Once in your life, you must rely on someone. Human shoulders and hearts are fragile, delicate, and limited. Therefore, you need to find a shoulder that can never let you down. You must embark on a journey to seek God. You need to understand that God has appeared on human paths. We celebrated His birth in recent days. Go forth, and you will find Him. You will see that when you lean on Him and His word, no one will be able to break you or move you from your place. You will be assured that death cannot threaten you, and then you will not be afraid when you hear that you have a terminal illness, when you lose your best friend or dearest love, when you feel that failures have broken your heart, and that illness is consuming you. You need to rely on the One upon whom the entire universe rests, the One upon whom the violet under the bush, the snowflake, the shimmering light of the stars rely; the One upon whom children, parents, the elderly, the dying, and the newborns of this earth depend.
This excerpt is from Tomislav Ivančić’s book Oases of Life. Translated from Croatian and prepared by Ivo Grgić.
