The story behind the faces...
Look around you look at the faces that you see..... the smiles..... the lines, the  pain..... each carries a story that goes beyond time and place..... Take the little chubby lad at the playground, who never joins the others to play..... what could be on the mind of such a young child?........the mother who all of a sudden begins to cry...makes you to wonder if you had said anything wrong to trigger a hidden pain....
We all carry stories behind the smiles....... the child who does not know his father because he disappeared before he was born......... the child who finds it hard to understand why the father chose for his job above the family....... or the father who spends more time out with 'friends' than with the family........ or the mother who is stuck with guilt from the past........the wife married yet not loved...... the un/documented migrant who is lost in the system......... the young man with lost dreams.......the wandering homeless .... the caregiver hanging on the thin thread of hope.......lonely is the one who sees.......those who carry the pain for the injustice around them.......the chase for fame that leaves one empty and restless.........the once active mind now imprisoned in a paralyzed body. The list is unending as you take a peep behind the faces around you. What is the story behind your face?.....rejection..... betrayal........ disgrace... . despair ..... fear .?

Look at the gentle face of Jesus......... can you read the story behind his face? ......look at his piercing eyes inviting you to sit at his feet and learn from him ...... he was also despised, .......rejected,........ betrayed,.. mocked ...denied........ the lover yet unloved........ the beggar knocking at hearts........the prisoner of love waiting for your visit........ the provider yet denied.......the creator who allowed to be mistreated by his creation .......see him hanging on the Cross........hear his cry for thirst for your soul....... so that his death will not be in vain........see his face disfigured by pain.........a man of sorrows......upon him was the chastisement that made us whole ...... by his stripes we are healed! No one suffers alone even if you feel alone right now. now....no story is new....... they are only understood in the light of His story....... we may be granted glimpses but full understanding is to be totally immersed in Him then it will no longer be you who lives but Christ in and through you; for you can do all things because of Him who strengthens you.
What is there that Jesus could have done that He did not do? ..... how much more pain must He have borne  for you to understand His love for you? There is no pain on earth that He has not felt ...... If you hang onto Him and not give up,  then you will find meaning in your story in the light of His...... we are all bleeding from infested wounds..... and He the Wounded Healer desires to make us whole in body, mind and soul.......