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If conventional cars right now have gas station to refill their exhausted fuel, electric cars will also have electric station to recharge its energy. How it works? Just imagine our laptop. Our laptop has battery to retain electric power that can make our laptop be able to operate. When power of battery is almost exhausted, we'll connect our laptop to the wall plug to recharge.

The concept of electric car recharging is same with laptop. Electric car will have battery that can retain electric power for several weeks. When the battery power is almost exhausted, the driver can recharge the power in the nearest electric station.



Now this concept has already implemented! See this!

One day
Someone give me a garden
The garden is named “Life Garden”
He says to me,
“I give this garden to you
And also, I give you these seeds
This one is love seed, this one is hope seed, and this one is faith seed
Grow them become trees!
Remember, someday I'll be back and see your garden!”

I receive his gift happily
Then I plant those seeds in the best part of my garden
In first days, I notice their growth very much
Watering them, giving them fertilizer
“That man says, once I am successful to grow them,
They would become very beautiful and strong trees.
He says, the trees would yield so many colorful and delicious fruits
Even they will be too much for you to eat all alone!
So you will like to share the fruits with others
Birds will make nest in the top of your trees
He also says, once I am successful to grow them,
The roots will have the ability
To retain fresh water
You can enjoy it later, believe it!”
Wow! That sounds wonderful!

Some months passed
Until someday I found
So many strange weeds, I never plant before
Anxiety, anger, fear, grudge, lust, spite
I immediately clear them away
Some weeks later
Those weeds appear again
Around my small love, hope, and faith plant
That begin to grow up
Again, I clear those weeds

But, do you know
Every some weeks, those weeds continually appear and appear!
Then I see my love, hope, and faith trees
Even though I notice them so much
Their growth is still very slow
What! I feel like giving up

Then I don't notice my garden anymore
Until someday, someone pass in front of my garden
“Hmmm...this garden is so crowded with weeds
Who is the owner of this garden?
Why are they so lazy?”

Ah! His word makes me realized
When I don't notice my life garden anymore
My life garden would be seen so bad
For everyone passed in front of my garden
Then I rise up, and again clear the weeds away
And I see my love, faith, and hope plant
Oh, some of their leaves seem to be withered!
I remember the man who gives me this life garden
I remember all his words

How fool! Don't be lazy!
I hope many things but do less
What for?
If I am lazy, my garden will be also useless!
Clearing weeds away every some weeks,
Isn't it also part of my duty?
Waiting and noticing the growth of my love, faith, and hope plant
Isn't it also part of my duty?

Just remember, when they grow become trees
They will bless me, bless everyone who pass my garden!
Surely, everyone who see my garden would say,
“Wow! What an amazing garden!
The owner of this garden, must be strong and patient person,
Just like those tall, strong, and fruity trees!”

I am a clod of clay in the road edge. Everyday all I can do is just seeing people go back and forth, waiting somebody for using me. But day by day, everybody just passes in front of me and never consider me. I feel so sad. I want to be useful but I am powerless.

Till someday, somebody come into me and put me into his container. I feel so happy because my waiting moment is ended now. At least I will be more useful in the man's hand rather than in the road edge.

In the man's house, the man immediately puts me into twisting heating machine. I feel shocked because of such deed. Then I spontaneously shout, “Stop!! Please!!” But apparently the man doesn't hear me. Many times I shout and shout, but the man never hear me. I feel so inconvenient, so hot and dizzy. I feel regret, I want to come back into the road edge because I can't bear it.

After several times, the process is stopped. I feel so relieved, but just for a while because the man then put me into a very cold place. The temperature, brrr....I want to shout but my sound is frozen. Why does the man do it? What's my fault? Why do I must experience this?

Several days passed and the cooling process is over. The man puts me outside the cold place, then carves me with his special tools. It hurts me much, during the process I always shout and shout. Afterward, the man put me together with other beautiful cups, bring us to the shop, and display us in the shop window. When I stare the window glass, I feel so surprised. “Wow, so beautiful...is it really me? Am I dreamed?”

Customers that see me said astonishingly, “Wow, this cup is so beautiful!”

Then I said, “I understand now why I must experience hot, dizzy, cold, and hurt. There were so hard for me, but they make me as who I am now. Thanks, man.”



That illustration is the same with our life. We often pray to God, ask God we can be a better person, be useful for our surroundings. God allows the problem come into our life, so we can be strong after we pass it. Sometimes we don't understand why we experience such bad condition. Sometimes we feel life is so unfair. Sometimes we think, we don't do anything wrong but why do the problem happens into our life?

Believe that everything happens in our life is just His plan to make us become stronger and stronger. Even in the process God always takes care of us, never absent to give us strength. God has beautiful plan for each of us, we are born to be His masterpiece. So every moment in our life, just say thanks to God!

Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."