A "Black Swan Event" is when the unexpected occurs, causing a huge mindshift and change in how the world works. People never imagined that Black Swans existed, until the discovery of the first Black Swan... (as per book "The Black Swan", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007, that sold over 3 million copies)

Is a perception change the next Black Swan Event? Consider that by changing perception we might change the world. Look at everyday things from different angles. Find beauty in the unexpected...
Change our thinking, change our actions, change our world!

See that all people are part of God's puzzle and have something to give. Black swans do exist. The ugly duckling was actually a swan who needed to discover himself and where he fitted and be who he was meant to be. To the last, the lost and the least, you are beautiful as you are.
May all who visit this page feel God's touch and experience His blessing...

Monday 11 March 2013

An Injury Healed

A child I know has been growing a bean plant in school for science class. Each child in the class has placed a bean to the side of a wet piece of cotton wool in a plastic cup, and have observed the changes to the germinating bean plants day by day. I have popped in occasionally to watch the beans grow. Last week this child's bean plant look a bit frail. The germinating new stem had incurred a small injury, perhaps where too much water had coalesced, rotting the tiny stem where it emerged from the bean casing. I was not sure whether or not the plant would grow, but held hope, as the sprout ahead of the deformity was green and budding. Today I walked into the class and was amazed to see a bean plant that towered above the others, reaching green fingers into the air, as if in triumph. I looked closely and the injury could still be seen, but was being overtaken by the ever thickening stem.

Somehow the growth of this bean plant seems a fit analogy for how an underlying emotional injury may be healed. If you have incurred an emotional injury, and if you then have enough of the right care and a chance to prosper, you can outgrow your injury and overcome adversity. The emotional injury scar may always remain a part of you, but the crippling effect will fade in time.

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