A new year has begun, namely the year of 2010 A.D. I started off the new year with excitement, a sense of something new in my life. Certainly, there are certain hopes accumulated for this year, and there are some changes promised as well. I'm eager to see how this year will turn out to be, but the bottom line is as our youth pastor preached a week ago: this is going to be a good year! Not necessarily easy, but a good year, for that is the promise we have in Jesus Christ.
The song Viimeiset veneet has reached its third part in this post, and there are two more to go. After the wonderful description of the nature in the first two stanzas, the song begins to touch the lives of us human beings, relationships, challenges, and eventually the eternity.
Here are the words of the third stanza:
Useimmat päivät pian unholaan vaipuu, joitakin kauemmin muistella saan.
|: Kipein ja suloisin niistä jää kaipuu, yhdessä jotka me taivalletaan. :|
And quick translation into English: Often our days go by into the vague past, but there are some days that I will not forget. The most painful and most wonderful of those moments will be yearned, by those of us who tarry along together.
Unfortunately I'm afraid I couldn't fully express the feeling of the stanza in English, hopefully you got the idea. This verse basically says, that our lives are often lived only looking ahead and seldom thinking back to the days past. This ways we tend to forget the treasures of the moments spent with each other, and maybe we cannot even cherish the now -moment we have. When we do think back, the days and events we remember are often those most painful or most wonderful to us. Of course we'd like to remember only the wonderful moments, but it is the painful ones that mark the growth we have had.
This verse, as well as the whole song, is really expressing how I feel about life. I think back to my past, and often memories bring a smile to my face. Sometimes, the painful events of the past makes me shake my head and cry in my heart: oh Lord, wish I could have been closer to you at that time, wish I would not have done that or said that. By myself, the memories just bring smile or inner cry, but when spending time with old friends, memorizing old times together, there are laughter and a deep sense of fellowship. Life, lived with good friends, is truly a blessing from God.
When the year changes, we often want to think back to the one past and look ahead to the new one beginning. It is amazing that my Lord is with me, pointing to me the treasures behind me, as well as guiding me to the new ones ahead. With Him I can rest assured that there will be joy, and will be pain, but in the end I will be with Him, sharing what we've experienced and gone through together. In the end there will be eternal laughter, and a deep sense of fellowship. I guess that is the fellowship and living style Jesus wants us to have, and that's why He said He is not calling us his servants anymore, but friends. "What a friend we have in Jesus ..."
One remark I've noticed in my life, it has been much easier to relate and have fellowship with friends who are also friends of Jesus; it has been much more difficult to have real and deep fellowship with friends who are not friends of Jesus. It is sad, but I believe that those friends can also become friends of Jesus, in which case we will experience deeper connection between each other, and have laughter and fellowship with Jesus for eternity.
Not a minor issue.
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