Ersyl Jay, my nephew, was two and a half years old when this incident happened. He so much love the Power Rangers. He would always make an improvised cape out of a blanket or a towel and ran around the house shouting “Power Ranger!” He knows when it is shown on tv and would patiently look forward to it every time.
It was one Sunday morning. After the mass, I told my sister we will drop by the Perpetual Euchristic Adoration (PEA) before going home. She told her son about it and added that he pray for his Ate to get well from flu. Ersyl just said, “Sige, mangayo ko damu-damu nga power!” (Ok, I will ask lots and lots of power!) True enough, to everyone’s surprise inside the PEA, he loudly said his prayers for the healing of his Ate and for the powers that he wants.
Smart kid indeed. Being one of the Power Rangers, who already has powers, he is aware that he still needs more, and he just knew exactly whom to ask!
I wonder if we always act like him also? Maybe sometimes. We think we are good enough to handle our problems. We think that we are mature enough to decide, that we have all the means to provide for our needs and others. But then we only discover that all we have is nothing but pride. We are so proud enough that we forget we are making a God of ourselves. We forgot that we are just human beings and has lots of limitation. That we can not control all the situations around us, like the people, weather, time and etc. Eventually we become impatient. We blame ourselves for making mistakes and wrong decisions. We tend to look down on ourselves. We think it is the end and we become hopeless. We become too engrossed with solving our own problems that we forget that there is someone else who could help us and make things better if not solve the problem for us.
We forget where to ask more power, or we even don’t think we need some more. We become self sufficient and refuse to think we need others help. We think we are good enough to handle our problems. We failed to see that some problems really have no solutions. Some problems are not for us to solve but we have made it on our own to solve them. We fail to see that problems or conflicts just exist for a purpose. However equipped and powerful we think we may be, we are still powerless in God’s eyes. Whatever successes we have, He had the greatest contribution in it. It is not all ours.
We are created with an innate longing for God. But oftentimes because of our own pride we refuse to acknowledge this cry in our hearts. We so much depend on ourselves that we forget about our Creator. We forget to see that the only thing that we need to do when all things fail is to…
LET GO AND LET GOD!
