Thursday, June 25, 2009
When you lose a loved one or a pet...
always remember that God gave His son too...
He will always understand.
11:37 PM
Monday, June 22, 2009
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BLESSED BIRTHDAY to my dear pet!!!I hope that you will...
stay silly!
and crazy!
hug more!
sing more!
have longer hair!
wear ahem more!
eat more haha?!
always be happy!!! :)
never grow up...
learn to express yourself better!
be more busy! (for God though!)
grow in God's love everyday and everywhere...
P.S. I really like sleepovers can we rewind time???
5:13 PM
Sunday, June 21, 2009
I think there are times when we're meant to be articulate, and times when it's just best to shut up. I have apparently yet to recognise this distinction. How tragic. And forcing my will on others? Certainly. Hmm. I don't want to panic sigh. I DONT WANT DONT WANT PLEASE.If one day I should stop asking for hugs, will I then never be hugged?
Part of that stemmed from a distinct tiredness of reaching out to people.
I can't keep hugging all the time.
1:33 AM
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
growing
Rooted in God's love? Are you firmly ensconced within the earth, or desperately grasping at loose rocks? Putting out tendrils, valiantly seeking support. Are you being watered with care, basking in the warm rays of hope? Maybe a storm, a ferocious swirl of temptation and hate might pass by, tugging at your small blooms, trying to make you bend your will. Unrelenting droplets of stress and despair rain down in blinding sheets; the soil beneath you turns into a violent maelstrom. Careless humans step all over you. Will you still bear fruit at the turn of the season?10:06 PM
Monday, June 15, 2009
When there's a crushing weight on your heart, you sort of wish another heart would help bear the burden with you. Maybe there's one, but it's got wings. There's blood too, plenty of it. Or a gracious hand to lift that dumb heart. Yet it might just roll out from under it, a struggly, jerky, sort of spasm. Trying to. No heart will understand. Not even the owner. The creator does, but stubborness and despair do too. And while they're all talking, if they were even concerned, none can understand the heart.6:41 AM
What a friend we have in JesusOne who loves in every way
He will keep what he has promised
You can trust in him each day
Yet why do we still stay so stubborn?
Foolishly held by pride's sway
Please remember He is faithful
And through His grace we all are saved
12:52 AM
Friday, June 12, 2009
PLAYMAXThankful that...
Alan Chuan Yi Noreen Loraine Yonghui were there!
The weather was bright and sunnyyy, and hot haha
Xtreme Team had big strong men whose children can hug in a circle!
Chalk pictures can be used to tell a story of salvation...
A singer can inspire others in unexpected ways...
There were games and more games!
Many people had the chance to play together, and hear the gospel :)
There are faithful people who serve relentlessly and do God's work...
Jiayou!!!
10:35 PM
Thursday, June 11, 2009
PLAYMAX tomorrow! Excited-nervous-lookingforward-anxious-ahhh!Watched Monster vs Aliens today! LOVE IT:) Maybe I just like this kind of stuff, but it was really hilarious!!! Like Kungfu Panda and Madagascar and Wall E...
I think I'm still laughing at some of the things they said. B.O.B stands for Bicarbonate Ostylezene Benzoate (I keep thinking of him as OOZE) and he's really charming haha! His lack of a brain... that is. And his silly obsession with jelly and Derek is driving me nuts. I like the Insectosaurus... it looks super huggable and adorable and its mesmerized by bright lights!!!! : D I want to watch it again!!! And again and again and ...
Dakishimeitai dakishimeitai dakishimeitai~
Will careless words make you love a person less?
11:09 PM
1 Peter 1: 3-9
Praise to God for a Living Hope
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. I'm going to memorise this!2:46 AM
MISS YOU : DNo, I miss you more!
I miss you more than you think you do...
Still miss you more!!!
Miss you with my whole heart! <3
My whole heart's missing...
*exasperatedddd* (:
12:29 AM
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Why does God allow suffering?I can't count the number of times I've been asked this question, and the number of times I've tried unsuccessfully to answer it. It would be easy to say that our human understanding is painfully limited and therefore several answers remain out of our grasp but that hardly satisfies anyone, myself included.
When I look at the question again, I seem to note several assumptions. Firstly, the subject used is God - which implies the presumption that God does exist. Secondly, the use of the word "allow" suggests that this subject - God - is omnipotent, all-powerful, and in absolute control of the universe. Thirdly, this subject must be good and kind for suffering is something evil that surely a being who is good all through will not condone. Then I get confused, because suffering has many definitions, and while the general impression is one of utter negativity and embodies pain, suffering does have a tendency to result in lessons.
