"Ruin is a gift; ruin is the road to transformation".

Where are the Men?

                     

It was Sharon who brought it to my attention.. “Craig your one, of only a few guys here” , I looked around sure enough a peppering of guys amongst a audience of women. My worst nightmare had come true, the butt of every male joke, and to boot Sharon and a friend thought it was a great joke.

The movie; “EAT PRAY LOVE” starring Julia Roberts. I’m still ticked at the promotion guru's who never warned it was a chick flick. What the heck,  I’ve paid and I’m getting my monies worth, besides it can’t be that bad can it? CONFESSION I enjoyed it, does that mean I’m becoming an all metro-male?

It's said “behind every cloud is a silver lining”?  I reckon that’s true, at least in my experience, every good bad & ugly thing that happens God provides a silver lining, there’s something there if you just look. Back to my Chick Flick, feeling self conscious and now admitting to loving the movie. Ahh who cares what people think. For me there was one line among many brilliant lines that stood out.  

Julia Roberts is in Italy (an amazing place) the camera pans over the ruins of Rome, if you’ve been there you’ll know ruins litter the city. I got to thinking, like my life I have ruins that litter the citadels of my soul, some just innocent errors of judgement, some mistakes I’m just fully ashamed off,  safe in the knowledge that Jesus Loved and died for me because of those very ruins.

So there’s this amazing line as you see all these ruins.  "Ruin is a gift; ruin is the road to transformation".

WOW!!! What a line, what a truth, behind every cloud there really is a silver lining .. God uses everything and wastes nothing.

So here it is, I had a ruinous situation, which I didn’t think would ever lead to any chance of transformation or any good thing. Today I am grateful to God for not only the personal transformation and spiritual formation this has caused in me, its made me a different person on the inside and the outside. Through friends support and huge amounts of prayer, not only is God transforming relationships but is in the process of “Restoring what the locusts have eaten” .. God never does things by halves.

So I’m in this chick flick, sorry bro’s and this one line has been reverberating around in my head  space ever since:  "Ruin is a gift; ruin is the road to transformation".  

I never thought a ruinous situation could be a gift, but I guess in the hands of the creator of the universe everything’s possible. 

Grateful to everyone mostly to God !!