Sabbath Thoughts
By Vicki Kathleen
WAVES Board Coordinator

A Child's Dream:
Becoming Our Best

When I was a child, I often dreamed of being someone like those I so admired: Mary, Joan of Arch, or Rachel, Rebecca, or any one of the beloved servants whom God blessed with His vision and presence in their lives.  I wanted to be like them, because I believed that if I were, God would also talk to me, and want me as well.

Of course, we see with the eyes of a child, with visions of what could be grand and beautiful, even in the “pain” of things. We do not understand or fully know unless also in pain, which I often experienced both mentally and physically. When I grew older, I lost the faith that a child has, that God would also choose me if I was but “good enough”.  And it took some time to learn and realize that each day we try our best—is being “good enough” for our Father in Heaven. All He asked was for me to do my best with what I had in the moment.

However, being a bit of a perfectionist, I longed to serve God in my own way. I had to do my own life’s walk, to work past the boundaries and disappointments which life brings to all of us.  And I believed that one day God would answer my prayer to serve only Him, becoming one in the University of learning to serve others, with all who were ordained before the world to do so. I also understood that I had much growing to do in my own journey before I would be ready for such a calling, so I worked toward my own healing and understandings of life here.

When we are given a gift, we also have great responsibility, which is not always easy.  God will test our resolve to serve him in ways only he knows will truly test who and what we have become. In that moment of choice, will we walk through the fires or turn away, doing our own thing rather than what God has chosen us to perform? Will we follow him no matter the cost? Either way, we have the power of our choices.

Our callings or missions in life may not come with grand robes of honor, or hearth of riches—at least not the kinds that man would portray as being successful. But God’s idea of such things are of his kingdom, not that of false gods to follow and worship with the tinsel of pettiness, glittering lights or fast cars. Things of clay are dust, just as the tool we use for our body also returns to dust. It is only our Spirit which is perfect, and the only thing which returns to God that counts, so it is then perfect sense to follow the needs of our spirits over that of mortal comforts.

It does come with the need to dedicate ones life to what is right, good, charitable, compassionate, and to become educated in the ways of truth, then practicing those truths to the best of our abilities. And that does not come without a dose of sufferings either. There are many road blocks along the way, tests to over come in our very natures of being mortal.

Such an education will demand much of our time, for each moment alters the rest forever. Nothing will look the same, smell the same, and exist in the same way as we once viewed it, or understood it to be with our mortal eyes, for we are now seeing through our immortal yearnings. Not one thing will remain unaltered for us, for we have begun to remove the rose colored glasses and exchanged them for the vision behind the light of God, a grander point of view! 

We also then, become less afraid, if not totally unafraid of mortality and what it can do to us. Like death for example: man would make our death our most powerful fear, when in fact it should be our most powerful joy! We then walk with the knowing that God will only bring us home when it is time to do so, and in the mean time…there is simply too much work to be done. What is there to fear in death anyway? We just go home, and what is so bad about that? There is not one second of our consciousness that is lost! I would say, not living to our full potential is something to fear the most!

God knows my own potential, and so I must learn to be open to his will. I can be the vessel into which he can pour many things, if I but act, prepare and do according to his plan for me, and nothing will be held back from me in the end! I am a royal work in progress, and in his hands hold the key to being all I can be. Only we hold our selves back from the glory and wealth of spiritual progression. And since we hold that key, isn’t it time then to place it into the lock and turn it to open the very gates of Heaven itself—indeed—God’s door, so that he can walk into our hearts and lives, so that we can dwell with him forever?

He unchained our thoughts in regard to our deaths by showing us there is no end to our existences. It is up to us how we serve God, our own growth and others in his name.

May we begin to see the masterpiece God created in each of our spirits and hold it as a sacred quest while we walk this earth. To serve others is also to serve ourselves, but most important, it serves to let God bless us for eternity. And that is the child’s dream come true.

Your loving sister in Christ,
Vicki Kathleen/Tangski
WAVES Board Coordinator