Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is considered by many to be the greatest Russian writer of the 20C, but his sense of calling had not always been clear. His purpose grew in his experiences of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps--a place where he experienced a deadly struggle to write, a miracle of a cure from cancer, a conversion through a Jewish follower of Jesus, and a deepening burden to put "the dying wish of millions" on record:
The one worrying thing was that I might not be given time
to carry out the whole scheme. I felt as though I was about
to fill a space in the world that was meant for me and had
long awaited me, a mold, as it were, made for me alone,
but discerned by me only this very moment. I was a molten
substance, impatient, unendurably impatient, to pour into
my mold, to fill it full, withour air bubbles or cracks, before
I cooled and stiffen.
Later, the true significance of what happened would inevitably
become clear to me, and I would be numb with surprise.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn~
Question to consider:
What space in the world is waiting to be filled by you and for which your past has prepared you for?
Prayer:
Lord, You are good and Your love endures forever. Help me trust You--for the good as well as the difficult, the successes and the failures, the joys and the sorrows of the past. I surrender to Your Voice that whispers to me, 'All is well, and all will be well.'
In Jesus' Name, Amen.
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