There's the argument that God allows suffering because we ultimately learn lessons from it. Then some will argue "What about meaningless suffering?" Is our puny human mind too narrow-minded and short-lived to be able to comprehend God's ultimate purpose? Or in some cases, are we too caught up in the pain and devastation caused by the suffering that we fail to be enlightened as to the bigger meaning and purpose behind it all?
This leads to the question "Is God unfair that he allows only some to suffer?" Is suffering measurable? Is there an extent of misery and despair that an individual goes through? Such things can never be put on a scale, it is simply absurd, yet everyone has very different definitions of the word, based on past experiences and exposure to the real world. I don't think there exists someone who can or will say that they have never suffered in life. But then why are we judging God's impartiality by human standards? I find it intriguing that the human mind persistently tries to fit God in a box, and blatantly ignore the fact that the box is our minds. Another futile attempt at defining God in human terms.
Another argument would be that "God allows suffering because of our own sins." It is true that in the Bible because of the first sin, God allowed pain of childbirth to enter the world, and cursed the land. Following that logic, I think we would more than deserve the amount of suffering in this world. I think's there's truth and false in this question, maybe because of the way it's phrased, but I wonder why people seldom scrutinise their own lives for the answer.
How much of our suffering is brought on by our own human hands? When I read about the bloody Holocaust, the World Wars, the genocides, acts of terrorism, nuclear devastation, the question "Why does God allow suffering" seems to me oddly ironic; Is humankind trying to blame suffering on a divine entity? On a not-so-related-note though, I think it is sad when the number of deaths or wounded reported becomes nothing more than a statistic to feel shock over, bemoan for about a minute, then recorded to be part of nothing more than a human event. Sometimes when I hear about such things over the news or read about them, I try to remember that every one of these people had a father, mother, just like I do, and that they used to sleep, live, breathe in the same air that I do everyday. The term "Man-made suffering" is not new. If we were to really argue to the nitty-gritty, I think we would find that very little suffering in this world is not linked by some way or another to human action.
Why then does God not just wave His hand and destroy all suffering? Examine that. If He did that, would He not be destroying free will as well? Everytime He tries to prevent evil, He would be taking away freedom, our freedom to choose between good and evil. The eventual outcome might be good, but then we would just be puppets in this world. (All the world's a stage? Haha)
Why do people ask this question? Are they too fixated by the image that they have of God in their own minds - a good, kindly God who will save them from their troubles? Is the question merely a helpless plea? Are they trying to disprove God? Are they disillusioned with their own lives? Maybe some questions hold different answers for everyone.
There are too many facets to this issue. But I found that Lee Strobel in "The Case for Faith" included something interesting. Prominent British pastor John R. W. Scott:
"I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross... In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I have entered many Buddhist temples in different Asian countries and stood respectfully before the statue of Buddha, his legs crossed, arms folded, eyes closed, the ghost of a smile playing round his mouth, a remote look on his face, detached from the agonies of the world. But each time after a while I have had to turn away. And in imagination I have turned instead to that lonely, twisted, tortured figure on the cross, nails through hands and feet, back lacerated, limbs wrenched, brow bleeding from thorn-pricks, mouth dry and intolerably thirsty, plunged in God-forsaken darkness. That is the God for me! He laid aside his immunity to pain. He entered our world of flesh and blood, tears and death. He suffered for us. Our sufferings become more manageable in light of his. There is still a question mark against human suffering, but over it we boldly stamp another mark, the cross which symbolizes divine suffering. The cross of Christ... is God's only(?) self-justification in such a world as ours."
6:06 PM
Sunday, June 7, 2009
If only, if only, there were some way to keep memories with me forever. The people, the relationships, the laughter, the disappointment, the fleeting impressions, lingering thoughts, love and hearts shared, our service, the tearful prayers, the desperate cries, random and sporadic moments of oh-can-you-please-do-that-again!, grudging smiles...I could go on forever. But then maybe our minds were made to be forgetful - oh how I hate my mind - so that perhaps we can experience afresh things God created and placed purposefully in our existence, and never get tired of living out our lives for Jesus Christ.What an exciting race! I'm going to win this one. :)
11:23 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
I might just be a pre-conceptual scientist.
1:06 AM
Monday, June 1, 2009
Glomp-happy1. Adj. Possessing a nature of being extremely excitable upon the entrance of an acquaintance, friend, or love that has not been seen by the subject for what would seem like a long time for the subject, but is usually considered a short time. Can also describe someone who glomps a lot.
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