the will and faith to fly, it doesn’t get to soar. Birds don’t fly because they have wings; they have wings because they fly, just as a person can choose not to use his heart if he doesn’t have the will in himself to love, just as a person can choose to be holy, choose to be happy, choose to be in the right no matter what.
In Genesis, it was clear how God’s creations are holy, because they are in their rightful place. However, human beings remained to be the creatures with a vague purpose, such as to have dominion, freedom and conscience. But in the end, being in love, in truth, in goodness and beauty is where man should dwell in. These are his wings, for each man has a capacity to love and dwell in the good, each man has a choice to use his wings or pretend he doesn’t have them. Adam and Eve were born of love, but in the end, they chose to refuse the good. It is indeed confusing since the serpent sugarcoated and intertwined the goodness and the evil. However, there are a lot of things that humans don’t understand and in the end, it is Who sees all things who has that supreme wisdom. We see a lot of things as human beings but we have to admit that we are limited and we can’t comprehend everything that happens everywhere. Why did my first love leave me? Why am I alone? Why did my dad die? What is my future? Will I die today? And at the end of the day, even if we close our eyes, there is no assurance that we will wake again and that in it is an act that we lift up to God.
People are always given an opportunity to fly; every person has wings that can make them fly, majestic in their own special ways. However, this flight is neither boastful nor arrogant, if anything it is simply an instrument of holiness and a symbol of God’s greatness and goodness. These people that fly are holy and therefore set apart from others for God[1], these people are special and use their uniqueness to represent beauty, truth and love to harness the order, which is planned out by God.
The order is something that we cannot see, the bigger picture; as there are things that we cannot see if we do not fly and trust in God. We can be great. People can be wonderful, if they choose to jump and spread what God has given them; the ability to love in a personal and unique way[2], they will be magnificent.
Moses wasn’t a special exceptional person but because of God, he was made inspirational, because of his will to serve God because he became the vessel, because he chose to be holy. A bird can cease to fly but still have wings and a person can keep on breathing even if doesn’t really live; what is life without love? And it is only through letting go their making that undeterminable leap of faith do people soar and don’t drop down and crash. They live through life. Moses was scared. He gave so many reasons just so that he could prove that he cannot deliver what God is asking of Him. He was certain that he couldn’t[3]. However, in the end, Moses realized that he wasn’t the one who was going to show the truth to the Egyptians, it was God. And in the end, he was able to liberate the Israelites. Moses learned that the focus was not on Him, it was who He was representing and because of this, He was able to illuminate the greatness of God.
I never knew that I could step up and be a president of an organization with a rich history, brilliant members and former officers. I didn’t have enough faith in myself that I could pull through leading this organization in its 104th year of service. It pained me to say yes to God, I had so many doubts and yet His calling for me was clear and His encouragement reached me. I cannot say that the organization is still alive because of me, but I know that my opened heart and mind, that let the Holy Spirit in gave me the strength and the courage to make decisions and to serve the best way my God made unique wings know how. Alongside this, it was God who guided my wings to fly the right way, my lips to speak the right words, and the understanding to properly make decisions. As I look back to the seemingly short now but highly stressful semester and half a semester, it is unbelievable that I am still in one piece, smiling and strong. I know that I wasn’t and am not alone. And I know that I can do more things. I can be beautiful and magnificent if I choose to be holy, choose to have faith, choose to flap my God-given wings, choose to use my God-given heart.
It is so easy to be teary eyed, to be depressed given all the pain, death and torture of the world today. However, being a vessel, there is a time for mourning yet there is a time to act, to feel God and to know that He is here to use me for greater things. I have a short life, I am as finite as the next person, but that is just not the point. Similar to Moses, I know that there are greater things that I; there is the future. There is more, there is heaven, there is holiness, there is God. And that is what I am living for. We may show trust in the mystery that enshrouds existence…or…deny that trust and instead bank solely on our own shrewdness and calculation and power.[4]I will bank on what is true. I choose to bank for goodness, I choose to fly. (1042)
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