Grace Something

i received the following txt message from one of the more decent persons i know yesterday, here it is verbatim:

"Read this nice story:A man experienced being robbed by thieves.. In his diary, he wrote 'let me be thankful first, because they took my purse and not my life;second although they took my all, it was not much especially my faith; and third, because 8 was I who was robbed, not I who robbed'"

surprisingly, it elicited quite a reaction from me... i guess maybe because i'm trying reflections during this season of lent for the first time.now, we can be forgiven for assuming that the person who was robbed was a Christian. And quite a mature Christian at that, for his reaction to his experience and THAT realization connected with my current favorite quote from GK Chesterton: "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." and somehow THAT set me off to thinking for a bit and set me to reply to my texter with:

"Nice. But you know why[it's been said that] Christianity has been found hard[difficult] and left untried? Because a truly outandout Christian would 'never' be robbed if he was conscious. He would give his brothers[/sisters] everything just to [hopefully]prevent them from sinning against God. Maimagine mo? Hirap 'no? Grabe challenge sa Kristiyano. Ahehe..."

That came out from me! almost unimaginable because my natural reaction to being robbed would be to beat the daylights out of whoever dared do that to me. Which would be the right thing to do, accdg to some circles i go around in. but as my inspiration for this blog states:" Think things through". hopefully i'll always have the courage and honesty to do that^_^. and even more importantly, may i always have the grace to do that and have reflections like these =). Cause honestly, that reply of mine was not 'me'.that was grace speaking. God bless us all in this season of Lent and may we accept the challenge to reflect on what is truly important and what our priorities should be in that regard.