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♪ 'Inside of me there are two wolves ♪
♪ image of good and image of evil. ♪
♪ They are fighting with ♪ ♪ each other all the time ♪
♪ The winner is the one I feed'. ♪
The Two Wolves
EPISODE 3 IMPOSSIBLE
All his life was an endless story of impossible things.
Midrashes say that when he was born, his father had to hide him in a rock cave
from those who wanted to kill him.
For 14 years was he growing up with the assistance of angel Gabriel
who was feeding him with a milk from his small finger.
Later when he was to be thrown into a furnace for his the-only-God faith,
when even the Satan came to eject him into the furnace,
Lord God sent His angels to rescue him
and made a really bizarre garden out of this furnace.
The older he was the more Lord God was proving to him
that what's impossible is possible.
He let him leave home and taught him how to free from his despotic father.
And finally when he was old enough
not to imagine he would be able to have a son,
and also for his wife it was beyond all expectations
to bocome a mother,
then their son was born.
Obviously it's about Abraham - the father of our faith.
A man who was supposed to be a prototype,
the first believer in all history,
the first to believe genuinely,
the one we all derived from,
was tought the faith by God being exposed to a streak of the impossible.
God was convincing him through all his life:
what's impossible is possible.
In order to be people truly believing
we need to answer a question: what does it mean to be a believer?
Personally, I don't think it's about
those unquestioningly accepting all articles of faith,
knowing all about everything, having no hesitations,
for whom nothing raises any doubt.
As for me, the man of faith is the one who believes
that the impossible may become possible.
It's a man who can see that it will never work out for him,
that everything simply says: impossible,
but suddenly it just happens.
It's a man who, being absolutely convinced nothing is going to change,
and there is nothing we can do to make a thing better,
is trying to persuade himself: 'Maybe I am not able to to this
but You, God, will manage it.
It's because You are the master of the impossible'.
As for me, it's a man believing in what's impossible.
When I take a look at the history of Abraham and Sarah who is infertile
and I can see that being of such an advanced age
she was able to give a birth,
I wonder what I am infertile of,
what I am not able to give birth to
just as I am, without any miracle.
And it turns out there is a long list.
I'm not able to love, I'm not able to be patient,
I'm not able to wait, I'm not able to trust,
I'm not able to hope that everything around is good.
And what then?
I have a great support in my family - my wife and children,
but also the community we belong to for almost 20 years
where I've got a chance to experience that I am fertile,
that after years of not being able to love on my own,
not accepting myself as I am,
suddenly a tiny hope appears, more and more love for the other,
understanding towards the other
that it's not the way I thought it was.
There is also something like courage to look upon your life
just the way it is.
When I often think of myself, what's the truth about me
and I hear what anybody else think I am,
particularly my friends, wife and even my children,
there is a huge gap between those two points of view.
and it turns out I am able to accept it.
I can remember how tough it was to talk seriously to my children,
my youngest son, Urban, was six years old...
... seven years old,
and we were listening to a song 'The Two Wolves' when I asked him:
'What do you think of these wolves, my son? Have you ever seen good and bad wolf?'
And then he told me something
which seemed to be unaccepted.
He said: 'Yes, daddy, I have.
You are the one who's feeding the bad one,
and Hans feeds the good wolf'.
Disaster.
My own kid says such words.
I didn't put him right that he hadn't understood it right.
Maybe he understood it perfectly. That was very thought-provoking.
It's impossible my boy was wrong since he sees me exactly in such a way.
It's time to convert.
It's my time to start converting
so that my son would be able to say one day:
'Dad, the good wolf has won inside you'.
I suppose the evil wolf,
deceiving us saying: 'impossible',
always tries to do it in two ways.
Usually, he says 'impossible' when we really care about something
we desire the most.
Probably you've got such things of your interest
wishing you accomplished them
and still haven't plucked up the courage to do it
because of your fear of the impossible.
'I'm just not able, it's too hard, all around is not in favour'....
... and whatever else.
Don't trust this evil wolf that is constantly repeating 'it won't work'.
It will!
Not because you're able to do this. But thanks to the Good Wolf.
And Good Wolf, as the Gospel states, is a master of the impossible.
What's impossible for people is possible for God.
The second way of his deceit is to make us believe
that we are not able to get out of evil we've settled in,
that we are involved in such situations, such stories, such sins,
such addictions and such fetters
that eventually we trust this silent wolf's whisper:
'it's impossible you take your head up the water surface,
impossible to live,
impossible to free yourself from evil'.
It is possible!
There is a Good Wolf who's the master of the impossible.
There is one task for you today -
try to think of all those things you consider impossible.
Ask the Good Wolf:
'Show me You are the Master of the impossible'.
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produced by STACJA 7.PL recorded and edited by Marcin Jończyk
English subtitles by Basia Salawa