Are you a cracked pot?

With this odd tile youth group this past Saturday had us taking a closer look at ourselves and at each other. We began with the reading of a simple story of 2 water pots. Click here to read the full story. The point is that despite our faults, which are numberless, we can still be used in the service of Krishna. Actually our very faults can be turned into something wonderful.

We played a little game where we said if we were at sea in a ship wreak with only one life jacket we had to motivate why the person to our right should get it. The reasons were numberless! We than had a look at our own lives, where we tried to do something that we are not really good at yet the results were something wonderful. Pooja described how with the help of Srila Bhakti Caitanya Maharaja she is now chanting 16 rounds (Pooja is 10), Kiran described his first book distribution attempt (which is actually how he found his calling in life – a salesman) Pranisha described how fasting on ekadasi became so easy with the help of her devotee aunts. (Pranisha even dry fasted for Nirjal ekadasi despite the enticing breakfast prepared on that Saturday morning) Caitanya Prabhu described how from never being able to talk to an audience he was put in the position where he found that it wasn’t so bad (We see Caitanya Prabhu every Sunday confidently addressing the crowd).

So you see anything is possible if we just put our minds to it. Krishna is our protector and he will guide our sincere attempts.