Reflection On " What is That In Your Hand?" Church Service

One of the most touching services I had experienced at my church" CUMC  ". March,13,2016,One of personal addressing message that had been given .It took me to another point to reflect and dive inside of me , searching for answers . A group of questions that help you to understand your purpose and meaning in life .I hurried to come back home , to hold my pen and my journal and started to answer the questions before I lose that moment of inner thinking and mirroring who really Iam or what can I do here till I go home. Again I found myself why not sharing my answers ,maybe someone else can be related to the point Iam encountering and searching for answers as well.So why not writing them down as follow:
1- what are some causes I deeply care about? - the things that get my creative juices flowing :_

•   Freedom of faith and choice
• The value of our life, our life is so precious
• Peace
• Community Development that starts with investing in people and everyone counts
• co-existence and its positive side of strengthening a community for its riches in diversity
• Liberal Arts & Digital Media, their role in reshaping and transforming lives
• Education as a tool to be aware of your community needs
• The most important thing is to know where we are? How we get there? and what is needed in order the change could happen for the best of everyone around
• Acceptance and embracing one another w/o prejudice , bias or discrimination
• Redirection of the negative influences into positive ones 

2- Situations in the community or world that upset me or make my blood boil :-

       So ,this is a very pressing point and here the first thing comes to my mind is injustice , framing , profiling, killing innocents , genocides, inequality , dividing communities , abuse , oppression, rejection , wars and conflicts .There are many issues around the world that break us apart. 

3- Things that make me sad , cry or feel indignant :-

   Things that trigger my past , many unaware of how much blessed they are, judging me continually , I don't fit , don't meet the standards and no guidance of how to meet the standards , being profiled and yet , I keep on walking in the unknown , no answer of why all this could ever happen . Humans breaking humans while building can bring us back to our true humanity .Since Fall 2014 , my life turned very dramatic that it affected me socially and emotionally. Feeling sad that the story of Christ on the cross didn't end . It keeps happening is so many forms . 

4- Issues that I always talk about with my friends:-

  

•   Middle East recent situation
• Peace and socioeconomic status around the world
• Sustainable communities and innovation
• The value of having strong infrastructures in facing fatal crisis 
• Community preparedness , support chains, training and readiness to take a further step towards better solutions
• Individualism within the global system
• Development through Education and Innovation 

   5- what is rising up within me? 

      Writing , research, analyzing , reaching solutions and conclusions within God's eye of view , how can we change lives through mirroring ourselves.

 6- What is awakening in my heart and mind? 

   Using Multi-Media as a transformational  tool toward resetting mind and souls , especially for women and kids who are most vulnerable to be attacked and broken down ---- writing as a path towards understanding and taking action 

7- The place of pain in my story that is intersecting with some places of pain in the world :-

       

      Rejection , Indignation  , two powerful weapons are used to break me down and that is the question " where is our humanity?"

8- What are my next steps? 

  That is where Iam right now . Searching for guidance and serious practical steps to be taken , not to fall in the dark hole of rejection and undermining the human inside of me .We are created in His image ,there is a message needs to be told . We human do value we are not slaves any more , we are not judged by our back ground or who we relate to or the wrong or harm they had done to the world ,stop judging an individual as a human race , we are all His creation and we all need to go back to the path that Jesus established for us ,to be one . One mind , one soul , one body .